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Case expected to be heard next week.

SAA's rescue practitioners want SAAPA to accept a new agreement. (Supplied) An urgent application will be heard by the Labour Court to have a lockout of SAA Pilots declared unlawful or unprotected. The business rescue practitioners of SAA have "locked out" SAAPA members since 18 December 2020, meaning they cannot work or get paid. The rescue practitioners want SAAPA to accept a new agreement in terms of which salaries of all pilots will be reduced by 50%. The Airline Pilots' Association of SA intends to bring an urgent application in the Labour Court in Johannesburg on 29 ...

MONEYWEB app instead? Saapa says the lockout is unlawful and unprotected. 16:14  An Airbus A330-200 passenger jet, operated by SAA. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers, Bloomberg The Airline Pilots’ Association South Africa (Alpa-SA) has launched an urgent process to interdict the South African Airways (SAA) business rescue practitioners from continuing with a lockout of its members. Alpa-SA is the parent body of the SAA Pilots Association (Saapa), which represents 96% of the pilots employed by SAA. At the heart of the impasse between the airline and Alpa-SA is the three-decade long Regulator...

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...

Picture: Neil McCartney The department of public enterprises appears to have been caught out by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) in what seems to be a barefaced lie about how much SAA pilots have been earning. In a statement yesterday, Iata distanced itself from “the false assertion in a South Africa’s department of public  enterprises news release today that it had compared SAA pilots’ remuneration with those at other airlines”. “As an industry body, Iata represents, leads and se...