I've said it once and I'll say again. As long as the Goverment dictates how SAA should be run and who should run it they must be prepared to pay for their lack of wisdom. If you don't like this fact you have the right to vote out the present goverment.
SAA has the potential to be profatable. It operates fuel effeciant a/c on routes with good load factors.
SAA's problem is that politcal interference takes precedent over commercial sense. Every Tom, Dick and Harry taking a dig at SAA drivers is rather pointless. The pilots would run the company alot differently I promise you. This is a pilots forum, if someone wants to take a dig at the we fly the a/c that's fine but please don't bitch at us about the way the company is run. There's nothing we can do about it.