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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 haven't been paid in 16 months. We've been locked out since 18 December and we've 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 then of course the lockout happened in December, so 16 months is a long time to go without a salar...

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 bring an urgent application in the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Thursday, 15 April, seeking to h...

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 airline has yet to come to an agreeement with the SAA Pilots’ Association (Saapa). INSIDERGOLD Su...

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 that’s in the memory and certainly a special moment. It’s been over a year and a lot of guys, p...