JetBlue ends back-to-front aircraft boarding process
JetBlue is resuming its group boarding process, as it prepares for passenger numbers to bounce back.
JetBlue is ending its back-to-front boarding policy less than a year after implementing it, according to Insider. The airline will resume its group boarding process, as it prepares for passenger numbers to bounce back.
“We continue to work within public health guidelines and take clinical guidance from own medical experts to ensure we are doing everything we can to keep our customers and crew members safe in this next phase of our ‘new normal’,” a representative for the airline told Insider.
Prasa’s new boss too old to take up the role The rail agency’s policy dictates that employees should retire at 63. Zolani Matthews is 64. Prasa CEO Zolani Kgosie Matthews. Picture: Twitter/@MbalulaFikile
This is according to the rail agency’s own policy which states employees should retire at 63.
Prasa’s lack of permanent leadership was identified by the Auditor General as a key cause of the instability and irregularity at the rail agency.
Zolani Matthews was announced as the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (Prasa) first Group CEO in six years by Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula last Saturday. But Matthews is 64, and so cannot take up the position, because he is too old according to the rail agency’s policies.
Mbalula rubbishes claims that new Prasa CEO is too old for the position 05 March 2021 - 19:12 Image: ESA ALEXANDER
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula on Friday refuted claims that the new CEO of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), Zolani Matthews, was “too old” for the position.
He was responding to a story published on GroundUp which said Matthews would not be able to take up the post as he was over the retirement policy age of the rail agency. According to the article, Prasa’s retirement age policy is 63 and Matthews is 64.
In a statement, Mbalula said this was an “unfounded fabrication that has been circulating on social media”. He said the department had recruited a skilled public servant to bring stability to Prasa.