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Durban businessman, Phinda Fikeni, and his business partner, Mzwakhe Sithole, have decided to support the city’s Focus Air Flight School by assisting students enrolling for an 18-month pilot training programme, without having to fund the course up front.
The high costs of learning to fly have traditionally been a major obstacle in many countries for talented youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The new scheme aims to fund trainees to get a private pilot’s licence (PPL), the first rung on the ladder towards becoming a commercial pilot.
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 19 - Kenya Airways (KQ), Kenya’s national carrier, and South African Airways (SAA) have signed a codeshare agreement that opens more Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |
SAA's only Airbus A330-300 recently flew back from Accra in Ghana with passengers despite being delayed in the country after apparently taking on contaminated fuel.