Comair Limited

(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)

(Registration Number: 1967/006783/06)

ISIN: ZAE00002983

Share Code: COM

("Comair" or "the Company")

NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLISHED BUSINESS RESCUE PLAN

  1. Shareholders of the Company ("Shareholders") are hereby advised that a Notice of
    Amendments to the Comair Business Rescue Plan has been published, the details of which are contained in this announcement.
  2. Capitalised terms used but not defined in this notice, shall bear the meaning as defined in the

Business Rescue

Plan,

as amended on

17 September 2020, and

Adopted on

18 September 2020,

and

amended thereafter

as set out in the Status

Report dated

  1. 30 November 2020 ("the Plan").

  2. The Plan provides at paragraph 13.5 that "[if] the Business Rescue Plan requires amendment and the amendment is materially prejudicial to certain creditors but not to others, then the approval of that amendment will be procured in writing from those that have been so prejudiced.".
  3. The BRPs of the Company, with the knowledge and consent of the Investors, hereby notify Affected Persons of the following amendments to the Plan:

Clause of the

Adopted

Amendment

Business Rescue Plan

Paragraph 1.3.21

Replace the definition of "Creditors" with the following words:

"means any creditors, whether Disputed Creditors or Contingent Creditors, with a monetary claim against the Company"

New Paragraph 6.6.9.2.3 Insert a new paragraph 6.6.9.2.3 after paragraph 6.6.9.2.2 with the following words:

"Performance by the Company under certain agreements will result in significant hardship to the Company, which poses a threat to the future viability of the Company. Accordingly, the BRPs are hereby empowered and the Company has taken or intends to take such steps as may be necessary to cancel and/or reject, inter alia, the following agreements and/or any obligations thereunder:

  1. the Purchase Agreement PA-04055, as revised, between the Company and the Boeing Company in relation to Boeing-Model737-8 Max Aircraft, concluded in or about September 2013, together with the letter agreements, supplemental agreements, and the Aircraft General Terms Agreement;
  2. the term sheet for the operation lease of one with A320 CEO concluded on or about 13 January 2019 between

SIM International B.V, as lessor, and the Company, as

lessee, together with any agreements between the

parties that may have been concluded pursuant

thereto;

6.6.9.2.3.3 other onerous long term contracts, if any, to be

identified,

and, upon notice of cancellation or rejection the contractual

counterparty is required to submit a provisional claim for

damages (if applicable) under the agreement in accordance

with the procedure set out in paragraph 11.3"

New paragraph 6.6.9.2A

Insert a new paragraph 6.6.9.2A in between new paragraph

6.6.9.2.3 and paragraph 6.6.9.3 with the following words:

"Repudiation of Contracts- Performance by the Company

under certain agreements will result in significant hardship to

the Company, which poses a threat to the future viability of

the Company. Accordingly, the Company will no longer

perform under the following agreements:

6.6.9.2A.1 the lease agreements, as revised, between HPF

Properties Proprietary Limited, as lessor, and the

Company, as lessee, in respect of shop 1, 6, and

8 of the Gautrain Hotel on the corner of Rivonia

and West Streets, Sandton (previously Slow in

the City) and shop 19 on retail level 1 in Sandton

Eye on the corner of Rivonia and West Streets,

Sandton (previously known as The Course

Restaurant); and

6.6.9.2A.2 other onerous long term contracts, if any, to be

identified,

and, the counterparty to such agreements would be entitled

to submit a claim for damages under the cancelled

agreement in accordance with the procedure set out in

paragraph 11.3"

Paragraph 6.9.2.5

Revise paragraph 6.9.2.5 to read:

"The Company shall establish a reserve for Disputed Claims

that have not been determined prior to the Payment Date

and maintain the reserve until such time as the claim has

been determined in terms of paragraph 11. If a Disputed

Claim has been accepted, the Company shall pay to such

Creditor the Distribution to which it would have been entitled

had its Claim been accepted before the Payment Date."

