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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 solution to their dispute. The union, which represents the majority of pilots at the state-owned airline...

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 concern over the cost of a flight to transport Covid-19 vaccines. In a statement, the department said ...

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.