Actually Safair maintenance is not great , they maintained the SAA B737 freighters for a while and things were very shoddy, in fact pressure came from the pilots to ground the freight operation until the issues were sorted out from a safety point of view, needless to say they no longer maintain the fluffies.

If the snap poll on news 24 is anything to go by, new business might be a wee bit tight proposition for the moment but pax have short memories. If Nationwide can save people a penny over another airline- then people will fly it. Simple as that. It's nothing to do with passengers "seeing something they like and keep coming back for more" More what? Truth be told- all flying is an ordeal for pax (except on Mango- It's torture) so it's mostly all about price or points (Oneworld or Star alliance) Some full service airlines consistently beat Nationwide in price and offer a better product. Example- SAA's saver fares and these include refreshments- something you pay extra for on Nationwide. In any case we need Nationwide flying again soon to keep domestic fares competitive across the board.

NW is back
 

Who - ho -- NW is back - they fly on Friday.
Other planes to fly on Safir clearance - well done.

Siguarda sent to the cooler for a week & a few personal rant posts removed. Keep it nice guys.

Any reliable info when they will resume domestic ops again ?

Safair maintenance!!!

Their best tool is the MEL/DDM.

Remember years ago how they changed an FCU on the grass and for good measure used the old o-rings in the replacement unit.

The work was promptly signed out..................

Nationwide will now learn what maintenance problems mean.................

Cold Shivers
 

I think when we heard the news firs last Saturday, we ALL got that horrible feeling in our guts, (like when you made poo at school...) and immediately thought: Where will i get my house-bond money from, school fees, medical aid, food!
We empathise with you guys, and pray for a quicker rise to the skies.
Also, we don't want you flooding the market..... JUST JOKING!!! Bad joke I know.:=
It would make the rumouring less effective if SAA was not in the same payroll as the CAA though.....

Good luck to all the staff at NW.:D

Just heard on the news that NW's B767 been given clean bill of health and can resume flights this weekend to LHR and also do some domestic flights the help with the backlog. Hope it is true and the rest of the fleet will follow soon. Will be great to hear NW callsign again in the air...where it belongs.:D:ok::D:ok:

NW resume dom flying as soon as A/C released by safair/caa,should, although at half throttle, until demand picks up, start early next week.

Surely if they could have released the 767 since yesterday morning, then there should be at least another aircraft released by now (friday afternoon). Saw on the news last night, they had a clip where you could see inspectors checking a 737-500. I would have thought about 1 aircraft a day released, would be better to have the 2 737-500s and 727-200 back in the air asap.

You thought right, thats whats happening.

ntw
 

you must realy keep up . safair is doing the maint en the 767 is flying again

Has any other aircraft been released by now?

Just been doing a quick check on flights for the rest of the week on their website...seems to have 1 flight a day to CPT and DUR on Wed (12) and Thurs (13).
On Friday (14th) then 1 flight to each destination JNB-CPT, DUR, PLZ, MQP and LVI, and CPT-PLZ-DUR...but 3 727-200 flights to GRJ!!!???

Nationwide 737-500 has just landed at GRJ, first flight in 11 days to GRJ. Looking at their website it seems that JNB-GRJ flights is back to normal as of today, with 2 daily flights (saying there 727-200, but guess it'll first be with 735)...while both JNB-CPT and JNB-DUR is only to receive 1 flight a day for the next few days.

Don't worry, Nationwide management are already looking for new and innovative ways to balls it up. Already a balls up on the GRJ flight. 5 pax down? 1 pax up?!?! Nationwide succeeds despite it's managers, not because of them...*sigh*, managers...:ugh: (they no doubt go 'pilots, :ugh:')...speaking from experience though, other companies have their moments too...

You saying 1 pax on the return leg?!?!? Eina bliksem!!!! That cannot do the bank statement any favours but I guess they have no choice, the airies must fly to get the word out!

Don't get me wrong - there were, and still are, plenty of pax available. I'm told they just made a bugger-up with the times, hence they took what they had.

What are the pax numbers like? Are the public still flying
with them or is a brutal marketing campaign needed to keep
the numbers up?

I'm trying to get a refund from Nationwide at the moment, although I emailed them 9 days ago with details and again today, but had no response.

Had booked to fly PLZ-CPT on the 21st, but due to the uncertainty of the situation and that there are 5 in my party and we have an international flight to connect onto, I had to rebook with another carrier while they still had seats available as if we left it later and they didn't start operating again then we would have been stuck !!.

Glad to hear they are back in the air again. Flown with CE quite a few times and always had good service with them. Just hope they can continue that good service and process my refund soon.

:hmm: