Well said, Banoi and jumbo Mouse. Skyvan although I admire your loyalty to your company, I'm afraid you're farting against thunder. SAA might be run by new faces, but the old arrogant, bully boy attitude is still there. With each day that goes past it becomes more apparent that this whole episode was purely to get rid of a competitor that has shown SAA up to be a 3rd rate airline year after year. "A steady, controlled liquidation" that would "look after the interest of the Sun Air" pax I think you said? I presume you wrote that tongue in cheek, if not you're living in dream world, boy. As Banoi points out, SAA does not have the capacity to fly all the extra pax, so they're on standby. I think I'd rather have my interests looked after by someone else, thanks!
While on this sorry subject, anyone else from foreign airlines who is reading this - be awarec that SAA has placed an embargo on all rebated (ID90)travel by staff of other airlines. If you are have been planning to use your interline agreements to travel in South Africa in the next few weeks it would seem you will have to make other plans. Nice one, SAA, I sincerely hope my airline is doing to your staff what you have done to me.