Aircraft

A South African Airways aircraft on the apron of Frankfurt Airport in 2018. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images If all goes according to plan, all SAA's leased aircraft would have been returned to lessors by the end of July.The planes the airline has kept, seem to be the least efficient and most costly ones…

A South African Airways aircraft on the apron of Frankfurt Airport in 2018. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images If all goes according to plan, all SAA's leased aircraft would have been returned to lessors by the end of July.The planes the airline has kept, seem to be the least efficient and most costly ones…

South African Airways has returned 17 aircraft to lessors so far.This is because the lessors have elected to initiate the termination of the leases, the state-owned airline's business rescue practitioners confirmed on Friday.The aircraft returned include four A319s; three A340-300s; three A340-600s; five A330-200s and two B737s.The airline is now left with three A319s, ten…

The U.S. deployed two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Pacific under new health procedures to guard against another coronavirus outbreak, as China’s military steps up its activity in the region. The deployments of the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz boost the U.S. naval presence in an area marked by tension with China over…