Update on Mango's potential relaunch

[Jan]

Good news for flight prices — Mango could soon prepare for take-off

Nearly three years and numerous government-imposed delays later, South African Airways' (SAA's) sale of budget airline Mango to a private entity is set to proceed, paving the way for a potential return to the skies.

Mango has been grounded since it entered business rescue in July 2021, following a punishing period of inactivity and constrained operations during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

[neoprema]

Airlink, Lift, Safair, CemAir - what exactly is Mango going to bring to the party in a re-launch that will make it lucrative? Other than some old 737-800s.

 

[Flanders]

Airlink, Lift, Safair, CemAir - what exactly is Mango going to bring to the party in a re-launch that will make it lucrative? Other than some old 737-800s.

Cheaper domestic flights for us, hopefully.

 

[Vorastra]

Airlink, Lift, Safair, CemAir - what exactly is Mango going to bring to the party in a re-launch that will make it lucrative? Other than some old 737-800s.

An extra packet of peanuts.

 

[Fuzzbox]

All that's left is the dried PIP.

Funny how this pops up days after SAA deal falls through.

 

[mpdjhb]

Prices are already not too bad - its almost as cheap to fly Lanseria to Cape Town than it is to take an Uber from Sandton to Lanseria

 

[WalkWithMe]

Good news for flight prices — Mango could soon prepare for take-off

Nearly three years and numerous government-imposed delays later, South African Airways' (SAA's) sale of budget airline Mango to a private entity is set to proceed, paving the way for a potential return to the skies.

Mango has been grounded since it entered business rescue in July 2021, following a punishing period of inactivity and constrained operations during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jan

Takatso Consortium Deal is off for over a week now.

Global pulled out of the consortium a year ago and Lift was out the deal for over a year.

 

[neoprema]

Cheaper domestic flights for us, hopefully.

If 4 airlines can't do that or aren't doing that, a 5th is not going to.

 

[neoprema]

Jan

Takatso Consortium Deal is off for over a week now.

Global pulled out of the consortium a year ago and Lift was out the deal for over a year.

Can't blame them? They wine and dine and spend millions flying idiot gov officials and their wives all over the place for meetings. Ages go by with no movement and when the final pressure is in, the idiots put the price up lol. They have a shared IQ of 1.

 

[Flanders]

If 4 airlines can't do that or aren't doing that, a 5th is not going to.

I'm running on pure hopium on that one.

 

[RonSwanson]

All that's left is the dried PIP.

Funny how this pops up days after SAA deal falls through.

Indeed.

 

[RonSwanson]

Good news for flight prices — Mango could soon prepare for take-off

Nearly three years and numerous government-imposed delays later, South African Airways' (SAA's) sale of budget airline Mango to a private entity is set to proceed, paving the way for a potential return to the skies.

Mango has been grounded since it entered business rescue in July 2021, following a punishing period of inactivity and constrained operations during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The only way to make Mango fly again