Latest articles on Mango Airlines

SAA Technical flies into salary storm

Article Sabelo Skiti - 23 Apr 2020

Maintenance division is first SAA subsidiary to declare hardship to staff as travel ban effects grow at the state-owned airline

SAA rescuers give affected parties two options: Wind down or liquidate

Article Sabelo Skiti - 23 Apr 2020

As SAA subsidiaries declare hardship to staff, business-rescue practitioners urge them to sign agreements to save severance payouts

SAA’s choice: Restructure and cut 2 200 jobs or liquidate and lose 4 700

Article Thando Maeko - 10 Mar 2020

The business rescue practitioners say 29 of the fleet of 48 planes, various routes and inefficient services also need to go in the state-owned airline is to survive

SAA workers told not to return to work next month

Article Thando Maeko - 13 Feb 2020

The airline’s employees in Durban have been told to join the unemployment queue on March 1 because the city’s route will be closed at the end of February

SAA cancels flights, moves ahead with restructuring

Article Thando Maeko - 6 Feb 2020

The struggling national carrier’s business rescue practitioners say the move to restructure the airline is a bid to return to profitability and to attract equity partners

SAA grounds flights due to low demand

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 21 Jan 2020

SAA is working to accommodate customers on its sister airlines after it cancelled flights due to low demand

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SAA to shed 944 jobs but pilots get pay rise totalling R100m

Article Sabelo Skiti - 12 Nov 2019

Three unions in the middle of negotiating wage increases say the airline had not told them of its decision to retrench staff

SAA CEO: All we ask is three years – and money

Article Carin Smith - 4 Jun 2018

Jarana said there is now a “date in the future” where SAA will break even

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SA airlines already working together amid merger talks — Gordhan

Article Khulekani Magubane - 28 May 2018

South Africa has been abuzz with the potential consequences of merging Mango Airlines with SA Express and South African Airways

SAA doubles back in subsidy saga

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jun 2016

And questions remain about whether taxpayers are funding not just one but two loss-making airlines.

Bezuidenhout: They knew I had no degree

Article Sapa - 26 Nov 2014

SAA acting chief executive says his colleagues at Mango Airlines and SAA knew he did not have a degree and they supported him.

Mango defends SAA acting CEO’s academic details

Article Sapa - 25 Nov 2014

Mango Airlines says the academic credentials of South African Airways acting chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout is accurate, contrary to media reports.

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Former Mango CFO loses bid to get job back

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Nov 2013

Former chief financial officer of Mango Airlines, Headman Manziya, has failed in a last-ditch attempt to get his job back, according to a report.

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Monwabisi Kalawe appointed as new SAA head

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Apr 2013

South African Airways has appointed seasoned corporate leader Monwabisi Kalawe as its new chief executive, says the state-owned airline.

Globe-hopping toad finds new home in SA

Article Sapa Ap - 22 Dec 2012

A toad, nicknamed Jack B Nimble, has miraculously survived many weeks and thousands of kilometres of travel from China to South Africa.

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