Was Watts not offloaded from an SAA flight a couple of years ago? But I am sure you as a tax payer, is probably paying someones sallary at airways shrike? I cant remember who posted it but there was a breakdown of how much SAA costs (In the region of R160 per year) individual tapayers in SA. This is not nearly as unuasual as you think. In Europe and the rest of the civilised world, there are routes (on tender) that are subsidised by goverments. What do you think Gautrain is costing? Being a totally indipendend public entity. I don't think for a minute that SAA is the be all, but I do think that there is an Agenda with all you hard working taxpayers! Must be tough being that bitter.