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Velvet Sky (airline)
South African airline
This article is about the South African airline.
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Velvet Sky was a low cost airline based at the King Shaka International Airport near Durban, South Africa. The airline launched in March 2011.[3] It ceased operations in February 2012 and was liquidated in May 2012.
History
Velvet Sky Aviation was established in 2009 as a subsidiary of Macdonald Holdings. Flight operations began on 22 March 2011.
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It was the only airline based in Durban and claimed to be the first Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment compliant airline in South Africa.[4]
On 25 March 2011 technical problems with the airline's only aircraft caused a seven-hour delay at Johannesburg.
A replacement aircraft had to be chartered and a new aircrew had to be brought in as the Boeing 737, built in 1988,[5] was grounded for repairs. The original crew could not continue the flight as th