Paragraph 8.5.6

Revise paragraph 8.5.6 to read:

The BRPs acknowledge that the Investors will procure that

an offer ("Offer") to acquire the remaining 1% of the shares

in the Company, be implemented by one of a number of

possible mechanisms, including a scheme of arrangement,

will (i) be made be made as soon as is practicable; and (ii)

include, an application to terminate the listing of all the

Company shares from the main board of the JSE. For the

purposes of procuring the passing of the necessary

resolutions by the Company's shareholders to achieve the

aforegoing, the BRPs confirm they have already received

irrevocable undertakings from certain material shareholders

of the Company and undertake to use their Best Efforts to the

extent that it is within their power so to do to assist the

Investors to procure the support of additional shareholders

so that the requisite majority can be obtained for the passing

of all resolutions required to achieve the aforegoing."

Paragraph 11.1

Insert "and the Company's counterclaims, if any", after the

words "Disputed Claims"

Paragraph 11.2

Insert "and the Company's counterclaims, if any", after the

words "Disputed Claims"

Paragraph 11.3.1

Insert "and the Company's counterclaims, if any", after the

words "Disputed Claims"

Paragraph 11.3.2

Insert the following sentence at the end of paragraph 11.3.2:

"Notwithstanding

a

Disputed

Creditor's

deemed

abandonment of its Disputed Claims, as such, the Company

may continue to prosecute its counterclaims, if any, against

that Disputed Creditor, and may accordingly request the

chairman of AFSA or its successor in title, to nominate an

arbitrator to decide the Company's counterclaims "

Revised paragraph 11.3.4

Revise paragraph 11.3.4 to read:

"To the extent that the arbitrator as nominated refuses to act

or is not available to act, the Disputed Creditor must within 7

days of receiving notice of the arbitrator's refusal or

unavailability, request AFSA to appoint an alternate arbitrator

until one such arbitrator is available, and is agreeable, to act.

Should the Disputed Creditor not request AFSA to appoint an

alternate arbitrator, within the period allowed, then the

Disputed Creditor shall be deemed to have abandoned its

Claim and will not, in terms with section 154 of the

Companies Act, be able to enforce any Claim that, that

creditor believes is owed to it by the Company.

Notwithstanding a Disputed Creditor's deemed abandonment

of its Disputed Claims, as such, the Company may continue

to prosecute its counterclaims, if any, against that Disputed

Creditor, and may accordingly request the chairman of AFSA

or its successor in title to appoint an alternate arbitrator until

one such arbitrator is available, and is agreeable, to decide

the Company's counterclaims

  1. THESE AMENDMENTS MUST BE APPROVED BY CREDITORS IN WRITING IN TERMS OF SECTION 152(2) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, AS READ WITH PARAGRAPH 13.5 OF THE PLAN, BY INDICATING ON OR BEFORE 29 MARCH 2021 IN AN EMAIL TO creditorsvoting@comair.co.za WHETHER OR NOT THEY SUPPORT THESE AMENDMENTS. IF SUCH A VOTE IS CAST BY EMAIL UNDER POWER OF ATTORNEY OR ON BEHALF OF A COMPANY, SUCH AUTHORITY (I.E. POWER OF ATTORNEY (FOR AN INDIVIDUAL) OR AUTHORISING RESOLUTION (FOR A JURISTIC PERSON), AS APPLICABLE) MUST ACCOMPANY THE EMAIL.
  2. In order to vote as such on these amendments to the Business Rescue Plan a Creditor must have submitted a Claim or provisional Claim by 24 MARCH 2021, and the amount of any such Claim will carry a voting interest as assessed and estimated by the BRPs based on the Company's books and records, but, in no event, shall a Claim (including a provisional Claim, a Contingent Claim or a Disputed Claim) carry a voting interest less than R1.00. Therefore, if there are Creditors, including Contingent Creditors and Disputed Creditors, who believe they have a Claim against Comair, but have not yet submitted their Claim, then they are requested to please download and complete the Claim Form at https://www.comair.co.za/business- rescue/creditor-claims,and to submit it to creditorclaims@comair.co.za.
  3. In this regard, such Claims may be accepted or rejected by the BRPs either provisionally (for purposes only to allow a Creditor to vote on this amendment and without prejudice to the BRPs rights under paragraphs 6.9, 7.3.1.1 and the Dispute Resolution Mechanism set out in the Plan), or finally.
  4. THE DATE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF CLAIMS HAS BEEN EXTENDED. THIS NOTICE IS ACCORDINGLY BEING SENT TO ALL AFFECTED PERSONS.

