OR Tambo and other airports racing to get ready for the December high season.

This week leading up to the school holidays there was not a single seat available on a direct flight with any airline in SA from Johannesburg to Cape Town until tomorrow. The same demand is expected over the December festive season says Kirby Gordon, chief marketing officer at FlySafair.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and at least 11 passengers travelled at huge cost on an SAA A340 passenger jet to the Southern African Development Community summit in Kinshasa this week because none of the air force VIP fleet is serviceable.

Airlines owned by governments are more likely to be unsuccessful, unless they are managed independently, says Mesfin Tasew, group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines (EA).

A judge and two aviation specialists will have to adjudicate the findings and appeals of an investigation into a tragic accident in January 2020 when the SA Civil Aviation Authority’s calibration aircraft crashed into the Outeniqua mountains near George.

Glencore was this week quick to emphasise that the $1.2bn (about R19bn) in admittance of guilt fines for its nefarious schemes of “bribes for business” issued by the US department of justice will not affect its South African business.

Airlines are spending as much as R1.5m on each flight to divert their aircraft for refuelling in Durban and Airports Company SA is refusing to waive the extra landing and handling fees.

A directive issued by Canadian authorities has shed more light on the cause of the Netcare air ambulance crash that killed five people in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this year.