They are the old-timers now occupying the left seat of the orange -800's. They screwed SAA over with the LCC concept (which has blatantly excluded SAA pilots) so as to line their own eroded pension funds, whilst clueless management (DJ included) followed along without an inkling of the consequences.
Jetbut, you just continue to drag the name of SAA pilots down with these moronic posts of yours. The whole LCC discussion has been had already, SAAPA (that means you) gave it the green light. Mango is using these guys as a resource, they get paid what Mango stipulated, if they were not there then Mango would have recruited other guys to do the work. The fact that younger pilots now feel aggrieved is their own fault- they had the chance to do something about it and they didn’t. I cant help but wonder if the reason SAAPA dropped the ball here is because they were more interested in taking the company on on travel concessions so that pilots wives and girlfriends/etc were guaranteed seats instead of going on standby?
Perhaps you need to have a re-look at who are going to be the biggest losers as a result of Mango.