There is nothing fun about queueing to board a plane and then sitting for 17 hours in economy class whilst a fairly large person asks you questions about your childhood and hogs the armrests. This new app will change all that forever.
The fussy readers out there who lose their minds over a missing deelteken here and there will be very pleased that this post has minimal writing, and is all about one picture. A 2oceansviber sent in this pic – taken at OR Tambo airport. It’s so good.
We all assume flying is as safe as anything and with low cost airlines making air travel all the more accessible and affordable, we are all becoming somewhat seasoned travellers. Bet you wouldn’t have expected THIS though…
You would think a pilot would be one of the few people who would be sympathetic to the stringent security measures airports put in place now-a-days, but not his guy! He clearly felt like they were being ridiculous, so he followed suit…
Since November SAA have been charging customers flying from OR Tambo between R50 and R100 for a service that didn’t even exist yet. What is that service? Wrapping luggage in plastic. The service in question was only introduced at the end of last month.
A passenger who was on SAA’s New York to Johannesburg flight on Tuesday, landing on Wednesday morning, has confirmed that SAA are no longer serving dinner on the flight. But that’s just the beginning.
Hijacked plane at OR Tambo. Graeme Smith welcomes baby boy. Dave Matthews hitchhikes to own concert. Radiohead frontman pulls music from Spotify. Controversial king becomes DA member.
Of the 40 cadets chosen for SAA’s cadet programme, not a single white male was selected. Trade union Solidarity is calling it “subsidised racism” while SAA says the company is “obliged to give preference to previously disadvantaged groups.”
Blackberry messenger for iOS and Android. Guptas buying votes with food. SAA gets new planes. Facebook bans social suicide app. Federer cuts his hair. Nigeria in state of emergency. BP/Shell price fixing..
Horse meat found in Tesco. SAA suspends another CEO. Who will be the next pope? North Korea conducts nuclear test. UCT biz school best in Africa, Middle East. More Apple smartwatch evidence.
On Saturday, the Chinese military conducted its first successful test flight of their first domestically made jumbo airfreighter.
According to a report yesterday, employees of Air Chefs, a division of SAA, and the supplier of catering to the airline, are facing disciplinary action following the discovery that they dumped huge amounts of food.
The Annual Airline Safety Rankings have just come out, rating 60 airlines on the number and deadliness of the hull losses (destroyed airplanes) they have suffered in the past 30 years and how they have fared more recently. SAA came 9th. In the world.
State-owned low-cost airline Mango, and Comair, which operates British Airways flights and low-cost operator kulula.com, are chief amongst those that don’t want another low-cost airline operating in South Africa.
1time CEO Blacky Komani recently said that his airline owed Acsa as much as R130 million. As part of cost cutting measures, the company will now retrench 15% of its workforce.
Port strike ‘will sink economy’. Rand in free fall. SAA confirms more resignations. Egypt’s president pardons protesters. New Euro-Zone Aid Fund Launches. Homeowners Get New Rights To Attack Burglars. Why Did Lady Gaga Visit Julian Assange?
A week before SAA is expected to report a financial loss of R1,25 billion, and report that “its liabilities exceed its assets by 359%” its CEO Siza Mzimela has decided enough is enough, and thrown in the towel.
Comair is the first local airline operator to come out and say that it wants a promise that SAA won’t be using its latest R5 billion for domestic operations.
Declare national crisis in education – Jansen. R5bn lifeline for SAA. AB: We let our country down. Gold Fields tells miners to pack and go. Department to probe Nkandla documents leak. Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track.
New SAA chair hits jackpot. Samsung files lawsuit against Apple over latest iPhone. Truck drivers’ strike to intensify. U.S. Judge Lifts Ban on Samsung Tablet. Iran’s currency hits all-time low. There May Be Naked Pics of William, Too.
Cheryl Carolus and six other SAA board members resigned yesterday, plunging the state-vested airline into yet more turmoil.
Somehow SAA has managed to fail to produce its annual report on time – six months after its year-end. Its claiming it needs to address its “immediate financial challenges” before auditors can complete the financial statements.
Lucas Hartong, a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, has asked the European Parliament to cancel South African Airways’ landing rights in Europe over its anti-white hiring laws.
2oceansvibe spoke to SAA this morning to get their official response as to why white males would no longer be included in in SAA’s cadet recruitment programme. This is what the national carrier had to say.
Dreaming of conquering the skies as an SAA pilot? Well, it’s time to get your head out of clouds if you’re a white male because SAA are no longer accepting any more cadet pilot training applications from that particular demographic.
South African Airways is introducing a new check-in baggage policy on September 5, 2012, and it restricts the number of pieces of baggage a passenger may check in, rather than the total weight of the passenger’s checked baggage.
SAA has confirmed that a COPE MP was arrested on board a flight to Mumbai over the weekend. Dirk Feldman apparently got drunk, decided he wanted to leave the plane, and then began fumbling with the emergency door.
Domestically, SAA is at the top of the airline pecking order, an advantage which Nationwide Airlines is claiming they have abused. For that reason they’re suing them, to the tune of R155 million. That’s a lot of flights.
This weekend, the City Press reported that Minister Lulu Xingwana, on being told she couldn’t have her flight seat upgraded from economy to business class, she merely enquired, “whether or not this was because she is a k****r?” Xingwana has responded by saying it is all “sensational hot air”, and accused the paper of “one-sided and biased journalism.”