"I can see some of you rolling your eyes because of how our taxi drivers drive,” said Santaco business development officer Nkululeko Buthelezi to potential investors and reporters in Johannesburg, “I can assure you we won't allow our taxi drivers to drive [the planes]."
Arguably, this is not the best way to announce the coming of your new, low-cost, inter-city airline.
But there it is: The South African Taxi Service is launching it’s own airline! The first few words that leap to mind are ‘horrifying’, ‘fiery death’ and ‘sixteen-foot spinners’.
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The holding company of said deathtubes is called The Santaco Express. Now, if you look carefully, you’ll notice how the letters in the name are an anagram for ‘Satan Sexes Copr’, which is either a summation of the taxi industry’s sentiment towards law enforcement in general, or the promise of some wildly original, in-flight entertainment.
It should cost between R500 to R600 per ticket, which is a little steeper than I’d usually be willing to pay to be vaporized thirty metres from the edge of a runway, somewhere on the outskirts of Bhisho, but perhaps they take funeral and cremation expenses into account, which would be just super nice of them.
Jokes aside, it’s potentially exciting news. Just don’t expect me to fly on the damn things. Sea Point Main Road is bad enough on the ground…
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