The carrier will return to the skies after exiting a bankruptcy process in May and securing investors, but will not initially revive its Heathrow-Johannesburg route.
Interim chief executive Thomas Kgokolo said the carrier was now “ostensibly a brand-new airline”.
The relaunch comes after equity firm Takatso Consortium secured a 51% stake in a slimmed down SAA, with the South African government retaining 49%. During the bankruptcy process, about 80% of its workforce was shed.
SAA’s destination map confirms its initial network is confined to six routes from its Johannesburg hub to Cape Town, Accra, Kinshasa, Harare, Lusaka and Maputo.
