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SAA flights will remain grounded until at least 30 April 2021 and a lot of work needs to be done to get the national carrier back in the air in May.

South African Airways has approached pilots directly in order to establish what support there is for the airline's proposals for retrenchment and rehiring.

SAA lockout an abuse of power and an attempt to scapegoat pilots - Saapa The South African Airways Pilots' Association (Saapa) is reviewing a Labour Court judgment that dismissed their bid to stop a lockout at the national carrier. Picture: @flysaa_care/Twitter 85 days ago They went to the Labour Court to challenge it and lost late on Tuesday. Saapa's chairperson, Grant Back: "We maintain that this lockout is a further abuse of power under business rescue provisions and an attempt to scapegoat the pilots f...

Another blow for Dudu Myeni in delinquency case Updated Nokukhanya N Mntambo Share this: Former South African Airways (SAA) chairperson Dudu Myeni has suffered another blow after the High Court in Pretoria dismissed her application for leave to appeal against her delinquency order and her application to allow further evidence.  Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile Myeni was declared a delinquent director in May following a lengthy court battle.  The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and the SAA Pilots’ Association (SAAPA) dragged Myeni to court amid claims that she was to blame for SAA’s finan...

In September, SAA’s business rescue practitioners presented the SAA Pilots’ Association (SAAPA) with a set of demands. These were the new terms and conditions of employment and new salary scales for the 88 pilots who would be retained by SAA following the airline’s restructuring. Some 620 pilots will be retrenched, as per the S189A notice issued in July. In addition to the new conditions, SAAPA was required to agree to the termination of the Regulating Agreement (RA) that governs the terms and conditions under which SAA’s pilots are employed (and dismissed and retrenched). The union a...