I don't have any wish to see any salary cuts, but I think that the SAA guys overstate the importance of their packages for the general level of pay in SA.
Our company has made it quite clear that SAA packages have zero influence at negotiations and that we can stop bringing it up. This is obviously minuted and the reverse will be true if SAA did take pay cuts.
I hope that my fellow pilots at SAA can weather this exercise and that no retrenchments/furloughs are in the offing.