Originally Posted by
Street garbage
So SA, why are there 10,000 people still stood up?
Probably better to ask them yourself.
My best guess - because some of those functions need to continue, even while the airline is grounded (maintenance, pay, managing leases etc), some will be dealing with major changes to the business because of the pandemic (renegotiating contacts and loans, wargaming and setting up plans for different pandemic durations, working with regulators on things like currency and slot retention), and some of them will be working to ensure that we're positioning ourselves for the best restart possible (what to do with Sunrise, bringing forward maintenance and refurbs, figuring out which routes are likely to start up first and making sure we have everything in place for them).
I have no idea whether we have too many or too few staff stood up at the moment. But, at face value, there's still plenty of work to be done even if we're all grounded.
There's more to running an airline than us.