In the year of 1934, February Union airways were taken over by South African government completely as they took the assets and liabilities of this air line too. South African government named Union airways as South African Airways and it was given under the complete control of South African Harbor and railway administration.
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In May 24, 1940 south African airlines became the official military wing and all of its commercial commitments were suspended. In the December of 1940, south African airways again started there two commercial flights that catered to the destinations of Union of South Africa and its adjacent territories. These services were resumed with the help of Lokhed Lodestar aircraft which had the capacity of 12 seats for passengers and four for its crew members. On October 29, 2007south African airlines suspended their flights from Johannesburg to Paris.
On November 2007 South African airlines last 747-400 made the final flights. The airline had 6 of these air crafts and all of them are grounded now, this is due to the practice of lowering operational costs of the airline. On 13 November, 2007 South African airways along with Scandinavian airlines announced a agreement for code sharing on European routes of Munich, London and Frankfurt to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Gothenburg.
On 16 November 2007, South African airlines along with Air Tanzania changed their program of code share and decided to include only Johannesburg – Dar es Salaam also called trunk route and not the Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. On the 29th November 2007 that is in the same year south African airways became the official carrier of South African rugby team which was called springboks as part of a landmark sponsorship agreement which was done between the airline and SA Rugby. South African airlines are still operating on their routes successfully and serving large number of people with satisfied services on daily basis.
