By Reuters
Business News
The airline also needs to consider what the opening of the skies will mean from a commercial and load factor perspective
Administrators for state-owned South African Airways (SAA) said on
Wednesday the airline is not
aiming to resume domestic flights from
mid-June, rejecting a statement from the airline a day earlier.
SAA is under a form of bankruptcy protection and suspended all
commercial passenger flights in late March, when the government imposed
one of Africa’s strictest lockdowns.
“The position around the cessation of flights remains as is until SAA
has a better sense of what the level 3 lockdown means in terms of
domestic air travel,” SAA’s administrators, Les Matuson and Siviwe
Dongwana, said in a statement.
“The airline also needs to consider what the opening of the skies will mean from a commercial and load factor perspective.”
Matuson and Dongwana said they had not vetted Tuesday’s statement from
the airline, adding that SAA’s future funding remained a key variable
for any resumption of flights.
SAA has not made a profit since 2011 and has mainly relied on bailouts
for survival and the government has told the administrators it would not
provide further funding.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that domestic air
travel for business purposes would be phased in after June 1, when the
country moves to level 3 of a five-level alert system.
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