{"id":11054,"date":"2013-10-14T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T06:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2013-10-14T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T06:42:26","slug":"planes-grounded-after-attempted-cable-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11054","title":{"rendered":"Planes grounded after attempted cable theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ortambo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7988\" alt=\"A less than friendly welcome\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ortambo.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fuelling of aircrafts at OR Tambo International Airport resumed after an attempted cable theft caused flights to be delayed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe incident has inconvenienced our passengers and airline partners. \u201cPassengers are advised to contact their airlines for revised times and relevant information.\u201d\u00a0 The SA Airways spokesman Tlali Tlali said his company was notified about the delays and apologised to customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhilst the situation is out of the airline\u2019s control and has affected all flights across the board, SAA nonetheless would like to apologise to all our customers for the inconvenience caused by this incident,\u201d Tlali Tlali said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The backlog created by the interruptions would take a while to bring operations back to normal as per the schedule, despite fuel supplies having resumed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEvery effort is being made to reduce the effect on later flights which are mostly international. The impact of the interruptions was in the form of flights being delayed by up to two hours in some cases.\u201d &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuelling of aircrafts at OR Tambo International Airport resumed after an attempted cable theft caused flights to be delayed \u201cThe incident has inconvenienced our passengers and airline partners. \u201cPassengers are advised to contact their airlines for revised times and relevant information.\u201d\u00a0 The SA Airways spokesman Tlali Tlali said his company was notified about the delays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planes grounded after attempted cable theft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6919,6921,4395,6920],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cable-theft","tag-flight-delayed","tag-or-tambo","tag-sa-airways"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ortambo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}