È atterrato poco fa a FCO un a340-600 della SAA decollato da FRA. Volo SAA4261 fra-jnb.
Qualcuno sa il motivo della visita?
Qualcuno sa il motivo della visita?
South African Airways sospende le operazioni
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Covid-19 : South African Airways set to lay-off all its 4,700 employees
South African Airways (SAA) is set to lay off all of its employees at the end of April.
A document detailing the airline’s severance package, obtained by Bloomberg, shows that 4,700 employees will leave the company by the end of this month. The collapsing airline will reportedly make sales of its assets to foot the salary pay-outs. According to the Mail&Guardian, the document shared with employees stated that:
“…the company will make payment of the severance packages to employees on a monthly basis, over a period of six months, once the sale of assets [has] been concluded.”
These assets include the sale of two night slots at London Heathrow airport.
The decision to fire all staff comes after the South African Government declined to provide more funds for rescue efforts. The South African government earlier this week told administrators that it wouldn't provide more funds, lending guarantees or allow foreign financing of a business rescue plan.
The coronavirus pandemic has affected several airlines over the past few months. Reduced schedules and grounded fleets mean that airlines are rapidly bleeding through money while they weather the pandemic. However, many carriers have been able to acquire government bailouts to cushion the financial blow. Unfortunately for South African Airways, this will not be an option.
The SAA entered a form of bankruptcy protection in December, and has since had to suspend all its passenger flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has left the world's aviation industry in jeopardy.
Even before the pandemic however, SAA was already reducing routes and considering job cuts.
In a turbulent decade for the carrier, at least nine chief executive officers were brought in to try and change its course, all with little success.
SAA is among several state-owned companies to have become technically insolvent without financial assistance from the South African government, following years of mismanagement and corruption scandals -- particularly under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, which ended in 2018.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/bus...4/south-african-airways-to-fire-all-employees
Covid-19 : South African Airways set to lay-off all its 4,700 employees
South African Airways (SAA) is set to lay off all of its employees at the end of April.
A document detailing the airline’s severance package, obtained by Bloomberg, shows that 4,700 employees will leave the company by the end of this month. The collapsing airline will reportedly make sales of its assets to foot the salary pay-outs. According to the Mail&Guardian, the document shared with employees stated that:
“…the company will make payment of the severance packages to employees on a monthly basis, over a period of six months, once the sale of assets [has] been concluded.”
These assets include the sale of two night slots at London Heathrow airport.
The decision to fire all staff comes after the South African Government declined to provide more funds for rescue efforts. The South African government earlier this week told administrators that it wouldn't provide more funds, lending guarantees or allow foreign financing of a business rescue plan.
The coronavirus pandemic has affected several airlines over the past few months. Reduced schedules and grounded fleets mean that airlines are rapidly bleeding through money while they weather the pandemic. However, many carriers have been able to acquire government bailouts to cushion the financial blow. Unfortunately for South African Airways, this will not be an option.
The SAA entered a form of bankruptcy protection in December, and has since had to suspend all its passenger flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has left the world's aviation industry in jeopardy.
Even before the pandemic however, SAA was already reducing routes and considering job cuts.
In a turbulent decade for the carrier, at least nine chief executive officers were brought in to try and change its course, all with little success.
SAA is among several state-owned companies to have become technically insolvent without financial assistance from the South African government, following years of mismanagement and corruption scandals -- particularly under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, which ended in 2018.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/bus...4/south-african-airways-to-fire-all-employees
bella domanda... il punto è che i voli vengono emessi spesso da SA ma operati dale sussidiarie....
ANALYSIS: How would an SAA exit affect the nation's connectivity?
If South African Airways fails to find a way through its current funding crisis, it could leave a big hole in its home country’s connectivity, depending on which routes are considered viable as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
But much would also depend on whether the separate airlines that were operating a significant number of regional and domestic services on SAA’s behalf were able to continue flying.
