Airlink is privately owned, but has published the names of its shareholders: Sishen Iron Ore Company Community Development Trust (32.51%) Coronation Capital. SA Airlink Investments (Rodger Foster)
SAA is in a death spiral as government struggles to get R2 billion from banks to keep its operations going. The airline is bleeding money, and made massive losses over recent years, with taxpayers having to fork out more than R25 billion in bailouts and guaranteed loans.
SA Airlink will soon offer flights between OR Tambo airport and the holiday town of Margate on KZN's south coast. The Ray Nkonyeni municipality on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast plans to sign a contract with SA Airlink to open a route between Margate and OR Tambo International Airport next month.
SAA Codeshare Partners
- Air Canada. Airline Code: AC.
- Air China. Airline Code: CA.
- Air Mauritius. Airline Code: MK.
- Air New Zealand. Airline Code: NZ.
- Air Seychelles. Airline Code: HM.
- All Nippon Airways (ANA) Airline Code: NH.
- Asiana Airlines. Airline Code: OZ.
- Egypt Air. Airline Code: MS.
A total of 12 major routes have been
cancelled, and will be removed from
flight schedules on 29 February 2020.
Where SAA will still fly to from South Africa
- Blantyre (Malawi)
- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Frankfurt (Germany)
- Harare (Zimbabwe)
- Kinshasha (Congo)
- Lagos (Nigeria)
- Lilongwe (Malawi)
- London Heathrow (UK)
SA Airlink will soon offer flights between OR Tambo airport and the holiday town of Margate on KZN's south coast. The Ray Nkonyeni municipality on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast plans to sign a contract with SA Airlink to open a route between Margate and OR Tambo International Airport next month.
Don't confuse us with SA Express, says SA Airlink. "Airlink is completely independent and not to be confused with the State-owned feeder airline, SA Express, which the Johannesburg High Court ruled should be placed in Business Rescue."
All Airlink flights are marketed by SAA under the SA code (hence SAA codeshare), but Airlink are not part of Star Alliance. You simply bought an SAA codeshare. FF programs work through the marketing carrier, not operating carrier.
Airlink continues with abandoned SAA routes, readies for court action. SAA's business rescue practitioners (BRPs) announced earlier on Thursday that the embattled airline would be cancelling all of its domestic routes from the end of February, apart from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
South African Airways (SAA) announced its decision to suspend all its domestic flights with effect from Friday, 27 March until 16 April 2020 (inclusive). The decision came after government announced a nation-wide lockdown for 21 days aimed at combatting the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
SA Airlink (Pty) Ltd., known and trading simply as Airlink, is a regional airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is privately owned, and its main activity is to act as a feeder airline between small towns and larger hub airports.
Privately-run South African airline Airlink will operate services linking Johannesburg with Port Elizabeth, Entebbe, Ndola and Luanda after February 29, 2020, even though its franchise partner, South African Airways, will stop serving those destinations from that date.
While SA Express is grounded, three partner airlines - SAA, Mango Airlines and SA Airlink - collaborated to try and mitigate the impact of the suspension on its services and to ensure business continuity. SA Express was already grounded for a short period 2017.
SA Express Airways is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Department of Public Enterprise.
SAA's business rescue practitioners (BRPs) announced earlier on Thursday that the embattled airline would be cancelling all of its domestic routes from the end of February, apart from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
