South African Express grounded.

[drron]

May very well effect some AFFers.

The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has just suspended SA Express’ Air Operator’s Certificate (AoC) as well as their Aircraft Maintenance Organisation (AMO) approvals. They’ve also suspended the Certificates of Airworthiness (CoA) for nine of the 21 aircraft being operated by the airline.

That means that as of today, SA Express can no longer operate as an airline, and their entire fleet is grounded. If they want to restart operations they’ll have to reapply for all of these approvals, which would be a major process. So this airline isn’t just grounded for days, but probably weeks at a minimum, maybe months, or who knows, maybe SA Express won’t fly again.

Entire South African Express Fleet Grounded Over Safety Concerns - One Mile at a Time
Fly SA Express

 

[Denali]

Didnt VA recently cancel their partnership with them? I could be wrong, I just remembered something changed with VA.

 

[drron]

Indeed they did.

 

[Quickstatus]

I read further that mainline was SAA is shrinking its way back to profitability.

Sounds like what QF did/are doing

 

[turtlemichael]

Mango, SAA and SAE which are all now apparently to be joined into the one organization, are in an incredible financial mess. Who knows the outcome of this?

 

[Shikakui]

Unfortunately I think we are going to see a very reduced SAA in the (near) future.