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FlySafair check-in counter at OR Tambo International Airport.
FlySafair says its operations will be restored to full capacity over the next two weeks.
The airline has confirmed that the pilots’ strike has ended following an agreement between it and Solidarity.
The union represents two-thirds of FlySafair’s pilots.
The pilots will receive a 6% salary increase in the first year and 6.5% in the following year.
The airline says the strike has resulted in a loss of revenue.
FlySafair Chief Marketing Officer Kirby Gordon says, “It has cost FlySafair lost revenue. We’ve had to reduce our schedule by about 30% because obviously the reputational damage that’s involved in disappointing customers along the way.”
Gordon says, “ It caused these pilots’ two weeks of their salary, it’s caused the South African public a great ideal in terms of lack of choice and escalated airfares due to a supply that came out of the equation, so there are no winners ultimately in industrial action.”
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