South Africa’s biggest airline seals major wage deal

South Africa’s largest airline, FlySafair, said it reached an agreement with cabin crew, ending a deadlock over compensation a week before the country hosts world leaders at the Group of 20 summit. 

The carrier sealed a four-year pact with the South African Cabin Crew Association, it said in a statement on Thursday, without disclosing the details of the deal.

While FlySafair started locking out crew more than a week ago as talks stalled, the airline, which controls 60% of the domestic market and transports about 300,000 passengers daily, maintained throughout that its operations weren’t affected.

It reached a pact with pilots over wages and work schedules in August, after 12 days of lockouts and strike action. 

The first ever G-20 leader’s summit on the African continent kicks off in Johannesburg on November 22.