South African flights disrupted after safety audit finds faultsA South African Airways Airbus A340-300 plane prepares to take off at the O. R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, South Africa, June 7, 2019. It did not disclose what the faults were or which aircraft type was affected, citing confidentiality agreements. SAA said in a statement it had canceled four domestic flights but that it would combine flights and deploy bigger aircraft to accommodate affected passengers. SAA mainly operates Airbus aircraft on its passenger routes, while subsidiary Mango Airlines operates Boeing aircraft, he said. At 1000 GMT kulula.com’s website showed that eight domestic flights had been rescheduled, one under the kulula.com brand and seven under the British Airways brand.

Source: Standard Digital October 22, 2019 11:37 UTC