Well there is agreement here that DJ built a very good domestic business and blew it on international. But it had to go international didn't it. The 777s were a very good idea, and from reading around, putting them on Joberg was a very stupid place to use them.
If some posters are right about the LAX route now making money that stupid move by the cockroaches was right to.
Reading other threads, it could be that DJ has less going wrong for it than QF.