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Boeing launches initiative to give people the confidence to resume flying

By: Rebecca Campbell 15th May 2020 Global major US aerospace group Boeing has launched a Confident Travel Initiative to help restore commercial air travel following the Covid-19 pandemic. Severe flight restrictions and national lockdowns by many countries have devastated commercial air passenger travel around the world. Boeing... →

Project launched to facilitate essential air cargo supplies to South Africa

By: Rebecca Campbell 15th May 2020 A South African business development company, ‘tvg&associates’ (TVG), has launched a project to coordinate the air transport of essential medical supplies to the country, using charter operations. This initiative, dubbed Operation Warhorse, is supported by the South African Association of Freight... →

International bioeconomy development group to expand its South African initiative

By: Rebecca Campbell 15th May 2020 The international bioeconomy development and promotion organisation, RSB, hopes to launch a Bioeconomy Initiative Platform in South Africa later this year. This platform has been shaped with inputs from business, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government. It will function as an... →

Local travel agents warn airlines about passenger ticket refunds

By: Rebecca Campbell 14th May 2020 The Association of Southern African Travel Agents (Asata), while expressing understanding for South Africa’s beleaguered airlines, has cautioned that they must comply with the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). The airline, travel and tourism sectors have been severely hit by the country’s lockdown... →

World airline body opposes countries imposing quarantine for international travellers

By: Rebecca Campbell 14th May 2020 The representative body for the global airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (Iata), has opposed the introduction by some countries of quarantine for arriving international travellers. These measures were part of those countries’ efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.... →

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Alexandre De Juniac

Blimps posited to monitor Covid-19 prevention measure compliance

By: Donna Slater 14th May 2020 Unmanned aerial systems, such as small blimps, could be used as novel airborne measures to monitor people in terms of physical distancing and other Covid-19 prevention measures, says University of Johannesburg (UJ) Institute of Intelligent Systems Professor Qingguo Wang. He explains that a... →

Unions Numsa and Sacca strongly denounce SAA BRPs

By: Rebecca Campbell 14th May 2020 Two of the trade unions which represent employees at the financially embattled State-owned airline South African Airways (SAA), the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) have condemned “in the strongest terms” the decision by... →

SAA rescue team to appeal court ruling on layoffs

By: Reuters 11th May 2020 Administrators trying save South African Airways will appeal a court ruling that ordered them to halt a layoff process, one of the administrators Siviwe Dongwana told Reuters. The Labour Court's decision to side with two trade unions in its judgment on Friday was a major blow to the... →

SAA to continue operating repatriation and cargo flights

By: Rebecca Campbell 8th May 2020 State-owned national flag carrier South African Airways (SAA) has assured that it had no plans to stop operating on May 8. It would continue to honour all its current commitments to provide air transport services to its customers, as well as any other requests that it might receive. It continued... →

Rolls-Royce highlights Covid-19 impact on its civil aerospace business

By: Rebecca Campbell 8th May 2020 UK-based industrial technology group Rolls-Royce has warned that the scale of the disruption to the civil aerospace sector caused by the Covid-19 pandemic (and the measures taken by many countries to counter it) would result in a smaller market in that sector, which would take several years to... →

Union warns of possibility of legal action regarding Comair business rescue

By: Rebecca Campbell 7th May 2020 Trade union UASA has expressed concerned at the news that local private-sector airline group Comair had applied for business rescue. The airline operated the British Airways in South Africa brand and the Kulula low cost carrier brand. The airline group stated it had done so because the halt in... →

Airline and tourism bodies call for international support for African travel and tourism sector

By: Rebecca Campbell 7th May 2020 International financial institutions, international donors and country development partners have been urged to act to support Africa’s travel and tourism industry. This appeal has been made jointly by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the World Travel and Tourism Council... →

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Umlani Bushcamp game tracker Abed Ndlovu with elephant, Limpopo province, South Africa

Ethiopian Airlines ready to be saviour to fellow African carriers

By: Bloomberg 6th May 2020 Ethiopian Airlines Group is prepared to come to the rescue of stricken carriers around Africa, even as the continent’s biggest airline deals with its own mounting losses and grounded planes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Talks are underway with the government of Mauritius about the revival of the... →

Global airline body proposes measures to allow safe resumption of air travel

By: Rebecca Campbell 6th May 2020 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (Iata), has highlighted that, to date, the evidence suggested that the risk of passengers infected with Covid-19 passing the disease on to other passengers in an airliner was low. This was the... →

Bestfly secures long-term contract for Angola oil, gas shuttle services

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 6th May 2020 Angolan fixed wing and rotary aircraft operator Bestfly has secured a three-year contract to support oil and gas company ExxonMobil’s requirements to ferry staff from Luanda to its main oil logistics base at Soyo. The contract includes the option of a two-year extension. →

The Bestfly ATR 72-600 used for the long term oil and gas contract

Comair files for business rescue

By: Rebecca Campbell 5th May 2020 South African private-sector airline group Comair announced on May 5 that it was going into business rescue. This was to protect the company’s interests and those of its stakeholders. Comair operated the British Airways in South Africa and Kulula low cost carrier brands. This was a consequence of... →

Global airline and postal agencies urge governments to act to keep air mail flowing

By: Rebecca Campbell 4th May 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have jointly highlighted that current air capacity for post and parcels was inadequate. They called on governments around the world to act to enable the despatch of mail by air. Because of the severe travel... →

Airbus announces modification to allow airlines to take cargo on their passenger decks

By: Rebecca Campbell 4th May 2020 Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus has announced that it has developed a modification that allows its A330-family and A350-family widebody airliners to safely carry cargo pallets on their passenger decks, in place of seats. The pallets can be secured to the cabin floor seat tracks,... →

