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Mango no closer to returning to the skies after licence cancellation
Mango Airlines struggles to regain its licences as the Air Licensing Services Council cancels its operations, prompting concerns over a potential wind-down.
Mango not closer to returning to the skies after licence cancellation
Air Licensing Services Council cancels state-owned low-cost airline’s licenses and business rescue practitioner warns winding-down process could follow
‘Low cost does not mean low fare!’ This is why domestic flights are so expensive in South Africa
Compared to the rest of the world, South Africa’s commercial aviation sector has remained relatively small.
Women fly to new heights
Women in aviation celebrated gender inclusivity at The National Aviation Gender Summit (NAGS) which serves as an annual platform for industry stakeholders to reaffirm their commitment to this vital cause.
The blue sky economy: preparing for take-off
Aviation is the internet of the sky. It is globalisation in action. It connects us in person with loved ones and business colleagues, and takes us to exotic destinations for our vacations.
Will Pravin Gordhan sell Mango or continue legal battle?
Business rescue practitioner says no word on the next step from Gordhan, who is mum on whether he is heading to the apex court after failing at the Supreme Court of Appeal
Pravin’s delay in selling Mango adversely affects members - Numsa
Outgoing public enterprises minister fights business rescue practitioner’s bid to sell off SAA stake in Mango
Numsa: Gordhan’s retirement as the minister of Public Enterprises is ‘good riddance to bad rubbish!’
Just like the hit song by Miley Cyrus, Gordhan came in like a wrecking ball in 2018 and he has wrecked every single state- owned entity (SOE) that he touched.
Numsa welcomes Mango Airlines ruling against Gordhan
According to Aviation. com, Mango’s business rescue practitioner (BRP), Sipho Sono, and Numsa opposed the ministry’s attempt to appeal.
Gauteng High court denies Gordhan leave to appeal on the finalisation of the sale of Mango Airways
The judgement, which was handed down on the 6th of September, gave Gordhan 30 days to confirm whether the sale could go through or not.
Mango business rescue practitioner wants to force Gordhan to OK airline sale
Legal battle over state-owned airline intensifies as ministers lock horn with rescue practitioners
Business rescue practitioner has no power to sell Mango, says Minister Gordhan
Ministers fight high court ruling giving them 30 days to decide on sale of troubled state-owned low-cost airline
Tarrying on Mango decision paints Gordhan into a corner
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa took up the issue yesterday to press the minister to take the sale offer.
Minister Pravin Gordhan’s indecisiveness hobbles rescue plans at Mango airlines
The business rescue practitioner for Mango Airlines sounded alarm bells, saying the rescue plan might have to be abandoned.
Pravin set to authorise sale of another state-owned airline
Mango, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SA Airways (SAA), has been under business rescue since July last year. At the time the airline’s creditor liability stood at R2. 8 billion with forward sales and un-flown ticket liabilities of about R183 million.
LIFT or FlySafair: Who are you taking off with?
It’s no secret that flight tickets have left us feeling dizzy the last couple of months, but which carrier is your fighter this festive season?
SOE's plagued by meddling under Ramaphosa, Gordhan
Some SOEs, under Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, have not submitted financial statements for 2021-22 and others exempted from disclosing irregular expenditure for auditing purposes.
Small airlines feast on licences stripped from floundering state carrier
Fly Safair announced this week that it had received approval to operate flights to 11 new destinations within the southern African region.
UPDATED: Cost of domestic flights getting out of hand, say SA travellers
Travellers share their frustrations over the increasing costs of flight tickets.
Parliament not swallowing Mango airlines tale of December take-off
MP Jeanette Komane said, ‘There is not much confidence that Mango will be back in the skies by December. ’
Mango shelves plans to haul SAA to court over R400m payment
Business rescue practitioner gives assurances that dispute over payment of millions close to being resolved
Taxi organisation Santaco bides its time on Mango aviation dreams
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has not been derailed from its aspirations in the aviation sector by the recent rebuff from Mango Airlines business rescue practitioners (BRPs) and is actually looking at its options after consultations with its constituency, officials confirmed yesterday.
Santaco confirms Mango Airlines takeover bid after leaked business rescue practitioner’s reply letter
The council said it had noted the practitioner’s leaked response to the papers it filed.
Nudging Santaco out of the running for low-cost airline Mango eases SAA’s competition fears
The elbowing out of taxi moguls Santaco as the preferred bidders for fledging airline Mango has raised more questions than answers, which some analysts have argued is a systematic elimination of competition for SAA, which has yet to confirm a collaboration.
SAA to sell its subsidiary Mango
SAA has resolved to sell its subsidiary Mango Airline and divest from the low-cost carrier as part of its restructuring, but the decision has angered some workers unions.