The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) dismissed claims made by a pilots’ association that the South African Airways flight transporting a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines was an unnecessary expensive exercise as untrue…
The second consignment of Johnson and Johnson vaccines arrived in SA on Saturday. Image: Twitter |
According to a News24 report, the chair of the SAA Pilots’ Association (Saapa), Grant Back, said the flight would cost tax payers and the government about R5m, “a price tag that could have been avoided if the government used another commercial flight scheduled for the same day”.
“At the moment Saapa members, who have been locked out since 18 December last year because no agreement could be reached on ending an…