Labour representatives argue that the state airline just ‘expects 78% of workers to accept one week’s pay’ for each year worked

Airline brought back from the brink as rescue practitioners and Gordhan agree to work on a rescue plan by the end of June

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

Employees at the embattled state-owned airline have been forced to take leave as SAA cancels all flights during South Africa’s lockdown

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

The airline’s business rescue practitioners ignored a warning not to announce route closures and possible job cuts ahead of a restructuring plan

The Labour Court dismisses an application by Numsa and Sacca to have planned job cuts at SAA scrapped

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

Business rescue is unlikely to work for a state-owned airline, say experts. But the government has no money for bailouts