The truth about flying in South Africa right now: Airlink CEO

While the grounding of airline company Comair, and subsequent closure has created a gap in domestic travel in South Africa, Airlink chief executive Rodger Foster argues that there was likely already too much capacity for domestic travel in the current economic environment.

“For me, that is an indicator of the unsustainability of the industry generally. While the 40% of flights possibly need to come back, not all of it . The industry needs to be sustainable, it needs to be affordable and it needs to be reliable and safe – and it obviously couldn’t on the basis that we had all these airline failures.”

“The market has lost about 9,000 seats a week,” Kirby Gordon, chief marketing officer at FlySafair, said in the statement. Adding the new planes “will help to plug this gap.” Foster’s comments come after Airlink signed a codeshare agreement with Middle-Eastern airline Qatar Airways to expand its operations in South Africa.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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