Beta Light , I like your attitude. SAA does need to change it's form. Personally as someone that works on the other side of the world , I do not think that the SAA salary is excessive for the line of operation. I do think that it is too clumsy as an organization and it does need major restructuring especially from a ground and cabin crew prospective. With regards to the pilots, no pilots not flying = no revenue.
I also think that if the salary gets reduced then the pilots will end up going to better paying jobs, which will cost the airline in training resources and then defeat the cost cutting exercise.
With regards to SAX being 100% Transnet owned I thought SAA was 100% Transnet owned too...is this still the case?