{"id":8930,"date":"2013-08-12T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:53:57","slug":"mango-crew-sacked-over-food-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8930","title":{"rendered":"Mango crew sacked for food fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mango.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8931\" alt=\"mango\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mango.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>South African Airways&#8217; low cost airline Mango has sacked 24 cabin crew members for food fraud, <i>Business Day<\/i> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabin crew members allegedly defrauded the airline&#8217;s in-flight catering services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspicious about the amount of money being made from the sale of food and drinks, Mango placed investigators on flights, said Lihle Lethuli, SA Transport and Allied Workers&#8217; Union representative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the footage purported to show staff pocketing money from the sale of coffee, tea and other beverages. Mango spokesman Hein Kaiser said the carrier&#8217;s internal security services handled the investigation that lasted several months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is almost impossible to give an accurate figure of how much (was stolen)&#8230; it was a very large amount,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lethuli said the union had seen &#8220;no evidence&#8221; produced by Mango to back up its claims of catering fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kaiser said the airline had merely implemented a policy of zero tolerance against any form of dishonesty. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Airways&#8217; low cost airline Mango has sacked 24 cabin crew members for food fraud, Business Day reported on Monday. Cabin crew members allegedly defrauded the airline&#8217;s in-flight catering services. Suspicious about the amount of money being made from the sale of food and drinks, Mango placed investigators on flights, said Lihle Lethuli, SA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mango crew sacked for food fraud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5006,5007,1456],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-food-fraud","tag-mango-airlines","tag-saa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mango.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8934,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions\/8934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}