Cirium schedules data for January 2020 shows that Johannesburg OR Tambo International airport-based SAA accounted for 40% of marketed domestic flights in South Africa. When the figures are split by operator, however, only 9% of domestic flights were undertaken by SAA aircraft.
On international services, SAA accounted for 44% of marketed flights touching South Africa in January, but when the data is split by operator, only 19% were undertaken by SAA metal.
Indeed, of all flights marketed under the SAA name in January, Cirium schedules data shows more than half were operated by other airlines.
Those operators were state-owned regional airline SA Express – itself facing a dire financial situation – and privately owned regional carrier Airlink, which is bringing forward plans to put its own code on services amid doubts about SAA’s future.
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
In terms of marketed international flights, the pre-coronavirus SAA undertook 44%, or around 4,000, of services touching South Africa in January. The same data shows it marketed 26% of seats and 16% of available seat-kilometres (ASKs).
SAA’s intercontinental services – which were all flown using its own metal – took a relatively small proportion of such flights touching South Africa in January, amid a long list of well-established overseas operators serving the country.
Demonstrating SAA’s tough competitive environment in its home market, sub-Saharan Africa peer Ethiopian Airlines, for example, was responsible for 93% of intercontinental flights touching its home country in January, and 95% of all international flights, Cirium data shows.
SAA’s biggest international destinations measured by marketed seat capacity during January were all in Africa: Gaborone, Harare, Lusaka, Windhoek, Maputo and Accra.
And in terms of the number of flights, the first 19 of SAA’s 39 international destinations were on its home continent, Cirium data shows.
When SAA’s international flights are split by operator – rather than marketing airline – a different picture emerges, at least in terms of the number of flights operated by SAA itself.
In January, some 43% of international flights marketed by SAA were operated by Airlink. Those flights represented 20% of SAA’s international seats and 6% of its ASKs, reflecting the fact that they were operated by regional aircraft on short international sectors.
SA Express, meanwhile, operated 12% of SAA’s international flights, 7% of its seats and 2% of its ASKs.
INTERCONTINENTAL PROPORTIONS
Of SAA’s marketed international flights in January, 5% – or around 420 – were intercontinental, translating to 13% in terms of seats and 33% in terms of ASKs.
But when only considering international flights operated using SAA’s own metal, some 24% were intercontinental, which translates to 35% of seats (around 110,000) and 71% of ASKs.
So while the majority of SAA’s international focus has been on intra-Africa services in terms of marketed flights, Cirium data shows its seven non-African destinations in January – New York, London, Perth, Frankfurt, Munich, Sao Paulo and Washington DC – accounted for nearly three-quarters of the crucial international ASK measure when only its own metal is considered.
That means a significant proportion of SAA’s revenue has been tied up in the fiercely competitive landscape of intercontinental services, despite the number of such flights operated by the carrier having edged downwards in recent years amid restructuring efforts.
Indeed, on intercontinental services to South Africa in January, SAA accounted for 14% of flights, 10% of seats and 12% of ASKs, meaning it trailed Emirates and British Airways by most measures, Cirium data shows.
In the same month, Emirates was responsible for 17% of intercontinental flights, 22% of seats and 18% of ASKs, while BA was responsible for 11%, 13% and 14% respectively.
That SAA has struggled to get a foothold on intercontinental flights reflects a market opportunity that has concurrently proven to be a big challenge for the carrier: South Africa’s attractiveness as a destination. Therefore, while the country’s relatively advanced domestic economy and mobile population is a boon to air travel demand, many international carriers have long coveted – and taken – a piece of the long-haul market.
This is shown in the fact that United Airlines’ only flight to Africa in January was a Cape Town service, while Johannesburg was among just four African destinations served by Delta Air Lines during the same month.
Other international carriers serving South Africa with multiple daily frequencies in January included Qatar Airways, KLM, Lufthansa, Air France, Cathay Pacific, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Ethiopian, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, LATAM Airlines and Etihad.
