SAA has issued a statement confirming that all flight schedules are back to normal.
The majority of the airline’s aircraft that were previously identified for compliance checks are back in service and all flights are now operating on schedule.
Twenty-one of 25 SAA aircraft underwent compliance checks required by the SA Civil Aviation Authority and the process resulted in an 84% completion rate of the identified aircraft.
SAA confirmed that those still being processed in an extended maintenance service would not affect operations “as they were not included in the schedule to allow for routine maintenance”.
The airline apologises for the inconvenience caused during the past two days and will continue to update customers on an ongoing basis.
The statement went on to “assure all customers that despite the compliance verification process on a specified number of aircraft by the maintenance subsidiary, South African Airways Technical, all the airline’s aircraft are airworthy and normal operations have been restored”.
