Johannesburg – The Department of Public Enterprises has hit back at the pilots’ association after the latter accused it of wasting money on a flight to pick up vaccines in Belgium.
The South African Pilots’ Association (Saapa) had said this week the flight would cost about R5 million. It said instead of using an empty SAA flight to Brussels to fetch the vaccines, government should have loaded the vaccines on a commercial flight, which was going to be cheaper.
But the department on Friday hit back at Saapa and said it was dishonest and wanted to hold government hostage.
“This flight was also a test relaunch of the SAA Cargo business. Many…