SA air traffic company focuses on safety and the environment

South Africa’s air traffic management agency, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), is working hard to improve air safety in the country. “During the 2015/2016 [financial year] our safety performance was not as we would have liked it to be, with a record low of 34 Risk Safety Index [RSI],” stated ATNS CEO Thabani Mthiyane in an address to the 27th meeting of the State-owned company’s Operations Committee. “We then embarked on various safety initiatives which resulted in a significant improvement of our RSI which was sitting at 47 as at 31 March 2017.” He highlighted that it “is an undisputable [sic] fact that flying remains the safest form of travel by a far wider margin as compared to other modes of transport.”