Cabo Verde Airlines (TACV), based in Cape Verde, announced in early September that it would temporarily suspend all flight services due to the lack of serviceable aircraft. The airline stated that its only operational aircraft, a Boeing 757, would be out of service till the 11th of September. The airline then announced it had successfully secured capacity from Portuguese ACMI and Charter operator, euroAtlantic Airways, which allowed for the resumption of services from Lisbon to Praia.

German Carrier, Air Berlin, announced further flight cancellations in mid September, stating that over 200 of its pilots had reported sick. The flight cancellations affect both its domestic and international route networks. The union representing the airline’s pilots, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), claims that the mass pilot outage is not a collective or concerted effort and instead recommended that staff fulfil their contractual and occupational obligations. The airline had previously sustained a number of years of severe losses, which had resulted in cost cutting measures.

State carrier, South African Airways (SAA), announced in late September that in response to the poor financial performance of the carrier, the capacity of its mainline operations will be decreased over the coming months. As a result, the airline will reportedly return at least five of its wide body aircraft to their lessors, whilst an additional four narrow body aircraft will be offloaded to other carriers. This fleet downsize will result in the cessation of over 170 weekly flights with a number of other routes being transferred to low cost feeder airline, South Africa Airlink.