DOMESTIC SPLIT
On domestic routes, SAA plays a significant role in a sector where few players were escaping financial woes even before the current crisis.
SAA accounted for 40% of domestic flights in January, or around 5,400, in terms of services marketed under its name, Cirium data shows.
Fewer than 1,300 of those flights were operated by SAA itself, however, with Airlink flying more than 3,000 and struggling SA Express operating more than 850. Indeed, under network cuts proposed by the carrier’s administrators in February, SAA would cut all domestic flights but its Johannesburg-Cape Town route.
Comair was the biggest South African domestic carrier in January in terms of flights operated, at around 3,800, Cirium data shows. Nearly 2,000 of those were operated for British Airways under a franchise agreement (which also includes a few regional services) and the rest under Comair’s Kulula low-cost carrier brand.
SAA subsidiary Mango – whose fortunes are likely to be closely tied to those of its parent – and FlySafair are also significant players in the domestic market, each accounting for more than 2,000 flights in January.
Cirium fleets data for mid-January this year shows that SAA had 41 passenger aircraft in service: seven Airbus A319s, 10 A320s, 10 A330s, 10 A340s and four A350s.
Cirium
If South African Airways fails to find a way through its current funding crisis, it could leave a big hole in its home country’s connectivity, depending on which routes are considered viable as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
But much would also depend on whether the separate airlines that were operating a significant number of regional and domestic services on SAA’s behalf were able to continue flying.
Cirium schedules data for January 2020 shows that Johannesburg OR Tambo International airport-based SAA accounted for 40% of marketed domestic flights in South Africa. When the figures are split by operator, however, only 9% of domestic flights were undertaken by SAA aircraft.
On international services, SAA accounted for 44% of marketed flights touching South Africa in January, but when the data is split by operator, only 19% were undertaken by SAA metal.
Indeed, of all flights marketed under the SAA name in January, Cirium schedules data shows more than half were operated by other airlines.
Those operators were state-owned regional airline SA Express – itself facing a dire financial situation – and privately owned regional carrier Airlink, which is bringing forward plans to put its own code on services amid doubts about SAA’s future.
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
In terms of marketed international flights, the pre-coronavirus SAA undertook 44%, or around 4,000, of services touching South Africa in January. The same data shows it marketed 26% of seats and 16% of available seat-kilometres (ASKs).
SAA’s intercontinental services – which were all flown using its own metal – took a relatively small proportion of such flights touching South Africa in January, amid a long list of well-established overseas operators serving the country.
Demonstrating SAA’s tough competitive environment in its home market, sub-Saharan Africa peer Ethiopian Airlines, for example, was responsible for 93% of intercontinental flights touching its home country in January, and 95% of all international flights, Cirium data shows.
SAA’s biggest international destinations measured by marketed seat capacity during January were all in Africa: Gaborone, Harare, Lusaka, Windhoek, Maputo and Accra.
And in terms of the number of flights, the first 19 of SAA’s 39 international destinations were on its home continent, Cirium data shows.
When SAA’s international flights are split by operator – rather than marketing airline – a different picture emerges, at least in terms of the number of flights operated by SAA itself.
In January, some 43% of international flights marketed by SAA were operated by Airlink. Those flights represented 20% of SAA’s international seats and 6% of its ASKs, reflecting the fact that they were operated by regional aircraft on short international sectors.
SA Express, meanwhile, operated 12% of SAA’s international flights, 7% of its seats and 2% of its ASKs.
INTERCONTINENTAL PROPORTIONS
Of SAA’s marketed international flights in January, 5% – or around 420 – were intercontinental, translating to 13% in terms of seats and 33% in terms of ASKs.
But when only considering international flights operated using SAA’s own metal, some 24% were intercontinental, which translates to 35% of seats (around 110,000) and 71% of ASKs.
