Back to the age old debate about Airways' salaries. Those that claim that Airways pilots earn too much, and the airline can't make ends meet as a result, do not understand the issues at SAA.
SAA presently has one of the highest ratios of employees to aircraft. How is one supposed to make money when one is employing 2 to 3 times as many people per aircraft. I've heard approximate figures that the industry standard is around 100 employees per aircraft. SAA has around 300! Why victimise the pilots saying they earn too much? Or is it just jealousy? What about upper management that get fat bonus cheques, even when the company has a bad year! Do people not remember the Coleman Andrews era? Do people remember how much he earnt? It run into the hundreds of millions!
