A war of words between SAA and the union Numsa.
SAA is describing Numsa’s remarks that the airline has safety problems as unfortunate.
The national carrier is demanding the retraction of the statement but the union is not willing to do that.
Acting Chief Pilot for SAA, Mpho Mamashela, explains the process of checking flights.
“An aircraft is acquired from a manufacturer who will indicate to you the required services which should take place and exactly what needs to be done. Any aircraft part that gets replaced has serial numbers that need to be verified by the manufacturer to ensure that these are genuine.
“Our aircraft operate under international standards, we fly all over the world and have to comply with the standards of everywhere that we go.”
JUST IN: Due to the comments made yesterday by unions, the SA Civil Aviation Authority will be doing inspections & verifications on all tech personnel & engineers operating #SAA aircraft. This after the unions said juniors & unqualified staff are operating the planes. #SAAStrike
— Heidi Giokos (@HeidiGiokos) November 18, 2019
The ailing state-owned entity is at loggerheads with unions over a wage dispute and planned job cuts of more than 900 employees.
Corruption and mismanagement have cost SAA R28-billion over the last thirteen years.
In other news – Luyolo Yiba speaks out on how does it feel like to win Idols SA
Newly crowned Idols SA winner Luyolo Yiba is still on cloud nine after scooping the title. He said winning the competition was a dream come true and “surreal”. Luyolo beat Snenhlanhla “Sneziey” Msomi in the talent competition’s finale at Carnival City in Boksburg on Sunday.
He won a prize package worth more than R1.5m, including R1m cash, a Huawei Matebook X, GT watch, B525 Router, 20GB of Telkom Data, a Ford Fiesta 1.0 Ecoboost, an R100,000 Truworths voucher, R80,000 worth of Yahama music instruments and a record deal with Gallo. continue reading
Source: eNCA
