A ZULULAND family reported from King Shaka International Airport in Durban this morning that their daughter’s FlySafair flight was cancelled after airline cleaning staff found a fetus in a toilet cistern on board the aircraft.
Their daughter was traveling alone from Durban to Johannesburg’s OR Thambo Airport on the 6.10am flight.
We saw her off safely and she boarded the plane, after which we left her gate to check in to our flight, said Wayne Viviers of Mtunzini.
While we were checking in to our international flight we saw her walking back towards the FlySafair offices.
She explained that shortly before take-off the pilot came over the intercom to announce that a foetus had been found in the toilet cistern, and that the plane was now a crime scene,.
All the passengers deplaned and were rerouted onto other flights.
She said that the passengers were all very shocked at the news
FlySafair is a low-cost airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Safair.
The airline was established in August 2013 and was granted approval by the South African Air Service Licensing Council to launch operations with ten daily services between Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport and Cape Town International Airport.
The airline had plans to begin operations in October 2013.
However, on 8 October 2013, the High Court of South Africa granted an interim court order preventing the airline from starting operations, following an application by rival carriers, on the basis that it did not meet the legal requirement of 75% local ownership.
Substantial restructuring of ownership took place and FlySafair's inaugural flight eventually took place on 16 October 2014
On 29 March 2017, the airline announced its new partnership with the South African Rugby Union (SARU) making it the official domestic carrier for the Springboks and SA Rugby.
FlySafair serves the following domestic destinations:
Cape Town – Cape Town International Airport
Durban – King Shaka International Airport
East London – East London Airport
George – George Airport
Johannesburg – OR Tambo International Airport
Johannesburg – Lanseria International Airport
Port Elizabeth – Port Elizabeth Airport
FlySafair Interlines with the following airlines:
Air France
KLM
Condor Flugdienst
Thomas Cook Airlines
FlySafair offers food and drinks as a buy-on-board programme. FlySafair also offers a monthly magazine on board named In Flight. The airline was also the first airline in South Africa to offer card payments aboard their flights.
In April 2017 FlySafair was awarded for being the number one most punctual airline globally, with a 96% on-time performance (OTP) by OAG, an air travel intelligence company.
FlySafair qualified as they were able to provide flight status information for a minimum of 80%, which are calculated over a 12-month period and include airlines and airports with a minimum of 600 operations a month.
On 16 October 2017, it was announced that the airline had won the award for The World's Most On Time Airline by OAG for the second year.
On 16 November 2018, The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) named FlySafair the Aircraft Operator of the Year in its South African Civil Aviation Excellence Awards. At the same ceremony, FlySafair also took second place in the Aviation Customer Services category, and was a finalist in the Aviation Safety category.
As of March 2019, the FlySafair fleet consists of the following all Boeing aircraft:
8 Boeing 737–400
6 Boeing 737–800
Total 14
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