OK. Let me help you. It will all end up where it should have. A new smaller SAA with a Redefined Purpose and Redefined Strategy and Structure will be announced by DPE after consultation with the BRP. Excess staff shall be retrenched quickly.
TREASURY will agree to fund this new entity as well as the retrenchment costs. The new SAA will now be in a position to enter into partnership eg with Ethiopian Airlines. But ET demands absolutely NO interference from DPE. NONE WHATSOEVER. And in writng.
This is the scenario that Jarana pursued. He even discussed it with ET. They agreed in principle. But he was systematically thwarted by DPR and an ill-fitting board with no airline experience whatsoever. We are back there now. Read: businesslive.co.za/amp/bd/nationa…
As @palilj01 has stated we have a penchant to create self-inflicted and politically ego driven tragedies and then with a straight face call them crises. SAA has always fitted this description. I urge President Ramaphosa to plse pay attention to this.
