Mango Airlines is now fully operational, and Comair expects its full fleet to be back in operation by October 23 with normal operations expected, while some SAA aircraft are still grounded following a directive issued by the South African Civil Aviation Authority relating to irregular findings picked up during an audit at South African Airways Technical.
"Mango Airlines can confirm that following minor disruptions experienced yesterday, we are now fully-operational," says Sergio Dos Santos, Mango Airlines spokerperson.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said in a briefing on the matter on October 22 that all flights affected by the day's grounding would be fully restored by the end of the week, as reported by Businesslive.
Mbalula said that the grounding of the flights was not a crisis.
"The point for everyone is that we shouldn't panic. These matters are being attended to. Before the end of the week, everything will be back to normal, in fact, there's minimal interruption of airlines".
Operations were affected at all three airlines, with SAA cancelling four domestic flights.
Mango issued a statement in which it expressed confidence that the affected aircraft would be in service during the course of October 22.
