The incident is mainly related to refueling infrastructure, power supply, and reliability of tambo International Airport and Cape Town International Airport. Continuous uncertainty remains in the management of fuel reserves and the security of jet fuel supply. Unsteadiness directly affects the ability of the airline to meet the perfection of the schedule. The airline still feels the negative effects of a very slow pace of restoring the 326 equipment flight procedure that ATN withdraws in July 2024. In addition to cyber violations in SA weather service last weekend, we confused the aviation meteorological observation and the provision of forecasts. Missions are important for flights.
“Airlines and passengers pay the statutory user fees to various states to provide reliable and safe, efficient and affordable services, but ACSA, ATNS, and SAWS, AASA, If you can't provide a full range of the paid services, you're concerned that Aaron Munetsi, a CEO of Aaron, will be applied to each economic regulatory authority. I mentioned it.
fuel
The possibility of fuel has been an important item since the Durban Refinery was anxious and damaged in 2021, which caused the turmoil and wasted the railway line between the dervan and the leaf. Cape Town's space -type refinery was closed (it was resumed in July last year and the production is still increasing).
“These are greatly dependent on jet fuel that imported the industry, and airlines that are operating inside and outside South Africa are additional logistics and duty applied to fuel before reaching the aircraft fuel tank. He has been forced to pay other expenses.
Recent fire in Natrev Near JohannesburgThis is a central collection point of jet fuel before being pumped into ACSA storage facilities or tumbo via a dedicated pipeline, causing further confusion and concerns.
“Early this month, Natref guarantees that the repair will be completed by February 21, but since the progress report has not been provided, it is not known whether it will meet the voluntary deadline. In the meantime, AASA is carefully comforted by the ACSA guarantee that sufficient fuel stock is protected until February 2, but ACSA owns storage and refueling infrastructure and equipment. Munetti is so painful that he has not procured or procured its own fuel.
Fuel procurement is the responsibility of a fuel company that concludes a commercial supply contract with the airline.
However, since the shock of the local aviation industry triggered by COVID-19 rock-down in March 2020, fuel suppliers have adopted a very conservative approach to jet fuel inventory management, and from 11 or the average of tumbo. The reserves are increased to half or more. It is about 4 days from the day enough to maintain the airline's business.
“AASA is not disclosed because he does not know these individual supply agreements, but unless it has been withdrawn before that, until 1:00 pm on February 25, or from tumbo. Note that neither the fuel supplier nor the ACSA will guarantee the required amount, which imposes the restrictions on fuel rising, including the ban. It suggests that you should continue to worry about the potential confusion of operation.
Invalid and outdated equipment
In addition, the main airports still have too many instances of runway and guide lighting that were not skilled. Terminal buildings include devices such as passenger passages for travelers in the terminal building that cannot be used even after turning off during the joint system. Similarly, if it is not limited at the airport, be aware of continuous delays and confusion of both departure and arrival passenger processing. These facilities are needed in most countries, seamlessly, digital processed passengers, seamlessly, and are recommended by AirPorts Council International and the United Nations Country Aviation Organization. , ICAO sets world passports and verification criteria). The modernization of the airport management IT system was very slow, and at the beginning of last year, we stopped in light of concerns about the bid award.
“While ACSA praised the efforts to comply with the Financial Management Law, AASA appealed to promote the process with the ACSA, government bonds, and other players in the procurement chain, and to respond to the urgent response to the necessary work. Munetti said.
Interpreted flight procedure, insufficient ATC
Similarly, a regular meeting with the Minister of Transport on various aviation -related matters continues to express members dissatisfaction with delays in the processing of 326 equipment flight procedures withdrawn last July.
“ATNS could not guarantee that the procedure would recover due to the summer peak trip season of the priority key airport such as George. As we saw in George this week, the flight procedure of related devices is not available. The use of a runway 11 equipment landing system (ILS) is a runway used when the wind comes from the east, and the operating cost of an airline additional airline. He was delayed, and he had many canceled flights, “he explained.
In addition to the withdrawal procedure of the withdrawal instrument, in addition to the routes and approaches of many area navigation (RNAV), take off from major airports, some upstream and lower airway between South Africa's major air control zones. Numerous standard departure routing for the route remains suspended.
It is the shortage of eligible and experienced air traffic controllers and airspace designers around the world, and are actively hunting South Africa's talent from ATNS. As a result, ATNS imposes “flow control” in the control area of Johannesburg. In other words, the controller is not overwhelmed by increasing the gap between departure and arrival flights, limiting the number of aircraft flowing in the airspace at any time.
“Instead of improving safety, the situation will increase safety risks. However, travelers are the operating priority of the airline of the members of the members, the detour of the flight, the delay, the delay. You need to be comfortable with all possible measures to eliminate any risks.
SA weather service, cyber security
The double violation of the SA Meteorological Service IT system last weekend means that it was not possible to provide aviation meteorological observation or forecasts on Monday (it is still offline, but it is currently limited to X/Twitter feed. I have posted a prediction). It is illegal to dispatch a flight without a weather forecast, so you can not do the industry.
“On this day and age, it is essential that our important service provider has a robust cyber security barrier at a predetermined position. This is a frequent test and then connected. Fortunately. Munetti explained, in particular, our member airlines have discovered an alternative workaround so that the operation is not interrupted. “
All three of these three state -of -the -art air service providers have applied to each economic regulatory authorities to raise tariffs.
“The AASA's position is that the members and travelers pay the best dollars to a completely unreliable service, and in some cases, ATNS cannot maintain the approval of the equipment flight procedure. However, the regulatory authorities needed to claim a complete audit of how they spent their applications before entering the application. ” He said.