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Grounded: A British Airways plane at OR Tambo International Airport. Comair could not be rescued and SAA is still building up its number of flights. Photos: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images/ Bloomberg
ACSA

After Comair, how will the South African aviation industry fare?

Local ticket prices have risen by at least 35% to 40% as a result of Comair’s collapse

  • Anathi Madubela
7 min read
It’s a history littered with lessons and crumbs of what was to become the SAA privatised. (Oupa Nkosi)
AIR TANZANIA

Africa’s national airlines face troubled skies

The continent’s aviation industry won’t survive unless countries start cooperating with each other

  • Andrew Langford
4 min read
SAA is about to be closed, which will pave the way for a new airline. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
APARTHEID

SAA rescue costs us social reforms

As with the ban on SAA flying to the United States in 1986, political pragmatism will eventually be trumped by economic realities

  • Khaya Sithole
7 min read
AIR CHINA

Beijing opens multibillion-dollar air terminal

Beijing has opened a huge new ,6-billion airport terminal ahead of the expected influx of millions of visitors to this summer’s Olympics, part of a multibillion-dollar…

  • Ben Blanchard
3 min read
AIR CHINA

Beijing opens new $3,6-billion air terminal

Beijing opened a huge new ,6-billion airport terminal on Friday ahead of the expected influx of millions of visitors to this summer’s Olympics, part of a multibillion…

  • Ben Blanchard
2 min read