SAA Hostess Steals from Pax

[Gunship]

If they are not enough in the news ... :}

An SAA hostess accused of stealing travellers cheques, jewellery and an undisclosed sum of cash from a passenger's hand luggage appears on a theft charge in court on Monday.

The 26-year-old was arrested on Friday afternoon shortly after she disembarked from an SAA long-haul flight from London to Cape Town.

"We were tipped off by someone (who allegedly saw) what had happened. The hostess was searched during a check at the arrivals terminal. She had in her possession travellers cheques to the value of R20 000, a gold ring valued at R10 000 and some cash and was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of stolen property," police spokesperson Randall Stoffels said.

Approached for comment SAA spokesperson Onkgopotse Tabane said: "The person faces a charge of theft. We view this matter in a very serious light. When something like this happens we discipline the employee, but I do not want to pre-empt this matter as it is under investigation."

[sky waiter]

Ha ha, do they not get paid enough?

They certainly are get more than me and i'm just a lowly pilot instructor, i suppose the JOb just got boring... :yuk: :yuk:

[canthover]

What do you expect if the big boss spends big money on helicopter flights, jets to cross the channel and lives it up in fancy hotels in England.

[The Operator]

Could this be a kind of "silent airport tax"? Unheard of until the hand gets caught in the cookie jar. :p

[raytheon_aircraft]

thats unlucky, she HAD a half decent job and now shes stuffed. no jobs are avaliable out there for people with criminal records.

[Rhodie]

Ray-A..

Not in your company, or mine - but sadly she is virtually assured of a job in government... :mad:

Chief of Metro Police - convicted criminal
27 officers of same - convicted criminals

Marketing DIRECTOR of, shall we just say, a certain (government) tourism organisation - convicted of R2.5 million fraud,

Members of Parliament - convicted of fraud (the "Travelgate" scandal as the press called it),

Various Mayors, councillors etc - all convicted of any number of crimes..

and on, and on......

R

[oneeyed]

She is certainly in good company then and might have a serious career boost - remember there is honour amongst thiefs !:yuk:

[V1 Rotate]

NOTHING LIKE A BIT OF AFFIRMATIVE SHOPPING !!!

V1:8 :8

[Beechdrivr]

Go to agree with you Rhodie, that's the way it works over here, you'll propably find that she is gonna be found not guilty (apartheid will be blamed of course) and promoted!!! Just you see!!!

[jbayfan]

Sort of like the SAA FO (EE model) who was caught with a few kgs of heroin in a hidden compartment in his flight bag and accused the Captain of planting it there!! He is still running around even though he should be in jail.

[Whenwe]

This has been going on for some time.
A couple of years ago I was on a SAA flight to Atlanta. On the flight to Seattle I discovered that most of my cash dollars had dissapeared from my wallet. I had no idea how or where this could have happened.
I met up with a SAA B767 crew in Seattle during their Sim training and told them about my loss.
They told me then about this huge problem that SAA have. Whether this is the first one they caught or if there were others I don't know.
It makes me sick!!

[Goldfish Jack]

Of course one does not want to get too emotional in this, as theft is theft, and that seems to be the general pasttime in this land nowadays, but one has to ask where was she arrested?

If she was arrested whilst still in the international side, ie the air side, she will well be able to get off on a technicallity - her defence would be that she was going to hand the stuff in at the bank and lost property. You laugh, but this is true.

It would have been a different case, had she been arrested once, she had landed and left the building. Then it is too late to hand the stuff in and that is theft - no doubt about that.

One wonders where she was actually arrested. Dont get me wrong I am not defending her, but as is often the case, people are arrested too quickly and they are able to get off on technicalities.

Theft is theft and I think guilty parties should be put away for a long time, but one hopes the powers that be did their work properly. The law must also run its way.

[Gunship]

More disgruntled South African Airways passengers have come forward with allegations of theft on board the carrier's London's fights, after the arrest of an air hostess

Ful Story .. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050601065810321C676688

[Skaz]

as if its not bad enough in RSA, now its being exported too! :}

[B Sousa]

Here we go again Guns....Lots of posts but no surprises..........Whos running the country now??
I cant see things getting any better.....(Rand stopped today at 6.91/$)

[Kapt. Ive]

I simply don't understand how people can still be talking about "things getting better" in South Africa ??? :confused:

[bushpilot]

Granted that unemployment is north of 30% and inflation is about 5% (not so bad actually), u do have 50% of the population below the poverty level (which was greater duing apartheid era), so u will have some major problems (Crime, Aids, corruption, all the vices that come in a value pack due to poverty etc...).

