The air transport and tourism industries represent around R140bn in gross value added to South Africa’s economy and account for 3.2% of the country's GDP. It also supports about 472,000 jobs and their extended families, whose livelihoods, directly and indirectly, would be impacted across the entire economy.
"While AASA and its members will always defend the Constitutionally-enshrined right to strike, any secondary, or sympathy, action will cause severe harm to our economy and, by implication, to all South Africans," concludes Zweigenthal
