South African Airways said Thursday a “no-work-no-pay” principle will apply to employees who are expected to participate in a strike and said it workers who reported for duty would be allowed to work. “Those who participate in the strike action will not be permitted back to work until the strike is over,” SAA acting GM for Human Resources, Martin Kemp, said. Trade unions the South African Cabin Crew Association and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said Wednesday their members would embark on industrial action from Friday morning. Kemp said SAA would continue to spare no effort to work with the unions to find solutions that accommodate the employee demands, safeguard the business and return operations to normal. <br/>
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Lufthansa said Thursday that passengers of Lufthansa and SWISS can now offset their carbon-dioxide footprint by buying sustainable aviation fuel when they book flights. The airline group said that under the program, known as Compensaid, customers can pay a surcharge based on the price difference between the green fuel and kerosene. On a 462 kilometre flight from Hamburg to Frankfurt on a A321, for example, a passenger would need E42 (US$46.20) of sustainable fuel instead of E14 of fossil fuels. The passenger could then pay E28 to offset their flight with green fuel and Lufthansa would pay the remaining E14. Lufthansa will then feed the fuel, which is roughly 4 times more expensive than jet fuel, to planes at its Frankfurt hub within 6 months. Compensaid’s website shows how much money has been raised. <br/>
Austrian Airlines plans to adjust its US network from summer 2020, by adding 4X-weekly Vienna-Boston Logan International (Massachusetts) Boeing 767-300ER services from the end of March. The carrier will increase frequencies to 6X-weekly from mid-April. Austrian Airlines CE Alexis von Hoensbroech said previously that the intercontinental business is well developed, with passenger volume up by 7% during the first 9 months of the year, “but it is not very profitable. Miami will be dropped from the network and will be replaced with an additional intercontinental destination,” von Hoensbroech said, referring to Boston. Cutting Miami services will enable the airline to upgrade daily Vienna-Chicago O’Hare services to Boeing 777-200ER from the end of March. Until now, a Boeing 767 was used on 2 of the 7X-weekly flights. <br/>