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Johannesburg - A new airline has taxied onto the South
African runway with the promise of opening up the skies to eager commuters.
"We are taking the black community... which has been
suffering for many years... to the promised land," Santaco secretary
general Philip Taaibosch said at the proof of concept launch in Lanseria on
Friday.
Santaco Airlines is the brainchild of the SA National Taxi
Council, developed to offer an all-in-one transport system between taxi ranks
in different provinces.
The first phase of the service would operate between
Lanseria airport, north of Johannesburg, Bhisho in the Eastern Cape, and Cape
Town.
"This is a historic day for the taxi industry... We are
not rewriting history, we are part of the history of South Africa," said
Taaibosch.
The airline is expected to launch commercially at the end of the year.
