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SAA gets new A330-300 aircraft – four more are on the way South African Airways has taken delivery of its first new A330-300 a...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
In the busiest week of the year for British holidaymakers heading for South Africa, an average of 10 families a day are being denied boarding when they turn up at Heathrow. They fall foul of draconian new rules that demand a full birth certificate for each child.
Grant Hughes, an account manager from Suffolk, was booked to fly from Heathrow to Addis Ababa and onwards to Durban with Ethiopian Airlines. Mr Hughes, 45, was travelling with his fiancee and his two children, aged 11 and 15, for their wedding in the city on 16 December. But the airline, which had not told them birth certificates were obligatory, refused to let them board the plane.
Responsibility rests with passengers to ensure they have the necessary documents to enter a country. Airlines face fines from the South African authorities if they carry passengers under 18 who do not have a birth certificate and are therefore inadmissible.
Monday, 21 December 2015
a tail-strike
When the plane takes off, why doesn’t the tail hit the runway?
It sometimes does happen. It’s called a tail-strike where the rear end of an aircraft touches the runway. It can happen during take-off if the pilot pulls up too quickly. It can also happen during landing if the pilot raises the nose aggressively.
Sunday, 20 December 2015
I can't believe this it is auwful - SSR Airport in MRU is so secure I have been to Mauritius about 8 or 9 times in my life
Air France bomb scare: Kenya says explosive device found in toilets of plane carrying 473 people from Mauritius to Paris
Friday, 18 December 2015
The World’s 10 Oldest Airlines
Nr. 10 Aer Lingus
Nr. 9 American Airlines
Nr. 8 Air France
Nr. 7 Aeroflot
Nr 6. Delta
Nr 5. Iberia
Nr 4. Lufthansa
Nr 3. Czech Airlines
Nr 2. Qantas
Nr 1. KLM
Monday, 30 November 2015
Air Koryo
Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy ride! Disgruntled passengers, cold burgers and in-flight propaganda: North Korea’s Air Koryo ‘the world’s worst airline (four years running…)’
Sunday, 29 November 2015
ALLEGED CAUSE OF HELDERBERG PLANE EXPOSED
Former SAA consultant Allan Dexter claimes the plane was carrying rocket fuel and ammunition.
JOHANNESBURG – The fate of the doomed Helderberg plane has once again made news headlines, with an Australian man in the final stages of cancer signing an affidavit on what he says was the cause of the crash.
The Sunday Times is reporting that former South African Airways (SAA) consultant Allan Dexter has claimed that the plane was carrying rocket fuel and ammunition.
Dexter worked as a public relations consultant for SAA from 1968 to 1987.
The Helderberg crashed into the sea off Mauritius in 1987, killing all 159 passengers and crew.
The Sunday Times says Dexter was phoned by an SAA official in Taiwan, who explained that the plane exploded due to the rocket fuel and ammunition which was being transported in violation of sanctions at the time.
He says this was later confirmed by another top official as being top secret.
Dexter says captain Dawie Uys did not want to fly the plane because this would put the passengers' lives at risk.
But Uys was told by then then SAA Chief Executive Officer Gert van der Veer that the cargo was none of his business and he would be fired if he failed to fly.
The Sunday Times is reporting that former South African Airways (SAA) consultant Allan Dexter has claimed that the plane was carrying rocket fuel and ammunition.
Dexter worked as a public relations consultant for SAA from 1968 to 1987.
The Helderberg crashed into the sea off Mauritius in 1987, killing all 159 passengers and crew.
The Sunday Times says Dexter was phoned by an SAA official in Taiwan, who explained that the plane exploded due to the rocket fuel and ammunition which was being transported in violation of sanctions at the time.
He says this was later confirmed by another top official as being top secret.
Dexter says captain Dawie Uys did not want to fly the plane because this would put the passengers' lives at risk.
But Uys was told by then then SAA Chief Executive Officer Gert van der Veer that the cargo was none of his business and he would be fired if he failed to fly.
The Margo Commission investigated the disaster but was unable to determine the cause of a fire on board.
Saturday, 28 November 2015
Friday, 27 November 2015
Fijian rugby team stepped in to serve food and drinks when flight attendants were busy treating a desperately ill passenger - See more at: http://www.airnewslive.net/fijian-rugby-team-stepped-in-to-serve-food-and-drinks-when-flight-attendants-were-busy-treating-a-desperately-ill-passenger/#sthash.ImqnvOEO.dpuf
- The national Fijian rugby union team assisted a sick woman mid-flight
- The coach and the team doctor tended to the woman
- Virgin Australia flight attendants were also busy ensuring they were okay
- Half the Fijian team then finished handing the food out to passengers
- They then removed the food trays and filled rubbish bags on VA176
- The woman, estimated to be 65, was falling in and out of consciousness
- Passenger Ryan Fee told Daily Mail Australia she is much better today
- The Virgin flight was travelling between Nadi, Fiji, to Brisbane on Thursday
- Virgin Australia thanked the Fijian Sevens on Friday for their efforts
Thursday, 26 November 2015
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