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Overall, this is still below what they would be entitled to under the regulating agreement. SAA Pilots Association chairperson Grant Back says that the deal is the best under the circumstances. "We havent been paid in 16 months. Weve been locked out since 18 December and weve been on strike since 1 April. Since the onset the company had adopted starting us out, not having paid us what they owed us in 2019," Back said. "Not delivering on many promises regarding moneys owed in the past and th...

SAAPA says reports that pilots have rejected a collective settlement offer of close to R1-billion are misleading. The SAA Pilots Association wants the Labour Court to prevent the airline from using so-called scab labour on an urgent basis. SAAPA members have been locked out by the rescue practitioners since 18 December. The union also recently started a strike to prevent locked out members from being used as replacement labour. The SAA Pilots Association (SAAPA) intends to b...

Public enterprises boss Kgathatso Tlhakudi has launched a scathing attack on white SAA pilots, accusing them of greed and maintaining a self-enriching apartheid-era labour agreement.

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM SAA BRPs present ‘final’ settlement agreement to pilots Says parts of the offer – aspects that it wants to pay off over three years – will lapse once rescue process is completed. 00:01  So far pilot association Saapa is again standing firm. Image: Guillem Sartorio, Bloomberg The South African Airways (SAA) business rescue process is set to conclude “soon” according to its rescue practitioners Siviwe Dongwana and Les Matuson. However, the airlineÂ...

Turbulent times at SAA as pilots demand to be retrenched. The Head of SAA Pilot’s Association, Grant Back, told the BizNews Pour Hour that they have not been paid in a year and are proceeding with their uncommon strike. Grant is joined in conversation by Leon Louw of FMF and the team at BizNews. Grant Back on his last flight: I landed back in Johannesburg from Munich on the 28th of February. I actually did that flight with my son, not knowing it would be my last. It was at least a special one...

SAA Pilots Association granted certificate to strike over unpaid salaries Pilots claimed that they had not been paid salaries for almost a year. SAA plane at O.R. Tambo International Airport. Image: 123rf 2 hours ago JOHANNESBURG - While the South African Airways Pilots Association (Saapa) has now been given the green light to embark on a protected strike, members are still hoping for an eleventh-hour soluti...

The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) dismissed claims made by a pilots association that the SAA flight transporting a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines was an unnecessary expensive exercise as untrue...

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty The Department of Public Enterprises says a group of pilots is attempting to discredit an SAA flight transporting vaccines. The flight is expected to return from Belgium on Saturday with 80 000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. However, the group of pilots says the expenses incurred in sending the plane could have been avoided. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has lashed out at a group of South African Airways (SAA) pilots who raised co...

The transportation of vaccines in an empty South African Airways (SAA) aircraft has come under fire. The South African Airways Pilots' Association (Saapa) has lambasted the government for chartering an empty cargo plane to fetch a batch of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from Brussels.

SAA Pilots’ Association chairman Grant Back said there is a much cheaper way to get the vaccines to South Africa.