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Cargo pallets locked on to cabin floor seat tracks on an Airbus airliner

SAA says government exploring funding options

By: Bloomberg 4th May 2020 South African Airways’ (SAA's) administrators extended a deadline for workers to agree to severance packages after Minister for Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan said he needs time to explore funding options for the bankrupt state-owned carrier. The business-rescue team led by Les Matuson and... →

Iata urges governments to keep air cargo flowing

By: Rebecca Campbell 1st May 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has called for greater coordination between governments to ensure that air freight continues to flow during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Air cargo operations continue to be hampered by permit approval delays, lack of ground support and... →

World’s airline and shipping sectors appeal to govts regarding flights for seafarers

By: Rebecca Campbell 1st May 2020 A joint appeal has been issued to governments by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) for urgent steps to be taken to enable crew change flights for seafarers. As with commercial aviation aircrews, although on different timescales,... →

Global airline and airports associations call for urgent government support for the sector

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th April 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata) – the representative body for the global airline industry – and Airports Council International (ACI) – which represented the world’s airports – issued a joint appeal to governments on April 30 to rapidly provide financial support to airlines and... →

Comair warns that it is in a very difficult financial position thanks to lockdown

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th April 2020 South African private-sector airline group Comair issued a cautionary statement on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) on April 30, warning about the impact on its business of the national lockdown and halt to all scheduled air services to, from and within South... →

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A Comair Boeing 737-400, in the colours of British Airways

Boeing reports significant impacts on business from Covid-19

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th April 2020 US aerospace and defence giant Boeing has reported that its revenues for the first quarter this year (1Q20) were 26% lower than in the same period last year (1Q19). The 1Q20 revenues were just under $16.91-billion as against the 1Q19 figure of just under $22.92-billion. Using Generally Accepted... →

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A Boeing 777 in the colours of Angolan airline TAAG

Coronavirus causes logistics and supply chain nightmares for industry

By: Simone Liedtke 30th April 2020 A 10.6% decline in March alone for total freight volumes is considered the most significant monthly decline that the company has on record, which goes back to January 2008, vehicle tracking company Ctrack has found. For the year to March, however, there was a reduction of 7.1% in total freight... →

Airbus reports first quarter results hit by Covid-19 pandemic

By: Rebecca Campbell 29th April 2020 Europe-based global giant aerospace group Airbus has reported a consolidated net loss of €481-million for the first quarter of this year (1Q20), in sharp contrast to its net income of €40-million during the same period last year (1Q19). The consolidated reported loss per share was €0.61 in 1Q20,... →

Air cargo demand dropped sharply in March, except in Africa; capacity down even more

By: Rebecca Campbell 29th April 2020 Worldwide air cargo demand fell sharply in March, but air cargo capacity fell even more, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) reported on April 28. But the demand for air cargo for pharmaceuticals increased by about 100%. (Iata defines air cargo as being freight plus mail.) These... →

SA unions vow to work with government to save SAA, SA Express

By: African News Agency 29th April 2020 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the South African Cabin Crew Association said they had had constructive discussions with the government on ensuring the continued existence of troubled national carrier South African Airways and fellow state-owned airline SA Express. The... →

Iata urges aviation regulators to coordinate temporary Covid-19 crisis steps through ICAO

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th April 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has called on aviation regulators around the world to work with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to ensure the seamless and safe operation of civil aviation around the world during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Such... →

SA Express provisionally liquidated

By: News24Wire 28th April 2020 State-owned regional airline SA Express has been placed in provisional liquidation after its business rescue practitioners filed an urgent court application, a reliable source confirmed to Fin24 on Tuesday. This comes after practitioners lodged the application in the Pretoria High Court on March... →

Boeing ends JV agreement with Embraer, sparking acrimony

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th April 2020 US aerospace giant Boeing announced on April 25 that it had terminated its Master Transaction Agreement (MTA) with Brazilian aerospace group Embraer. Under this, the two groups who have created two joint ventures (JVs). The first JV would have embraced Embraer’s commercial airline business and... →

SOEs cooperate to ship essential radioisotopes overseas

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th April 2020 South Africa’s globally-important State-owned company NTP Radioisotopes, a subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, has cooperated with State-owned flag-carrier South African Airways to deliver essential medical radioisotopes to international customers. The deliveries were made... →

SAA thanked for its repatriation flights to Germany

By: Rebecca Campbell 24th April 2020 The German Ambassador to South Africa has thanked South African Airways for the airline’s role in repatriating 5 600 European citizens who had been caught in South Africa by the national lockdown and travel ban, imposed to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. The German and other European Union... →

SAA business rescue practitioners say SAA must be wound down or liquidated

By: Rebecca Campbell 24th April 2020 The joint business rescue practitioners for financially-embattled State-owned national flag carrier South African Airways (SAA), Leslie Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, have released a “Notice to all Affected Persons”, dated April 23, regarding the situation of the airline. This followed the decision... →

SAA left with choice between wind-down or liquidation, say business rescue practitioners

By: African News Agency 24th April 2020 The business rescue practitioners (BRPs) appointed to implement a rescue plan for national carrier South African Airways (SAA) have announced on Thursday that without further government funding they will not be able to comply with their mandate and that their only options would be to either wind... →

Iata warns plight of African airline industry even worse than previously believed

By: Rebecca Campbell 23rd April 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata), the representative body for the global airline industry, warned on April 23 that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the African airline industry was going to be significantly more severe than previously expected. The association called on... →

Iata wants confidence-building measures to help restart air travel

By: Rebecca Campbell 22nd April 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata), which is the representative body for the global airline industry, has urged governments to cooperate with the sector to implement confidence-building measures, to deal with the expected slow recovery in air passenger demand. National travel... →

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