PHOTOS: Belgrade Airport joins Smiling Day event

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SAA sold

South Africa agreed to sell a majority stake in the country’s grounded national carrier to a local jet-leasing company and private-equity firm, ridding the government of an entity that has long been a drain on state finances. A consortium comprised of Johannesburg-based Global Airways, which owns recently launched domestic airline Lift, and private-equity firm Harith General Partners will take a 51% shareholding in South African Airways (SAA), Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said. The government will retain a minority stake. The grouping named Takatso will invest as much as 3.5 billion rand ($258 million) over the next three years, Lift co-founder, Gidon Novick, and Harith Chief Executive Officer, Tshepo Mahloele, said in an interview. “Government will have no further financial obligations to the company, outside of the existing liabilities that they will settle”, Novick said. He added, “Route networks we are still working on, and it will be a phased roll-out based on demand re-emerging post Covid”. The sale of SAA comes about six weeks after the airline emerged from lengthy bankruptcy proceedings, having reduced its workforce by almost 80% and cut liabilities to about 2.6 billion rand. The next challenge is to resume international flights, though South Africa remains cut off from much of the world due to pandemic travel restrictions. A longer-term goal is to list the carrier on a stock exchange, Gordhan said. In the meantime, the government will retain special voting rights to ensure the airline remains in the country, among other national priorities. The deal represents a triumph of sorts for Gordhan, who has argued for the revival of SAA with the help of private investors while others were calling for it to be liquidated. While SAA is now “solvent and liquid,” business-rescue practitioners said when handing over the aircraft, subsidiaries including low cost arm Mango and maintenance firm SAA Technical remain under financial strain and are in the process of being recapitalized. The Department of Public Enterprises and the new consortium will together assess the future of the divisions as part of the due diliegence process, Gordhan said.
Source: Bloomberg

PHOTOS: Belgrade Airport joins Smiling Day event

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Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has joined 44 others to take part in "Smiling Day". The Smiling Day, a key event in VINCI Airports' service policy, is organised each year at all airports within the VINCI Airports network. "The event symbolises the importance of high quality service and greeting inherent to our airports", the operator said. During the day, all employees and partners, whatever their job, were encouraged to get out and meet passengers to give them a personalised, warm greeting. Passengers also had the opportunity to participate in a contest and win flights to VINCI Airports’ destinations by posting their photos #SmilingDay19 on Instagram and Facebook.

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Anonymous15:49
Cute :)
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Anonymous17:06
Belgrade airport will be well connected this year. Air Serbia published new map of 24 charter destinations on aviolet.rs site. Combined with 48 regular destinations published earlier it gives a total of amazing 71 Air Serbia destinations (ATH overlaps for regular and charter) from BEG this summer!
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Anonymous19:48
Nice to know that BEG airport staff are nice at least one day in the year. :D
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Rodney Marinkovic00:45
Pozeljno je i dobro doslo uvodjenje dana " smile" na aerodromu Beograd. Na aerodromima je potrebno 365 dana godisnje osmeh ljudi u sluzbi putnika i javnog odnosa. Putujuci u zadnjih 50 godina na preko 170 aerodroma sirom sveta, nemogu reci da je na svima bilo osmeha prema putnicima. Ranije ni na Beogradskom aerodromu nije preovldavao osmeh. Treba jos dosta da se unapredi odnos komunikacije. Svakako neuporedivo bolje u odnosu na prosla vremena. Aerodrom ne moze imati ugled i zelju da se bude na njemu bez ljudskog odnosa i osmeha osoblja aerodroma. Bravo VINCI Airports. Poceli ste od krucialnog i na Aerodromu Beograd. Velika nada je da ce te uspeti preporoditi tu vazdusnu luku u respektabilni osavremen hab. Kakav ste i objavili.
Uz upotrebu natpisa na engleskom jeziku moraju biti natpisi i na cirilici srpskim jezikom. Ko razume srpski jezik, razume i cirilicu.
Ko nezna ili nece da zna, tu je obavestenje na engleskom. Naravno na latinici. Cirilica i latinica su pisma naroda ako se prakticno upotrebljavaju i na aerodromima. Na aerodromu Nikola Tesla, do sada to nije slucaj.
Надам се да ће корпорација ВИНЦИ Ерпортс ову неправилност и чињенично стање изменити. Држава Србија то није учинила за време управљања овим аеродромом.
Учините то ви из ВИНЦИ Ерпортс. Због великог осмеха који тако добро промовишете у вашој стратегији пословања.
Надам се да ће вам у ВИНЦИ Ерпотс бити на француски преведено ово моје писање. Укључујући и ћирилицу.
Са жељом за осмехе међу људима на аеродромима и уопште,
ВИНЦИ Ерпортс најбоље жеље уз осмех. Хвала.✈
Када будем у јуну слетео на Аеродром Николу Теслу, и будућим узлетањима и слетањима. Било их је до сада 81 само из Аустралије у задњих 50 година.
Са Сиднејског аеродрома, са осмехом Отаџбини и Београдској ваздушнпј луци, мир напредак и успех на свим пољима добра!. ✈☺💒✨🔅✈🌏✈🌍✈🌎✈
Радован /Rodney/ Маринковић.
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