{"id":13500,"date":"2025-10-22T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-civil-aviation-authority-calls-for-maintenance-of-safety-record\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:26","slug":"sa-civil-aviation-authority-calls-for-maintenance-of-safety-record","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-civil-aviation-authority-calls-for-maintenance-of-safety-record\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Civil Aviation Authority calls for maintenance of safety record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South African (SA) Civil Aviation Authority says it&#8217;s important for the country to maintain its safety record in the skies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The warning comes amid ongoing disruptions that have impacted several local airlines, including Airlink.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The disruptions have been caused by the Air Traffic and Navigation Services delays to renew essential flight procedures at a number of airports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has expressed serious concern, especially as the latest issues come during a turnaround process at the struggling entity.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 National Aviation Gender Summit takes place when the aviation industry is experiencing air traffic challenges attributed to developments at the Air Traffic and Navigation Services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\nAffected airports include Kruger Mpumalanga Province, International Airport, Pietermaritzburg and Richards Bay, in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Polokwane Gateway Airport, in Limpopo Province and Mthatha Airport in Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13501,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13500","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA to maintain its safety record in the skies","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18595,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13500\/revisions\/18595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}