SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
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SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
1. SAA Maintenance gone to the dogs.
2. SAA Technical admitted to a “security breach” caused by criminal enterprises who are looting “hundreds of millions of rands” from the airliners, benefitting from dishing out the faulty items. Such blatant disregard for safety could put thousands of lives at risk.
Comair, the BA franchise in SA, have recently cancelled their maintenance contract with SAA Tech, and now have their maintenance done in Europe!
Something not mentioned in either article, what is the SA CAA doing about this?
1. SAA Maintenance gone to the dogs.
2. SAA Technical admitted to a “security breach” caused by criminal enterprises who are looting “hundreds of millions of rands” from the airliners, benefitting from dishing out the faulty items. Such blatant disregard for safety could put thousands of lives at risk.
Comair, the BA franchise in SA, have recently cancelled their maintenance contract with SAA Tech, and now have their maintenance done in Europe!
Something not mentioned in either article, what is the SA CAA doing about this?
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
What is needed, and quickly, is for the USA & EU to ban SAA flights till this is sorted.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Weren't Southwest discovered to be doing this when they started doing maintenance in Mexico?
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Lufthansa Technik have set up a facility in ZA for the Comair contract.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
SAA have dropped most of their European services already, don’t think that it would affect them too much
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But the ones they kept are the most profitable.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
SAA would lose money if they ran a casino!
I don't think that any of their routes make a profit.
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LHR is a massive loss maker.
From memory their only other EU routes are FRA and MUC.
From memory their only other EU routes are FRA and MUC.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
October 19-April 20 Direct LHR to ZA
Virgin- 2 flights per day
BA 5 flights per day
SAA 1 flight per day
Then there’s lots via the Sandpit and also Turkish
Virgin- 2 flights per day
BA 5 flights per day
SAA 1 flight per day
Then there’s lots via the Sandpit and also Turkish
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
and Ethiopian.
Are the BA 5, 2 to Joburg, 2 to CT and 1 to Durban?
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Yes, but actually the Durban isn’t daily, but there’s a LGW- CPT 4 times a week as well, so for the sake of argument 5 flights per day from London to ZA.Are the BA 5, 2 to Joburg, 2 to CT and 1 to Durban?
Edit- the JNB flights are both A380 and the CPT from LHR are 747.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
To which I would add that the BA flights are generally within a few seats of being full in all classes, the SAA flight often has dozens of empty seats.
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Don’t I know it, virtually given up trying to get to CPT direct , even with over 20 years serviceCapetonian wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:47 amTo which I would add that the BA flights are generally within a few seats of being full in all classes,
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
So 16.5% of the BA A380 fleet spends all day on the tarmac at Jan Smuts/Joburg Intl/OR Tambo!
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Over 300 premium class seats per day must cover the costs.So 16.5% of the BA A380 fleet spends all day on the tarmac at Jan Smuts/Joburg Intl/OR Tambo!
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Re: SAA Technical Fitting Counterfeit Parts?
Seats unsold tonight :
FLT-ROUTE-UNSOLD-CAPACITY
BA058 CPT LHR 042/336
BA059 LHR CPT 002/336
BA057 LHR JNB 000/274
BA055 LHR JNB 000/469
BA041 LHR DUR 003/214
SA235 LHR JNB 010/249
SA234 JNB LHR 049/249
Makes SAA's load look pretty, specially when a lot of the premium pax are travelling on freebies/cheapies.
FLT-ROUTE-UNSOLD-CAPACITY
BA058 CPT LHR 042/336
BA059 LHR CPT 002/336
BA057 LHR JNB 000/274
BA055 LHR JNB 000/469
BA041 LHR DUR 003/214
SA235 LHR JNB 010/249
SA234 JNB LHR 049/249
Makes SAA's load look pretty, specially when a lot of the premium pax are travelling on freebies/cheapies.