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Local no-frills carrier 1time Airlines plans to start flights to Victoria Falls as well as Harare. Apparently a test flight with civil aviation authorities aboard from both countries has been completed with smiles all round. So that’s all good. Read More…
1time Airlines has called it quits on the Johannesburg-Maputo route. The airline’s last flight to the Mozambican capital will be on August 31.
The airline says it would need a greater allocation of the number of seats it can sell on the route to make it more viable. Read More…
The “green machine, Kulula.com, has signed a $646 million deal for eight brand-new Boeing 737-800 airliners. Read More…
Back in August, US flight attendant Steven Slater a briefly became a hero when, after losing his temper with a difficult passenger on a Jet Blue flight, made, as Reuters so vivdly describes it, “a profanity-filled exit via an airliner’s emergency chute” when the aircraft arrived at JFK airport in New York. Read More…
Michael O’Leary, the outspoken boss of no-frills airline Ryanair, has got pilots and passenger lobby groups all hot under the collar by asking whether it’s necessary for commercial airliners to have two pilots on the flight deck. Read More…
Mexicana, the venerable national airline of Mexico, has gone broke and suspended all flights indefinitely. This is the sad message currently up on the airline’s website: Read More…
Southwest Airlines, the original no-frills airline which all the others have tried to copy, has now added “mechanical difficulties” to the list of acts of God, events for which the airline will not compensate travellers if their flights are delayed. Read More…
If you’ve ever had to fly to Maputo from Jo’burg, you’ll remember the sting of the ticket price: a couple of grand each way which, mile for mile, worked out as one of the more expensive flights in southern Africa. Read More…
Last September, return airfares between Johannesburg and Cape Town on British Airways on just about any day during the World Cup tournament were being quoted at nearly R10 000 – more than the cost of a return flight to London over the same period. Read More…
This – a sight that all air travellers surely loathe – is an empty baggage carousel at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International a couple of Sundays ago after some (but by no means all) of the lucky passengers on a certain Kulula flight had picked up their bags. The rest of us – some 15 people in all – waited, in vain, for ours to appear.
This was the end of a long day’s travel during which logic appeared absent wherever it is that the airline’s operations people play at being God. Read More…
