Bad news for SAA F/O's - according to a full page career piece placed in a local Cape paper by SAA for Flight Attendants, "an in-flight coordinator is the second in command to the captain and in charge of the cabin crew on local and international flights". Imagine an in-flight emergency where the captain is incapacitated??
Seems like the chain of command at SAA has become rather distorted. Watch out SAA captains, you could be next to slide down the slippery slope.
Fly low and slow, especially round the corners!