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New South African carrier has an official name: Lift

On-line contest registered 25 thousand suggestions

Wakanda Air, DjyRyNie and Lekker Airlines: these are some of the suggestions that South African citizens proposed online for the new national carrier (read also the article published by AVIONEWS). Eventually another name came up, and the company will be called Lift. Gidon Novick, founder of the low-cost airline Kulula, recently announced the first take-offs no later than next December, inviting South...

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Half a billion euros: amount is considerable, to say the least, but it was deemed appropriate for the rescue of carrier South African Airways (read also the article published by AVIONEWS). Local government... more

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No one will know my name: unlike in "Turandot" by Giacomo Puccini, the name of new carrier of South Africa must be revealed quickly and for this reason it was decided to entrust to the city. In the last... more

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