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No sooner said than done. Following my approach, the website has been promptly brought right up to date and even better, showing a 3% improvement to fastjet's OTP to an impressive 94%.

Ref: hammy374 and my posts of last Wednesday, regarding no response from fastjet concerning its website updating. I wrote again on Thursday to its agency, Mindpearl, forcefully asserting my point. Evidently they passed my comments on to Hein Kaiser, fastjet’s General Manager of Marketing and Communications, since I have just received this response from him a few minutes ago: “Kindly accept my apology for the lack of OTP [On Time Performance] and disruption updates on the site, it was an oversight and I have since requested that it be corrected. We are in the process of migrating systems and the update must have slipped through the cracks.   “Your concerns were valid and I thank you for making us aware of it.” Maybe we can now look forward to seeing some results soon while providing a more professional image.

Not according to Wolfgang's blog, Fjetcrazy - he was displaying a Facebook page.

Yeahl great!! First paragraph on Wolfgang’s page: “Our customers mean the world to us and we appreciate you immensely. If there is ever anything we can do for you, never hesitate to contact us at customer” At “customer” what?? https://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/fastjet-news/ “Reaching out to customers in a timely fashion”, Fjetcrazy? Not there yet!

Wished you'd posted that before Fjetcrazy; I wouldn't have spent 10 minutes sending them another snotty complaint this morning after yesterday's exchange!! Anyway, it'll be interesting to see the changes,

You’re whistling in the wind, I'm afraid, hammy374. I’ve had zilch response from fastjet to my posts drawing attention to the way out-of-date Updates panels on our Home Page. Looks so amateurish. I had higher hopes that, after speaking with Nico himself at this year’s AGM, we might see an improvement, but I’m still waiting.

Payment to easyGroup Holdings for the acquisition of all intellectual property rights associated with the fastjet brand has finally been confirmed. [RNS]. Another leap forward.

Despite what I wrote yesterday, about it proving to be a popular option, I did have the same thought, taskmaster, especially the "in Africa" angle. Let's just hope we've now reached that " time to run".

OK, if you want to be pedantic - like me! EasyJet's equivalent is branded as "Speedy Boarding".

I think that'll prove to be a very popular option, at least for as long they keep the premium at just $5. I always choose it whenever I fly with it's 'sister' company, with whom it costs a good bit more!

Make of this “fastjet / fastnews” development on Wolfgang’s blog what you will! https://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com Specifically there is a lengthy ‘boast’ from our spokesman Hein Kaiser on fastjet becoming the “airline brand with largest Facebook following in Africa” here: https://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/fastjet-fastnews/ I’m taking it as an early, positive sign of the company’s laudable intention to keep its existing and potential passengers in the loop and their questions and enquiries dealt with far more promptly. And in the process, maybe us too!

I daresay that will reappear soon in another release. But meanwhile, if you feel so inclined Fjetcrazy, perhaps you could copy and paste in the text as it's all blurred out to we non-subscribers! Thanks.

You have no need to apologise Ronwin, IMO. In Board terms, of course JT16’s a ‘newbie’ having posted just once before the one to which you referred. If you want to “share his history”, you’ll get a good indication from his very first post which showed a virulently anti-fastjet attitude along with a reference to another, unidentified poster as “smug”!

Hi Farruggia1967: I thought I'd better post this on the appropriate LSE Board, certain I'd find you there! But no. Though I see that another fastjetter is! Just wanted to let you know I added another 150% to my position there, benefiting from an unexpected slight dip this morning.

54p! Wow! That's the sort of tip to have!

My post at 10:41am yesterday should've begun "Even-longer-term investors (probably?) here CANNOT offer more than a purely speculative prediction about the company’s short-term future.....

Welcome to the LSE forum, Jasbir. Even-longer-term investors (probably?) here can offer more than a purely speculative prediction about the company’s short-term future. Some of us have been doing so regularly for a couple of years or more! To little avail. However, my personal view is that the share price has been languishing here at virtually its lowest-ever for several weeks so it can surely “only go up’?! More significantly, after a long period of pretty disastrous [mis-]management, this month marks the first year anniversary of the arrival of our new CEO, Nico Bezuidenhout, as you must know. He had 10 years experience with a similar low-cost airline in Africa and, already, there are visible signs of his and his team’s plans coming to fruition, even if it is not yet reflected in the SP. Ruthless trimming and wiser organisation overall should begin to show results anytime soon and certainly before this year is out, IMHO. I hope others will post their opinions as they may well differ from mine.

Farruggia1967: Well you seem to be proving to be right with Saturday’s tip. My initial research suggests that you’ve already more than doubled your investment, so congrats. I feel I’ve already missed the boat after more rises both yesterday and this morning but I guess they just confirm your forecast. So I’ve just taken up your tip and made an investment, modestly in keeping with funds presently available. I shall double that when a transfer of more is in place, later today I hope. Thanks again.

The link I omitted from my last post: http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-business-sc-companies-byo-115909.html

At the foot of this latest press release from Bulawayo 24 News, is a reference to fastjet’s recent celebrations quoting several statistics, ending with “an impressive 94 percent on-time performance...” I have no record of that particular percentage but in any case, our relevant home page panel is still lazily showing the 91% of last June. So I”m just wondering where that journal got its info from, or if it’s got the latest stat direct from fastjet or its agency.