Podcast Episodes

A Pilot Explains: Who Decides If Your Dubai Or Doha Flight Gets Airborne

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Every flight through the Gulf this month is being approved on the day, one flight at a time. If your December ticket to Europe or Asia c…

11 hours ago

#290 Fuel Is Half Your Ticket Price: Why Flights Are So Expensive Right Now

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Brent crude went back through 100 dollars a barrel on 9 September after the United States and Iran started striking each other again, an…

3 days, 8 hours ago

A Pilot Explains: 1 In 8 Airline Pilots Are Depressed, Why We Hide It And What It Costs At Home

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One in eight airline pilots is depressed. More than half of us have avoided a doctor to protect our licence. This is why pilots stay sile…

3 days, 10 hours ago

#288 ACSA's R1.2 Billion Year, The Approach We Should Have Gone Around From, And Emirates To Berlin At Last

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Airports Company South Africa has posted a R1.2 billion profit on R8.81 billion of revenue, and Johannesburg airport still cannot keep i…

6 days, 4 hours ago

A Pilot Explains: Why Pilots Refuse To Land, And The Night I Got It Wrong

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The engines roar, the nose lifts, and the runway falls away beneath you. The safest thing a pilot can do is the one thing passengers hate…

1 week, 2 days ago

A Pilot Explains: The Scam That Stole R1.2 Million In 20 Minutes

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A retired teacher east of Johannesburg took a WhatsApp call from someone posing as South African Airways. Twenty minutes later, R1.2 mill…

1 week, 2 days ago

#285 No Flypast At FNB: Airlink Pulls Out, SAA 'For Sale' Again and FlySafair's Big Win

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The flypast is off. Airlink has withdrawn its FNB Stadium flyby for Saturday's third test, citing the weather, while the South African C…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

I Watched The Airlink Flypast Like Everyone Else. Here's What I Saw.

Two Airlink E-Jets, one black and one green, flew over Cape Town Stadium seconds before the Springboks and the All Blacks kicked off. Within an hour …

3 weeks, 2 days ago

#283 The Charter Comeback: Beech 1900s, Bush Strips and a Better Life

Charter flying in South Africa is booming, and Ryan is living it: Beech 1900 trips to Zimbabwe, Botswana, the Lowveld and the Northern Cape in the sp…

1 month ago

#282 Etihad Wants South African Pilots. Should You Go?

Etihad Airways is growing quickly, with more aircraft joining the fleet and new destinations on the map, and South African pilots are on its radar. B…

1 month, 2 weeks ago