So while the majority of SAA’s international focus has been on intra-Africa services in terms of marketed flights, Cirium data shows its seven non-African destinations in January – New York, London, Perth, Frankfurt, Munich, Sao Paulo and Washington DC – accounted for nearly three-quarters of the crucial international ASK measure when only its own metal is considered.
That means a significant proportion of SAA’s revenue has been tied up in the fiercely competitive landscape of intercontinental services, despite the number of such flights operated by the carrier having edged downwards in recent years amid restructuring efforts.
Indeed, on intercontinental services to South Africa in January, SAA accounted for 14% of flights, 10% of seats and 12% of ASKs, meaning it trailed Emirates and British Airways by most measures, Cirium data shows.
In the same month, Emirates was responsible for 17% of intercontinental flights, 22% of seats and 18% of ASKs, while BA was responsible for 11%, 13% and 14% respectively.
That SAA has struggled to get a foothold on intercontinental flights reflects a market opportunity that has concurrently proven to be a big challenge for the carrier: South Africa’s attractiveness as a destination. Therefore, while the country’s relatively advanced domestic economy and mobile population is a boon to air travel demand, many international carriers have long coveted – and taken – a piece of the long-haul market.
This is shown in the fact that United Airlines’ only flight to Africa in January was a Cape Town service, while Johannesburg was among just four African destinations served by Delta Air Lines during the same month.
Other international carriers serving South Africa with multiple daily frequencies in January included Qatar Airways, KLM, Lufthansa, Air France, Cathay Pacific, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Ethiopian, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, LATAM Airlines and Etihad.
DOMESTIC SPLIT
On domestic routes, SAA plays a significant role in a sector where few players were escaping financial woes even before the current crisis.
SAA accounted for 40% of domestic flights in January, or around 5,400, in terms of services marketed under its name, Cirium data shows.
Fewer than 1,300 of those flights were operated by SAA itself, however, with Airlink flying more than 3,000 and struggling SA Express operating more than 850. Indeed, under network cuts proposed by the carrier’s administrators in February, SAA would cut all domestic flights but its Johannesburg-Cape Town route.
Comair was the biggest South African domestic carrier in January in terms of flights operated, at around 3,800, Cirium data shows. Nearly 2,000 of those were operated for British Airways under a franchise agreement (which also includes a few regional services) and the rest under Comair’s Kulula low-cost carrier brand.
SAA subsidiary Mango – whose fortunes are likely to be closely tied to those of its parent – and FlySafair are also significant players in the domestic market, each accounting for more than 2,000 flights in January.
Cirium fleets data for mid-January this year shows that SAA had 41 passenger aircraft in service: seven Airbus A319s, 10 A320s, 10 A330s, 10 A340s and four A350s.
Cirium
Comunque nell'area abbiamo SAA e Air Mauritius in gravi difficolta'. Collegamenti assai difficili in effetti.
Tra l'altro sono in un certo modo interdipendenti luna dall'altra: MK aveva un accordo per fornire 2 dei suoi 350 a SAA, velivoli appena usciti dalla FAL di Tolosa.
Non credo che il governo Mauriziano farà mai fallire una compagnia a tutti gli effetti di stato.
Non credo che il governo Mauriziano farà mai fallire una compagnia a tutti gli effetti di stato.
....senza dimenticare che la meta piu gettonata dei viaggi di nozze è Sud Africa ed estensione mare a Mauritius....se chiudono bottega entrambe la situazione non è banale...
South African Airways to be replaced by new airline
By Maarten Van Den Driessche -3 May 2020
The South African government National Transport Movement (NTM) says a decision to shut down South African Airways and form a new airline has been reached.
In a statement, the Department of Public Enterprises said that the new airline would ideally have a mix of governmental and private ownership.
In terms of the agreement, the government will source 2.2 billion Rand (105 million euros) funding for severance packages.
The decision will result in the termination of all South African Airways employees’ contracts. Current South African Airways airline’s staff will be given preference for employment in the new airline.
