There to greet the flight was the NMB Executive Mayor, Zanoxolo Wayile, various members of the Mayoral Committee and, representing NMBT<\/a>, Mandlakazi Skefile.<\/p>\n A traditional water cannon spray greeted the new kid on the block as it taxied to it\u2019s resting place.<\/p>\n Captain Paul Green (Yup, he of Paul Green Masts fame, fellow yachties!) was the Flight Captain of Record for this historic occasion in the young life of Velvet Sky Airlines who have a catchy and familiar tag line; \u201cBe Flown Away\u201d. Now I could go on about the purple colour, throw in some cheesy 70\u2032s music and swop the \u2018F\u2019 for a \u2018B\u2019 but this is a family publication \u2026\u2026\u2026.. Sjoe \u2013 glad I got that out of my system!<\/p>\n At present Velvet Sky<\/a> are offering some good deals on fares for those who get in quick with one way ticket prices ranging from R439.00.<\/p>\n Velvet Sky Airline \u2013 South Africa\u2019s first 100% BEE airline\u2019s touched down (according to my watch) at 3:17:08 on Friday 4 November 2011 on their inaugral flight from Durban to Port Elizabeth. There to greet the flight was the NMB Executive Mayor, Zanoxolo Wayile, various members of the Mayoral Committee and, representing NMBT, Mandlakazi Skefile. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-5090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Butitye](\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6d7d7_Velvet_Sky_Konki_Nthathi_Wayile-150x150.jpg\")
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\nButitye Konki (Partner in Velvet Sky), and Stephen Ntithe (Velver Sky Chairman) are welcomed to Port Elizabeth by Mayor Zanoxolo Wayile.<\/span>
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\nExecutive Mayor Zanoxolo Wayile, Flight Captain Paul Green and Steven Ntithe (Velvet Sky Chairman).<\/span>
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\nThe First DBN to PLZ Velvet Sky flight touches down on the Port Elizabeth Runway.<\/span>
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\nPort Elizabeth airport fire engines douse the Velvet Sky Airplane with a traditional water cannon greeting.<\/span>
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\nThumbs up as Velvet Sky cuts engines.<\/span>
\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"