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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...

DPE supports SAA’s administrators' bid to reduce pilots’ high salaries, perks The business rescue practitioners (BRPs) issued a 48-hour notice on Wednesday to prevent nearly 400 pilots from accessing the company’s premises until they agreed to new employment terms and conditions. FILE: SAA planes. Picture: EWN 101 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on Thursday said one of the critical areas for a restructured South African Airways (SAA) to get off the ground was to red...

Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images SAA's business rescue practitioners have given members of the SAA Pilots Association 48-hour notice of a lock-out which will be enforced from Friday. The lockout comes after negotiations on the new agreement with the union stalled, and all internal dispute processes had been exhausted. According to the business rescue practitioners, the new agreement is needed to ensure a sustainable airline. SAA's business rescue practitioners have issued a notice of a lock-out to the SAA Pilots Association (SAAPA), effective from Friday. The business rescue prac...