Is this guy for real?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:33 pm
I see Santaco have just officially launched their airline. Some quotes from the News24 story:
Aviation was a tough industry to break into, but Santaco would "travel where everyone else is scared to travel"...
He said the low-cost airline was bringing dignity to people whose only experience of aviation had been seeing a plane fly above their rooftops. The main customers would be people without a car and large income. The airline might also cater to people wishing to travel with their goats...
On Friday, the Democratic Alliance welcomed the airline as an affordable option, but cautioned on the operator being used, AirQuarius Air Charters.
"An internal memo from the Civil Aviation Authority and various supporting documents show that AirQuarius was provided with a fraudulent airworthiness inspection document in 2010," DA transport spokesperson Manny de Freitas said.
"The airworthiness inspector whose falsified signature appears on the inspection document was not even aware that the operator was at the airport where the inspection purportedly took place."
Only in South Africa!
Aviation was a tough industry to break into, but Santaco would "travel where everyone else is scared to travel"...
He said the low-cost airline was bringing dignity to people whose only experience of aviation had been seeing a plane fly above their rooftops. The main customers would be people without a car and large income. The airline might also cater to people wishing to travel with their goats...
On Friday, the Democratic Alliance welcomed the airline as an affordable option, but cautioned on the operator being used, AirQuarius Air Charters.
"An internal memo from the Civil Aviation Authority and various supporting documents show that AirQuarius was provided with a fraudulent airworthiness inspection document in 2010," DA transport spokesperson Manny de Freitas said.
"The airworthiness inspector whose falsified signature appears on the inspection document was not even aware that the operator was at the airport where the inspection purportedly took place."
Only in South Africa!
