Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)

Best airline in Africa

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runs smoothly. That includes glitchfree usage on our website, offering easy solutions like online check-in and mobile boarding passes, smooth boarding processes. All these little things add up to make for a better travel experience,” Gordon said.

To celebrate their latest accomplish­ment, Fly Safair launched their new livery for airplane crew members, their reason being that the airline wanted to celebrate their accomplish­ment, not just with the public, but also with the crew members who contribute­d to the airline being voted as the Best Airline in Africa and Indian Ocean.

“Our teams love the jobs that they do, and we believe that this spirit is what drives our great performanc­e and customer experience. Achieving this award is something that our teams should be very proud of, and are, so it was important to recognise their hard work by memorialis­ing the achievemen­t”.

Apart from being a competitiv­ely priced airline carrier, Fly Safair is also a popular choice of travel for the country’s sports teams. It is already the official airline carrier of the Springboks.

“We’ve had the great honour of flying loads of our sports stars including soccer teams, Olympic athletes, Paraolympi­c athletes and even a few retired stars,” Gordon noted.

She mentioned that they do fly other national sports teams, but that their focus was always quality over quantity when it came to sponsorshi­ps.

Gordon explained: “From a sponsorshi­p perspectiv­e we do have our hands a bit full at the moment with the Boks’ undertakin­g and we’ve always believed that if we’re going to do something, you need to make sure that we do it right.”

Gordon, however, does not rule out the possibilit­y of partnering with our other national sports teams, and at this rate, Fly Safair may just overtake major domestic airlines.

She said their awards did not mean that they could relax, but rather the opposite: they have to work harder as a successful airline carrier.

“We have a very important philosophy whereby we treat every day as if it were day one. It’s very important to us that we keep improving. Our awards is also a constant reminder that we’ve set a new standard that we now have to beat.”

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