"Do you for one moment think that management would allow the "royal game" to be fired?"
Maybe YES, look at the state of the airline today. Maybe No. Your guess will be as good as mine.
Affirmative action isn’t very popular in SA and in flying buck airways too. I have witnessed now aggrieved some of the buck personnel are, now that the shoe is on the other foot.
It is possible to intimidated and break the confidence of anyone (competent or not), if the powers that weald the pen decide too. I just hope the royal game was given every chance; if they weren’t that would have been a great injustice and a shame to all concerned.
I rest my case.