SAA scraps idea that it gave Mango cheap plane leases

Four days after South African Airways (SAA) said it sub-leased aircraft to its low-cost subsidiary Mango Airlines at a discounted cost, inadvertently raising concerns of collusion, the embattled airline did an about-turn and denied that it had done so. The change in tune came hours after outgoing Mango CEO Nico Bezuidenhout told Bloomberg that SAA’s original statement was “outright, straightforward, not true”.