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SAA
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SAA Pilot Barred From Flying Plane After Removing Pants
03 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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…
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SAA Has Been Stealing From You With Non-Existent Services – This Is How
11 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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SAA Are No Longer Serving Dinner On Their New York To JHB Flight
03 Oct 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 10 Comments
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.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
16 Jul 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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.
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SAA Go On Record To Say That They Absolutely Won’t Accept White Males For Their Cadet Programme
12 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
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.”
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Wednesday Morning Spice
15 May 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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..
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Tuesday Morning Spice
12 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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.
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China’s New MONSTER Transport Plane Takes Flight For First Time [VIDEO]
29 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Saturday, the Chinese military conducted its first successful test flight of their first domestically made jumbo airfreighter.
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SAA In Food Waste Row
28 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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SAA Rated 9th Most Dangerous Airline In The World
23 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 15 Comments
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.
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Local Airlines Don’t Want Fastjet To Enter The Market
23 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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1Time Will Retrench 15% Of Its Staff
11 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
09 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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?
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SAA CEO Throws In The Towel
08 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Comair Asks Questions Of SAA’s Latest Bailout
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
03 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
02 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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.
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SAA Hemorrhages Executives As Chairwoman And Six Board Members Resign
28 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cheryl Carolus and six other SAA board members resigned yesterday, plunging the state-vested airline into yet more turmoil.
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SAA: Financial Statements Six Months Late, AGM On Hold In Bid To Secure Bail-Out
27 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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European Parliament Gets Demand From Holland To Cancel SAA Landing Rights Over Anti-White Hiring Laws
24 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 64 Comments
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.
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SAA On White Cadets: Here’s Their Official Response
20 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
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.
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SAA No Longer Accepting Pilot Applications From White Males
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
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.
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SAA’s New Restrictive Check-In Baggage Policy, Still No Fat Seats For Fat People
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Drunk COPE MP Arrested On SAA Flight
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Nationwide Is Suing SAA, For R155 Million In Damages
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Minister Denies Dropping K-Bomb After Having To Fly Economy Class
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.”
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