IF YOU HAVE NOT FILED A CLAIM AND PROVIDED SUFFICIENT

DOCUMENTATION TO PROVE YOUR CLAIM AGAINST THE

COMPANY, YOUR MUST FILE YOUR CLAIMS OR YOUR RIGHTS

MAY BE MATERIALLY AFFECTED BY THE PLAN.

9. All Creditors, including Contingent Creditors and Disputed Creditors, who are not reflected in Annexure B to the Plan, as amended, and who have not yet lodged their Claims against the Company, are required to provisionally lodge such Claims (with supporting documentation for each such claim) by no later than 24 March 2021.

IF YOU FAIL TO FILE A CLAIM, YOUR CLAIM WILL BE EXPUNGED

AND YOU MAY BE FOREVER BARRED FROM ENFORCING YOUR

CLAIM AGAINST THE COMPANY.

10. If, once such Claims have been finally accepted either by the BRPs or as a consequence of the Dispute Resolution Mechanism, the BRPs will be required to amend Annexure B to the Plan, and where an amendment to Table 1 of the Plan may or may not also be necessary, as follows:

in terms of paragraph 13.2 of the Plan, the BRPs may in their sole and absolute discretion, amend, modify or vary any provision of the Plan, provided that (i) any amendment will not be materially prejudicial to any of the Affected Persons; (ii) at all times the BRPs act reasonably, and (iii) with the knowledge and consent of the Investors, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed by the Investors. For purposes of determining a materially prejudicial outcome, paragraph 13.1 of the Plan provides that an outcome that results in Distributions to Creditors that would be less than the estimated liquidation dividend to as calculated by PWC and set out in Table 1, would be considered to be materially prejudicial;

if the Plan requires an amendment that is materially prejudicial to certain creditors, but not to others, then the approval of that amendment will be procured by the BRPs in writing from those creditors that have been so prejudiced, pursuant to paragraph 13.5 of the Plan; or

in terms of paragraph 13.6 of the Plan, if an amendment to the Plan will be materially prejudicial and the provisions of paragraph 13.5 of the Plan are either not applicable, or not met, then such amendments will be considered at a meeting of all Creditors and will be subject to the same voting threshold as was required for adoption of the Plan.

11. All creditors are reminded that all notices and the Plan, as amended, may be viewed on Comair's website by following this link: https://www.comair.co.za/business-rescue.

05 March 2021

Sponsor

PSG Capital

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS AND PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS

FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS AND PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS IN COMAIR LIMITED ("COMAIR") SHOULD NOTE THAT, IN ORDER TO ENABLE COMAIR (AS A LICENSED AIR SERVICES OPERATOR IN SOUTH AFRICA) TO REMAIN COMPLIANT WITH THE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP RESTRICTION CONTAINED SECTIONS 16(4)(c) AND 19(a) OF THE AIR SERVICES LICENSING ACT, NO. 115 OF 1990, THE VOTING RIGHTS OF FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS MAY BE DECREASED PROPORTIONATELY SUCH THAT THE VOTING RIGHTS OF FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS DO NOT, IN AGGREGATE, EXCEED 24.99%. FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS AND PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS ARE REFERRED TO THE COMAIR'S MEMORANDUM OF INCORPORATION AND WEBSITE (www.comair.co.za) FOR FURTHER DETAILS. IF FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS OR PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS ARE IN ANY DOUBT AS TO WHAT ACTION TO TAKE THEY SHOULD SEEK ADVICE FROM THEIR BROKER, ATTORNEY OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVISER.

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