Top South African Airline Faces Pilot Strike Over Wage Impasse

More than half of the pilots at South Africa’s largest airline FlySafair are preparing to go on strike after failing to reach and an agreement on wages, labor union Solidarity said.

The majority of the 211 pilots represented by Solidarity rejected the low-cost carrier’s final offer of a 5.7% raise, Deputy General-Secretary Helgard Cronje said by phone. The labor union’s members, who make up about two-third of FlySafair’s total pilots, are demanding 10.5% in the first year and inflation-linked increases in the subsequent two years, he said.