After a certain amount of time spent under the tutelage of the man in the left hand seat, the buckaroo first officer will, if he has any grip on that over bloated concept known as CRM coupled with an intelligence quota of an even dinosauric level, realise that the words experience and good can mean two entirely different things in a cockpit. It is for this reason, among others, is it not, that a monitored approach at SAA is always flown by the first officer while the judgement calls are left to the man with the greater experience?
It's no disgrace for a tax payer, who is after all a partial shareholder, to criticise the national carrier of his country. Indeed, some might say it was his duty to do so. But for a mere worker within that company to expect financial compliance and emotional obedience from both the public and the tax payer, cloaked in the guise of rabid patriotic fervour reminds one of that fat little deranged fellow from Uganda, Idi Amin. He ended up in Saudi Arabia, perhaps as an air vice marshall?
Arrogance and inability to comprehend the viewpoints of others are ill bed fellows in the cockpit. The vainglorious assumption that because someone does not fly for the treasured transport company means that an application was both made and was then rejected reflects an attitude more usually found in the dunces' corner of the kindergarten.
But then perhaps there is lurking here a degree of drift down from that well known flying ace, Wing Commander Roald Dahl for did he also, in his later years, write of trolls and suchlike airborne peculiarities?