I'd also like to see where the SAA or any other party denied anything in relation to these flights except for possibly some random posters on here.
But, sure, the point is that no response is being sought from the SAA. They're just merrily spinning that they've recorded their first increase in passenger numbers for years.
However, making claims that "they" paid for the flights, when you have no idea who paid for them, what was the cost, whether it was shared by more than one party, what part of whose budget it came from or even what the purpose of the flights were.. is OTT.
Ah, here. You're just throwing up a smokescreen, in the hope that you can move attention away from the plain fact that 4.500 people got on free flights that took off from SNN, flew around in a circle and landed again, and were counted as 9,000 passengers.