{"id":389926,"date":"2020-12-17T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389926"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T04:23:53","slug":"south-african-airways-pilots-given-48-hour-lockout-notice-administrators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/south-african-airways-pilots-given-48-hour-lockout-notice-administrators-say\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Airways pilots given 48-hour &#8216;lockout&#8217; notice, administrators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administrators at struggling South African Airways (SAA) said on Wednesday they have issued a 48-hour notice to prevent nearly 400 pilots from accessing the company&#8217;s premises until they agree to new employment terms and conditions. <\/p>\n<p>SAA entered a local form of bankruptcy protection in December of 2019 after roughly a decade of financial losses, and its fortunes worsened after it grounded flights because of the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Efforts to rescue the state airline face resistance from trade unions, who are at loggerheads with the government over wages. <\/p>\n<p>The administrators, who argue that pilots had &#8220;very extensive and lavish benefits&#8221; said the lockout will affect 383 pilots who are members of the SAA Pilots&#8217; Association (SAAPA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrators at struggling South African Airways (SAA) said on Wednesday they have issued a 48-hour notice to prevent nearly 400 pilots from accessing the company&#8217;s premises until they agree to new employment terms and conditions. SAA entered a local form of bankruptcy protection in December of 2019 after roughly a decade of financial losses, and its fortunes worsened after it grounded flights because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Efforts to rescue the state airline face resistance from trade unions, who are at loggerheads with the government over wages. The administrators, who argue that pilots had &#8220;very extensive and lavish benefits&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}