The National Transport Movement (NTM) president, Mashudu Raphetha says, “It is a very sad day for the whole of the Republic that South African Airways is now going to shut down and we are now going to witness the emergence of the new airline.”
The union representing South African Airways flight attendants and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa are reportedly taking the airline to court; in an attempt to block the entrenchment process.
Source: SABC News
C'e' da chiedersi il senso di far fallire la SAA per aprirne un'altra; quantomeno se non siano piu' che chiare le motivazioni che han portato al fallimento, ovvero gli errori da non ripetere, dal Business Plan alla gestione finanziaria. Sara' cosi'?
By Maarten Van Den Driessche -3 May 2020
The South African government National Transport Movement (NTM) says a decision to shut down South African Airways and form a new airline has been reached.
In a statement, the Department of Public Enterprises said that the new airline would ideally have a mix of governmental and private ownership.
In terms of the agreement, the government will source 2.2 billion Rand (105 million euros) funding for severance packages.
The decision will result in the termination of all South African Airways employees’ contracts. Current South African Airways airline’s staff will be given preference for employment in the new airline.
The National Transport Movement (NTM) president, Mashudu Raphetha says, “It is a very sad day for the whole of the Republic that South African Airways is now going to shut down and we are now going to witness the emergence of the new airline.”
The union representing South African Airways flight attendants and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa are reportedly taking the airline to court; in an attempt to block the entrenchment process.
Source: SABC News
C'e' da chiedersi il senso di far fallire la SAA per aprirne un'altra; quantomeno se non siano piu' che chiare le motivazioni che han portato al fallimento, ovvero gli errori da non ripetere, dal Business Plan alla gestione finanziaria. Sara' cosi'?
Mica una brutta idea!
Apro ex-novo come voglio e con chi voglio, alla faccia di contratti errati, gestioni idiote e pomata vari, senza l'Italica buffonata di bad-old-mid-new-@zz company.
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Apro ex-novo come voglio e con chi voglio, alla faccia di contratti errati, gestioni idiote e pomata vari, senza l'Italica buffonata di bad-old-mid-new-@zz company.
Inviato dal mio WAS-LX1A utilizzando Tapatalk
Contrordine compagni (cit.), SAA non deve fallire!
https://simpleflying.com/south-african-airways-liquidation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Per la cronaca, in qualche articolo dei giorni scorsi SAA è stata definita “The southern emisphere Alitalia”...
https://simpleflying.com/south-african-airways-liquidation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Per la cronaca, in qualche articolo dei giorni scorsi SAA è stata definita “The southern emisphere Alitalia”...
Leaked SAA draft rescue plan details proposal to save airline
A draft rescue plan for South African Airways, made public by the Democratic Alliance opposition party, indicates agreement from the government to provide roughly R4 billion ($229 million) of additional funding to save the struggling carrier from liquidation.
SAA's business rescue practitioners, Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, confirm that they have issued a draft rescue plan to affected parties for comment and consultation, and that their deadline to publish the final document has been extended until 8 June. However, the rescuers decline to comment on the draft plan, which they say has been "leaked to the media" and should not have been circulated.
"Given that it is a draft and has not received agreement or comment from any of the relevant affected persons, we will not comment… and will await input from the affected parties as is prescribed by the Companies Act," state the joint rescue practitioners. "To assume and comment on this draft as if it is the final version would be very irresponsible."
The draft plan says the government has agreed to provide a R2 billion working capital injection to restart the airline when Covid-19-related travel restrictions are lifted, and a further R2 billion to fund the retrenchment of employees, if the plan is accepted by affected parties.
Additionally, the government has agreed to allocate R16.4 billion to repay lenders and R600 million towards payment of "general concurrent creditors", taking the total amount of funding to around R21 billion, the draft plan shows. However, the rescuers say the R16.4 billion was already granted in February for "guaranteed debt".
The proposal also calls for a new holding company to be established to preside over a restructured SAA, as well as four other units including maintenance arm SAA Technical and low-cost carrier Mango. It foresees the sale by the government of its entire shareholding in SAA and its four subsidiaries to the new holding company.
