"30 odd foreign consultants on their way to SAA to help the CEO figure out how badly he and his executive team have screwed up the airline?"
If that is true its a disgrace. Consultants are idiots you pay to give you bad advice you couldn't have thought of your self.
Wasn't there a CEO in the late 80's with the surname Moolman, apparently we was awesome the best SAA have had, so I have heard from some staff.
Their CEO needs to go, SAA don't seem to have a cash flow problem they have a management problem. Their ballooning lease agreements kill them, their appointment of people with no airline experience, it all comes to a pretty drastic bottle neck of failures that will for the next few years continue to plague the airline as agreements are signed now will have to be re-drawn if SAA ever finds decent management.
SAA needs to drive costs down and things like no petrol cards, unless everybody had one is a waste of time, there must be more pressing issues like lease agreements, rotation.
DeskJockey and by the way some of SA's most lean and profitable companies give coffee with plastic spoons, serve Ricoffy, it isn't unheard of but after seeing Khaya's lavish lifestyle for so many years I doubt he is truly curtailing his expenses but rather not getting caught.