Chris Hunsinger

Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance (DA) has been inundated with calls from flight management of different airline companies threatening to cancel more flights due to the shambolic regulations regarding flight crews following initial cancellations by Emirates on Friday. Dubai-based Emirates cancelled its flight to Durban for Sunday and also announced that it was cancelling its other just-resumed flights to and from Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. The DA has requested that the … [Read more...] about Poor Coordination to be blamed for canned flights

Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance (DA) has received volumes of complaints relating to the registration of vehicles that couldn’t be finalised before the deadline. The validity of two categories of licencing, pertaining to person and trade, have been extended but not that of vehicles. This is causing huge disruption in most provinces with many more people now needing to move around, yet risk being faced with huge fines because they wanted but couldn’t renew vehicle registrations. Many … [Read more...] about Vehicle licence validity must be extended

Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls for the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) management to be immediately suspended and investigated for severe negligence. This comes after we have learned that the precision runway approach aid equipment that assists with the landing of aeroplanes has been turned off at various South African airports since 10 August 2020. This severely dangerous state of affairs is due to the failure of the SACAA to take action when the equipment … [Read more...] about ILS? What ILS?