Jubilant SA Airways (SAA) staff at the country's biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline took to the skies for the first time in about a year.
State-owned SAA's long-standing financial woes were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and it halted all operations last September when it ran out of funds. The company exited administration in April thanks to another massive government bailout.
“After so many months we've been waiting for this moment, I am so excited. I am over the moon,” Mapula Ramatswi, an SAA flight attendant, said at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport.Ramatswi said the many months when SAA was grounded were difficult financially, but her family had helped her pull through.
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