South African Airways (SAA) is the leading carrier in Africa, serving 57 destinations, in partnership with SA Express, SA Airlink, and low-cost carrier, Mango, within South Africa, across the African continent, and to nine intercontinental routes from its Johannesburg hub.
The airlineᅢᄁ¬ツᆲ¬トᄁs core business is the provision of passenger airline and cargo transport services, together with related services provided through SAA and its wholly-owned subsidiaries: SAA Technical, Mango, its low-cost carrier, and Air Chefs, the catering entity of SAA.
SAA is the winner of the Best Airline Staff Service award in the Africa category showing that our customer-facing employees are our true brand ambassadors who make a difference to millions of travelling customers. This is evidenced by the airline maintaining a 4-Star Skytrax Ranking, in both Business and Economy Class, for 16 consecutive years; the Skytrax Best Airline in Africa Award for 14 years running; being chosen by readers of the Business Traveller magazine as Best African Airline for 11 consecutive years; the winner in the African Long-Haul Airline category at the Business Traveller Africa Conference and Awards; and taking first place in the Domestic Airline category at the Sunday Times Top Brand Awards. SAAᅢᄁ¬ツᆲ¬トᄁs in-flight magazine Sawubona has won the award for Africaᅢᄁ¬ツᆲ¬トᄁs Leading In-flight Magazine for three years in a row at the World Travel Awardsᅢᄁ¬ダᅡᄁ.
SAA is a member of the largest international airline network, Star Alliance, offering more than 18, 800 daily flights to 1, 317 airports in 193 countries.