I had a asked about the SAA crews in another forum
and was told that they would not be flying Lo-co at all.
However my question is this - If the expansion is going to happen as planned i.e. from 4 - 10 aircraft in <1year where are the pax going to come from. Even though most of the key economic fundamentals point to growth, I simply don't see this level of growth happening. The Lo-co market is now far more mature - domestically speaking anyway.
So surely there has to be a casualty - Nationwide and/or 1-Time?
If SAA Lo-co has identified these areas of growth to be regional as opposed to just domestic then this would beg the question of BASA's as this airline is meant to be independent of SAA so surely couldn't be automatically granted rights on existing BASA's. Which then leads me to ask whether any one knows if the new airline has an AOC yet? SUrely now that we're in August and they want to fly November - that's not much time.
I'm sure that messers Bricknell and Novack et al will be making many a telephone call to their lawyers in the coming months.