Do you think SAA can be saved?

Do you think SAA can be saved?

  • Yes

    Votes: 32 14.6%

  • No

    Votes: 187 85.4%
  • Total voters
    219
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Do you think SAA can be saved, or do you think it should be closed down or sold?
 
I think it can be... but not with the very wrong people involved, so the answer has to be no.
 
I do not like polls that give few options for reality. Yes, it can be saved. But not while the ANC is responsible for its saving. Perhaps if it were privatised, there may be hope. But the cadres will not let that happen. The result we are doomed to perpetually bailing out to keep it afloat.

The amount of money wasted, literally flushed down the bog, is disgusting. Housing. Education. Upliftment. etc. None of these meaningful things happen. All at the expense of the ANC's hands. Putrid swine!
 
No, it should be sold. The SAA have lost their customers. It will be very, very difficult to win them back.
 
Yes of course it can be saved.

They just need a bit of time, and 100 billion rand in bailouts over the next 5 years.
 
rpm said:
Do you think SAA can be saved, or do you think it should be closed down or sold?
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Yes it can be saved but it shouldn't be. Too expensive of an exercise.
Sell the assets and try to place staff with other airlines where possible.
 
In 2002, I sat at a check in counter checking people in for a competing airline. I was earning R5000 per month nett. The person sitting at the SAA counter next to me, doing the exact same job was earning R11000.

SAA has too many people (Thanks BEE) earning too much money (Thanks apartheid) for too long.

They can't retrench staff because their union will have a **** fit. They can't unanimously decide on a global pay cut for everyone (like comair successfully implemented) because of entitlement (thanks BEE) and their union will have a **** fit.

SAA is not financially sustainable. Dead weight. Muertos.

The biggest issue is all the other airlines who SAA owes at least R20m to SA Express. SAA is now protected under business rescue, so SA Express is screwed.

SA Express and SAA collectively owe SA Airlink R700m who is now critically short on operating capital. SA Express is now also protected under business rescue as per the recent high court ruling, despite being appealed.

SA Airlink is South Africa's largest airline with more routes than anyone else. They are privately owned, and have no means to get any of their money back, because SA Express and SAA are both protected under business rescue.

Any bets on which airline goes under first? If the government isn't careful how this matter is handled, a large portion of the entire airline industry could implode.
 
bromster said:
Any bets on which airline goes under first? If the government isn't careful how this matter is handled, a large portion of the entire airline industry could implode.
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There is always a stack of domino's where there is inter-dependent economies....
 
Poll needs at least 4 options.
SAA will be saved.
But it will only be a matter of time that it will have to be saved again as nothing is going to change thanks to clueless cadre deployments by Government.
 
Can it be saved? Sure
Should it be saved? Oh hellz no.
 
Yes, in a parallel universe where the people in management have the relevant qualification and experience.

Unfortunately this is the darkest timeline.:oops:
 
Poorly worded poll question.

Anything can be saved with enough money and time.

Can SAA be saved based on the current Business Rescue process and allocated funding, loss of trust? NO
 
They needed to act before flights were cancelled and people were inconvenienced and scared off ever buying SAA tickets again. The only reason they are still going is so fat cat government officials can fly free.
 
No, only if KLM/Air France or any other major international airline company will take them over with no involvement from the SA government.
 
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