Table Talk
Lift co-founder Gidon Novick on return to aviation industry, airline's future
Gidon Novick, who first took off with Kulula, is flying once more into the cut-throat airline business with SA’s latest offering, Lift, writes Paul Ash
31 January 2021 - 00:00
When Gidon Novick departed from the airline he had founded, he had no intention of ever coming back to aviation.
Who would be so mad? This is a business riven with airlines that crash and burn, of bankruptcies, of eye-wateringly expensive equipment. This is a cut-throat industry where pilots and first officers are poached by carriers with deeper pockets than yours, where passengers can instantly trash your reputation with a couple of unhinged tweets and where a virus — ironically airborne — can strike you out of the sky faster than the sun did for Icarus...
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