Hopefully this turbulence will not last forever. I think ZA has come along way since the end of apartheid, and things will only get better. According to the B*ll S*itter pessimists that "predicted" a civil war when ANC took over, things aren't so bad.

According to economists, the economy is actually booming, unless I've been reading some major propaganda :suspect: Alot of the people who think things in ZA are not getting better simply miss the good ol Botha days when the majority were not even considered in the economic equation. Nothing against anyone here, but usually the road to positive change is not always so smooth. Alot of African countries have been and are far worse off to be in than ZA. Lets stay positive. :E

[B Sousa]

I see a post of mine got dumped. It obviously hit home and was in answer to Bush Pilots Statement "Alot of African countries have been and are far worse off to be in than ZA"

Telling the truth today is NOT Politically Correct.

[4HolerPoler]

I'm sorry Bert - it's been made clear in the past - we cannot allow the reference to "black" or "white" or for that matter any cultural ring-fencing. This forum prides itself in being a multi-cultural discussion forum where the color of one's skin is transparent.

Keep it that way.

4HP

[B Sousa]

OK, understand 4hp, but its a fact not an accusation. A good majority of the whining on this forum is brought about by just that issue.
So ...moving on, let me repeat part of my dumped posting as it did not refer to color...........
An incident that occured to me was at JNB where as I was going through the screening to board for MZ, I was instructed to place my wallet on a tray and the lady would take it through. I thought that very strange but since it did not have any money I thought I would see what would happen. When the tray came around the machine a mat had been placed over my wallet. Had I been in a hurry or not paying attention, Im sure that the screeners would have shared the contents.
That should smooth things a bit..........

[SASless]

Bert,

A very funny story popped to mind after reading the last couple of posts. The funny part is so transparent that any effort to disguise it would be seen through instantly however. I may give it a whirl if I can figure out how to avoid having the telling of an interaction between two uniquely different people be construed as offending boundaries of decorum so stated by 4hp. A description of the personality of the two done only to set the stage for that event that occurred would create a mental image of the two that in itself would remove that transparency sought by 4hp. But for the life of me....I just cannot find a way to tell it without fostering that mental image in the readers mind. Thus, a funny African yarn bites the dust. I will send you an e-mail and tell you the story outside the forum here.

[4HolerPoler]

Thanks guys - back to the topic if you're ready. Any news on our light-fingered lady?

4HP

[Rhodie]

She's become transparent...

'Nobody saw nuuuhting' :E :E :E

sorry, 4HP..... :p

Cheers

R

[Dr Know]

This all happens on flights where there is a possibility of being caught by one or more awake pax... Wait till you fly into JNB and you have to wait for your luggage. Now that's when the SALE is on when it comes to shopping through your personals!!:}

Will it ever stop... ah forget it!

[Gunship]

I know I started the thread and it is lekker to shoot down the New SA / SAA and all those things :}

Sadly Dr Know I must report that having flown through 3 x 64 page passports I have NEVER , EVER lost ANYTHING on ANY flight in / out of Africa.

London Hattrick .. well that is three sad losses of around £12k !

Sorry I had to highlight but that is my story on theft.

F:mad: k the f:mad: ers at LGW that stole so many times from me and a lot f African pax.

We never, ever get a complain here in Ghana or SL !!! - take that ... :E

Cheers

Gunssss

[B Sousa]

Guns
Every major city in the world has folks preying on tourists. I have been ripped off in Paris and so on.......
I live in a Tourism Capitol La$ Vega$ and the jails are full of stories............
Nobody is picking on SAA or SA. Its just that most folks are not used to being ripped off by the Trolly Dolly.

[rags]

She will be found gulty by a old racist judge, the ANCYL, SACP COCK SAT O will toytoy and she will become the new P of the non racist, non governed , no law system RSA What a nice new car ear

[Solid Rust Twotter]

Eh?

Lunchtime beer sneaking up on us, is it?:E :ok:

[bushpilot]

Is it just me or is anyone else unable to decipher that language..........:}

[Beta Light]

It's not just the theft on S.A.A. Guns. Airport crime is a world wide business, but it is the wide spread theft from govermnment coffers to the $20 I try to send in the post to my cousin for Xmas that got raided in the post- 3 times!!