SA Airlink objects to new routes for SA Express
SA Airlink has turned to the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) in an urgent bid to halt SA Express from embarking on additional routes into Africa.
According to a report in The Mercury, SA Airlink said SA Express was insolvent and several of its planes had been grounded.
The International Air Services Council in September granted the airline permission to expand its international services operations to include several additional routes.
These are seven return flights from Cape Town International Airport to Gaborone and Botswana each week; three from OR Tambo International Airport to Luanda and Angola; and seven from Johannesburg to Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
SA Airlink wanted the inclusion of these additional routes suspended until the outcome of an application to be heard later to review and set aside the decision permitting the additional routes.
Although the matter was called in court, SA Airlink indicated it was withdrawing the first (urgent) part of the application. This comes after the Competition Commission indicated it was looking into competition in the domestic and regional air service markets.
In light of the intervention by the Competition Commissioner, it was not clear if and when SA Airlink would pursue its review application.
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