{"id":700083,"date":"2023-06-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=700083"},"modified":"2023-06-30T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:24:45","slug":"business-talk-lift-ceo-jonathan-ayache-on-the-state-of-the-south-african-airline-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/700083\/business-talk-lift-ceo-jonathan-ayache-on-the-state-of-the-south-african-airline-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Lift CEO Jonathan Ayache on the state of the South African airline industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk with Michael Avery, Jonathan Ayache \u2013 Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lift \u2013 shares his thoughts on the South African airline industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayache&#8217;s aviation experience includes extensive involvement in strategy development and implementation, building and scaling operational processes, and driving consumer growth and global expansions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayache also spent six years working at Uber and was among the first employees in Africa to help build and scale the business on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He holds a Bachelor of Business Science, Finance, Economics, and Statistics, as well as an Honours in Business Science from the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Ayache shares his thoughts on the state of the South African aviation industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He discusses how passenger behaviour is different now compared to before the pandemic and offers his outlook on the industry\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayache also speaks about Lift&#8217;s progress towards its launch goals and touches on the advantages of the recent partnership between Lift and Veldskoen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes the interview by explaining the big plans Lift has for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Jonathan Ayache below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk \u2013 Lift CEO Jonathan Ayache discusses the state of the South African airline industry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wldr_IiciCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Ayache is the CEO of Lift and boasts over 10 years of experience working in the South African and international aviation industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":700089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700637,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700083\/revisions\/700637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}