Staff Ratios
SAA is an unproductive airline at the moment. Have a look at these figures. They are from the the airlines own web sites so they should be correct.
QUANTAS- 179 people per a/c
SAA- 229
KLM- 193
AIR FRANCE- 189
CATHAY- 161
As for the pilots been unproductive. What a load of crap. Can every stop with that line of thinking. SAA rosters it's pilots. The pilots don't roster themselves. As a A319 F/O I get rostered for between 65 and 75 hrs a month. They are also welcome to roster me to the max legal limit.
There are far to many people sitting in dark corner offices playing Solitier who were employed for all the wrong reasons. Even our CEO admitted he had to employ 2 people for every one job that needed to be filled.