South African Airways (ZS-SXF) returns to Perth Airport on April 29, 2024.

[@flyo2544]

How wonderful to welcome SAA back to Perth! I wasn't sure the airline would ever come back.

[@sivideoaviation]

Yeah me too.

[@barriedouglas7272]

Just great to see the A340s back in Perth, brilliant.

[@sivideoaviation]

Yes.

[@mickeysmiths]

It is. Will have to get to the airport especially to see one come in, or North Beach to see one go overhead ✈

[@mickeysmiths]

​@@sivideoaviation What time of day is it due in (obviously daylight sometime)?

[@mickeysmiths]

​@@sivideoaviation I've just subscribed 👍 Please consider repaying the favour.. lol. Are you at the airport often?

[@mickeysmiths]

​@@sivideoaviation Just read the description. This is the sole A340 in the SAA fleet.. very interesting. A very good model, & with no hull losses 👍

[@isaacblumenfeld9779]

Amazing video! So glad to see SAA back at Perth! Been waiting a while for the relaunch of this route!! Great capture.

[@sivideoaviation]

Yes.

[@jacquesleroux5069]

Enjoy it while it lasts

[@mikes8928]

Very impressive coordination for you to get that car beeping excitedly at @3:43

[@sivideoaviation]

😆

[@richardshiggins704]

Beautiful touch down .

[@YPPHAviation]

Nice work, great to see scheduled A340 flights into Perth.

[@sivideoaviation]

Yes.

[@PLANEMANIA747]

Nice capturing of A340 🤩

[@epicmotionpics]

Simon glad you caught it, sorry for the confusion with dates. Awesome shot !

[@sivideoaviation]

This arrival had so many alleged times and dates and even phantom listings on FR and FA. 😵

[@epicmotionpics]

@@sivideoaviation I know, I thought that the Perth Airport Article would be the most reliable, turns out no.

[@sivideoaviation]

😆

[@owowiesav]

I saw this over my school and didn’t realise they were back so I was so confused 😂

[@786-Shan]

Welcome back to Australia

[@bhekisizwemthethwa341]

Piloted by two Black Pilots...Captain was Vusi Khumalo...he is the one that landed this beast!

[@sivideoaviation]

Thanks for the information.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Hi! Would you be interested in sharing some of these clips for use in our video about the inaugural? Can offer FR24 goodies and credit/tags in return.

[@sivideoaviation]

OK, my email is in my details tab.

[@mickeysmiths]

Nice 👍 Very nice and good

[@boston2974]

How can an airline like SAA survive with just 3 longhaul aircraft 2xA330 and 1xA340?

[@sivideoaviation]

www.flightglobal.com/airlines/saa-rebuilds-intercontinental-network-with-perth-resumption/158012.article aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/saa-rebounds-adding-eight-aircraft-nine-new-destinations

[@LostXotic6217]

I saw the same plane on Flightradar24

[@simmy8701]

This looks like the free state somewhere

[@JacksAviation1]

Imagine if an airline with 747s come

[@richardshiggins704]

Korean perhaps .

[@JacksAviation1]

@@richardshiggins704 yeah, or Lufthansa but idk. A silk way west 747 randomly came to perth once

[@springbok86]

How long did the Qantas a330 fly this route for? A year or so?

[@sivideoaviation]

A few months. Alan Joyce manufactured a dispute over biosecurity with Perth Airport and pulled the route. 👶

[@KwAviation]

perth atc are just staright up amazing people welcome back to perth 🤩

[@sivideoaviation]

They are 😉

[@Owen_Aviation24]

I saw that near 1 40 pm or something

[@sivideoaviation]

1240*

[@Dylan21]

it's good to see an A340 in Australia. Even if it's an ugly -300 version.

[@sivideoaviation]

Those hard working hair dryers are growing on me. 😆 Pity they got rid of the 600s, they probably really suck the juice tho.

[@5911aviation]

will it keep coming because I need to get it.

[@sivideoaviation]

Yes, 3 days a week.

[@jurgenkuhne9549]

Go Springbok❤

[@kevindc4961]

It should be flying into Melbourne instead of Perth. Melb will be the biggest city in Aust. Bigger market on the East Coast of Aust. will guarantee the success of SAA

[@sivideoaviation]

Yeah well it ain't. South African Airways has been flying to Perth for 67 years. We have superior weather 🤪

[@dcau1]

Perth makes more sense given how many South Africans live there. You can always connect in Perth to the east coast.

[@kevindc4961]

@@dcau1 I've flown that sector Mel/Per/Cpt at least a 100 times, it's a nightmare. I now choose Qatar via Doha. SAA needs 90% full flights, Perth population to small and SAA will collapse again. East coast people will use SQ or Qatar etc So enjoy the ride Perth people before SAA collapses again and you will be forced to fly via Singapore.

[@sivideoaviation]

We're doomed 💀🤦‍♂️🥴

[@AidanAviation]

I was tracking it when it was landing, i couldnt go to the airport because i was at school

[@rod_at_adelaide5766]

Nice to watch but I wouldn't fly with them, I value safety too much.

[@Helgardt6189]

Whats’s wrong with SAA’s safety ? They have a very good tracking record.

[@rod_at_adelaide5766]

@@Helgardt6189 They had some very dodgy things happening during the Apartheid era when there were sanctions on South Africa. Including carrying weapons and munitions on passenger flights. I worked as a pilot for SAA at this time. There were a lot of unexplained “missing“ documents regarding the cargo carried (manifests and bills of lading), as well as missing recordings between the flight and the airline’s long distance communications platform, ZUR. Duty personnel both in Johannesburg and Taipei were either promoted to posts well beyond their skills levels or, on leaving SAA, awarded lucrative government contracts. Something very fishy went on that evening, not a doubt. I lost good friends on that flight, I knew and had flown with all the flight deck crew, and many of the cabin crew. They went broke and have now reappeared even though the SA Government is still the same regime and still economically challenged. I wouldn't like to fly a national airline of a country that is challenged as they are. Flying planes that are really getting towards their use by date because they can't afford newer ones. It's just my opinion and I do have the right to have an opinion as you do. Why would you want to fly with them when there are so many other premium airlines available. Feel free to book a flight with them for yourself and your family, but the Indian Ocean is a very wide open space with not too many alternative runways out there Reply

[@lastmanstanding9389]

What a dumb thing to say considering all the scary incidents Qantas has had.

[@remuel1]

Dumb 😂, After that 1987 SAA 747 onboard fire, SAA never involved in fatal crash since then,