{"id":24783,"date":"2016-05-23T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=24783"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:37:34","slug":"saa-impressed-with-air-transport-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/saa-impressed-with-air-transport-business\/","title":{"rendered":"SAA impressed with air transport business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African flag carrier, South African Airways (SAA) has rated the first half of this year as conducive to air transport business despite a drop in customers\u2019 disposable income.<\/p>\n<p>SAA Sales Executive Wezi Mungoni made the observation on Thursday at the first draw of its 58- 52 promotion currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>Mungoni said despite challenges facing the economy and a drop in the buying power, the airline business has remained competitive in the country within the first five months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>She said customers have continued to fly to various destinations with SAA for instance, which gives hope for better business in the remaining half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness has been very well in the months and we hope that Malawians will continue to fly with us,\u201d said Mungoni.<\/p>\n<p>At the first draw, three SAA customers won return tickets for two each to Johannesburg, Cape Town and any other destination of their choice respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Several other customers also won various SAA branded material including golf shirts.<\/p>\n<p>Mungoni said the promotion is meant to celebrate 58 years of the airliner\u2019s operation in the country and Malawi\u2019s 52 years of independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt compelled to give back to our customers and celebrate this legacy with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion which started on April 1 runs through June 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African flag carrier, South African Airways (SAA) has rated the first half of this year as conducive to air transport business despite a drop in customers\u2019 disposable income. SAA Sales Executive Wezi Mungoni made the observation on Thursday at the first draw of its 58- 52 promotion currently underway. Mungoni said despite challenges facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24787,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions\/24787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}