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    Home»Sections»Motoring and transport»SAA faces prospect of liquidation after state withdraws support

    SAA faces prospect of liquidation after state withdraws support

    Motoring and transport By Agency Staff14 April 2020
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    An SAA Boeing 747 photographed near OR Tambo International Airport (image: Bob Adams – CC BY-SA 2.0)

    South African Airways has been denied any further funding by government as the national carrier looks for ways to recover from the coronavirus crisis and business rescue.

    The airline’s administrators, who were put in charge in December, were told by the state to instead source cash from available resources, according to a letter they sent to affected parties dated 14 April.

    “We are currently assessing the impact of this development on the business rescue process and will communicate any decisions to be made,” they said in the letter.

    South African Airways, which began operations in 1934, has racked up R26-billion in losses over the last six years

    South African Airways, which began operations in 1934, has racked up R26-billion in losses over the last six years and has depended on a series of state bailouts to keep operating. The grounding of all of its passenger flights, aside from charters to repatriate stranded citizens, due to the coronavirus lockdown have further decimated its revenue stream.

    Finance minister Tito Mboweni has long advocated shutting off funding for the airline, and earlier on Tuesday cited the carrier’s closure as a way to save funds as the country deals with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

    “All options are now blocked to any form of real continuation of the airline,” said Peter Attard Montalto, head of capital markets research at Intellidex. “Basically the only option now is liquidation.”

    Debt guaranteed

    The development is a blow to the ambitions of public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan, who has been keen to keep the airline running to both preserve jobs and act as a flagship carrier for the country. However, he told the business rescue practitioners that the virus had strained the government’s finances and he couldn’t accede to their request to extend foreign borrowing limits by R10-billion, according to a second letter.

    SAA’s external debt is guaranteed by the state in the event of the carrier’s collapse.

    “We are of the firm conviction that South Africa needs a viable and sustainable set of airlines,” the department of public enterprises, which falls under Gordhan, said in a statement. “We must urgently determine the operating and business model for a rescued airline, with a sustainable financial model.”  — Reported by Antony Sguazzin, (c) 2020 Bloomberg LP

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