The draft foresees SAA's fleet halving to 22 aircraft by the third year of restructured operations. Rescuers do not expect the airline to be profitable until year four, and expect up to R20 billion of losses in the years leading up to that point.
According to the rescuers' proposal, "the costs of business rescue will be less than the costs of liquidation".
This assertion is challenged by the Democratic Alliance, however. The opposition party argues in a statement on its website, which includes a link to the draft rescue plan, that if the plan is approved, SAA "will continue to be a fiscal black hole for years to come".
It adds: "The insanity that is the 'rescue' of SAA, on the basis laid out by the BRPs [business-rescue practitioners], should not be given any serious consideration. The only credible course of action for the BRPs is to apply to court for the liquidation of SAA, as is required by Section 81 of the Companies Act."
Cirium
A draft rescue plan for South African Airways, made public by the Democratic Alliance opposition party, indicates agreement from the government to provide roughly R4 billion ($229 million) of additional funding to save the struggling carrier from liquidation.
SAA's business rescue practitioners, Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, confirm that they have issued a draft rescue plan to affected parties for comment and consultation, and that their deadline to publish the final document has been extended until 8 June. However, the rescuers decline to comment on the draft plan, which they say has been "leaked to the media" and should not have been circulated.
"Given that it is a draft and has not received agreement or comment from any of the relevant affected persons, we will not comment… and will await input from the affected parties as is prescribed by the Companies Act," state the joint rescue practitioners. "To assume and comment on this draft as if it is the final version would be very irresponsible."
The draft plan says the government has agreed to provide a R2 billion working capital injection to restart the airline when Covid-19-related travel restrictions are lifted, and a further R2 billion to fund the retrenchment of employees, if the plan is accepted by affected parties.
Additionally, the government has agreed to allocate R16.4 billion to repay lenders and R600 million towards payment of "general concurrent creditors", taking the total amount of funding to around R21 billion, the draft plan shows. However, the rescuers say the R16.4 billion was already granted in February for "guaranteed debt".
The proposal also calls for a new holding company to be established to preside over a restructured SAA, as well as four other units including maintenance arm SAA Technical and low-cost carrier Mango. It foresees the sale by the government of its entire shareholding in SAA and its four subsidiaries to the new holding company.
The draft foresees SAA's fleet halving to 22 aircraft by the third year of restructured operations. Rescuers do not expect the airline to be profitable until year four, and expect up to R20 billion of losses in the years leading up to that point.
According to the rescuers' proposal, "the costs of business rescue will be less than the costs of liquidation".
This assertion is challenged by the Democratic Alliance, however. The opposition party argues in a statement on its website, which includes a link to the draft rescue plan, that if the plan is approved, SAA "will continue to be a fiscal black hole for years to come".
It adds: "The insanity that is the 'rescue' of SAA, on the basis laid out by the BRPs [business-rescue practitioners], should not be given any serious consideration. The only credible course of action for the BRPs is to apply to court for the liquidation of SAA, as is required by Section 81 of the Companies Act."
Cirium
Mi sai dire che modello erano?
edit: mi rispondo da solo, sono 3 A320 che fanno manutenzione presso Adria Tehnika. La ditta non ha nulla a che fare con la defunta Adria Airways.
Ultima modifica:
Thanks, in ogni caso qui c'è una foto (allegato l'originale in quanto la ho scattata dalla distanza)
Quando dalla lontananza ho visto le code SAA ho pensato "e questi azz ci fanno qua?!"
credo sia la manutenzione prima di essere rimessi in circolo dal lessor. O più probabilmente al prato visto il momento.
Come da titolo, sospensione delle operazioni in attesa dei fondi per ristrutturare
www.aerotime.aero
SAA suspends operations, no funding found
South African Airways (SAA) is being put under “care and maintenance” by administrators in charge of its restructuring, meaning a complete stop of the carrier's operations.
