Reading through all of this I am strangely (being no lover of SAA) moved to say what I notice here. Instead of bashing SAA (which I too love)'s pilot salaries, we should be bashing the other local airlines to up the ante and pay competitive salaries. Unless everybody is paid their worth, there will always be someone who feels hard done by.
Must say that spoories drivers are a little quick to gloat, always dragging the whole employment envy out of the closet. Remember that guys at the other carriers didnt chose their salaries and type of hardware they operate, they are just trying to make an existance, like you. Albeit in a slightly less cushy environment.
Airline pilots should be standing together to raise the level of what is on offer here in SA, instead of the tiresome verbal masturbation contest we witness here daily.
