Today in History: The SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service
The airline was revived in 2002 as a business-focused airline operating two aircraft between Lanseria Airport and Cape Town, before being liquidated in 2004.
On Friday, 13 August 1999, The SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinued its service and thousands of disappointed passengers had to find seats on other flights.
Sun Air was a South African airline, originally owned by the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana, and later privatised.
The airline was revived in 2002 as a business-focused airline operating two aircraft between Lanseria Airport and Cape Town, before being liquidated in 2004.
Originally called Bop Air, after Bophuthatswana, the airline re-branded as Sun Air following the end of apartheid in 1994 and the reincorporation of Bantustans into South Africa.
Ownership of the airline transferred from the government of Bophuthatswana to the newly established North West Province which took over much of Bophuthatswana‘s former territory, prior to the airline’s planned privatisation in 1997.
The airline was called Mafikeng Air Service between 1978 and 1979, and Mmabatho Air Service till 1986.
Information sourced from: South African History Online.
