They screwed SAA over with the LCC concept (which has blatantly excluded SAA pilots)
Really funny sentence, old chap. I understood that you were welcome to put in a CV when Mango started up. Or do you mean that they blatantly refused to offer SAA salaries to pilots to fly the LOW COST aircraft.
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?
DJ, the rebate issue came slightly later. When Mango started the age 63 thing was quite big. I guess that is what FO Nut is referring to (and I also know that a sentence is not supposed to end with a preposition).
I don't really understand his gripe. It has been common knowledge for years that time to command in SAA is 10-15 years. That still has not changed. At least as FO he earns the same, if not more, than Captains at the other local airlines.
Now if SAA can just survive long enough for FO Nut to get command.......