Carbonbrake:
Surely, that should read Coockoo Land
In any case, assuming that anyone whose abode is not among cows and cheese lacks any brain is probably par for the course, given the absence of any substance in your contribution to this thread.
You have to live up to the fact that the one and only reason for the entire SAir Group collapse is to be found in the company's own and tragically unsuccessful expansion strategy in the 90s. And that again was a result of the refusal of top SAir brass to acknowledge what the rest of the world had already known for a long time: that SR was not one of the megacarriers and that it could thus not be a leader in any major alliance. Thus, they set out to create a second-tier alliance (Qualiflyer) which would allow them to play first fiddle (never mind that the other members happened to be either insolvent or from microeconomies or both).
The saddest part of it all is that some contributors to this forum, inlcuding yourself, Hold at Saffa, and Hunter 58, are still incapable of seeing the economic realities of today's world. A country the size of a cow pat with some 7 million people cannot be home to a major carrier, as it lacks the necessary domestic market.
Reading your patriotic stuff reminds me of what one of our teachers (I did go to school in Switzerland) used to say when simplistic ideas were dished up as mantra: "So, wie Klein-Hänschen sich die Welt vorstellt....:"
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: Hooking Fell ]
[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: Hooking Fell ]