'I loved my job, Comair was like a family': employee

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'I loved my job, Comair was like a family': employee
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“It’s a lot, it's heartbreaking, it’s overwhelming and sad. Comair was like my home, but I also believe God has bigger plans for me,” says Jamain Doravaloo from Phoenix in Durban, who worked at Comair for the past 12 years.

“It’s a lot, it's heartbreaking, it’s overwhelming and sad. Comair was like my home, but I also believe God has bigger plans for me.”

He said Comair was one of the best companies he had worked for, given the training and the skills he had acquired while at the company. “The pension fund is a separate company. Pension funds have their own rules, but I have not come across any such fund that doesn’t pay immediately on dismissal or retrenchment of employees.Comair was founded in 1943, it is a viable business which has more than 40% share of the aviation marketComair, which went into business rescue when the Covid-19 pandemic hit air travel, had a consortium which previously agreed to invest R500m in return for most of the company, while a further R1.

When Doravaloo joined Comair, his initial plan was to stay in the company for at least five years, acquire the experience and move on, but working in the aviation sector and for a company like Comair changed his plans.

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