Majority of respondents not seeing flight disruptions

A slight majority of respondents to our latest poll have not witnessed an increase in flight disruptions for their clients’ trips to South Africa despite airlines highlighting the negative impacts of ATNS failures this year.

A total of 53% of respondents said, over the past six months, they had not experienced a notable increase in flight disruptions. However, illustrating that the ATNS struggles have not gone unnoticed, 47% of respondents said they noticed an increase in disruptions.

Airlines Association of South Africa (AASA) CEO Aaron Munetsi previously highlighted that one of AASA’s members reported 3 892 delayed flights, 77 cancelled flights and 12 diversions between July 19 (when instrument flight procedures were withdrawn)…