Huge SAA flight cancellations

The_Librarian said:
Googling around gives 10071 employees and 50 aircraft = 201 employees per aircraft

Now I'm not sure which is correct or not.
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That figure of 10,071 is for the whole SAA group. As per this post on Avcom (in a thread discussing the planned retrenchments and subsequent strike), as of October 2017, this could be further broken down into:
  • SAA 5,752
  • SAAT 2,367
  • Mango 713
  • Air Chefs 1,237
  • SATC 2
In terms of the fleet, the most current list that I could find is this one on planespotters.net. 46 aircraft currently in service (including two Boeing 737-300 freighters flying for SAA Cargo), not including the 4 A350-900 about to join the fleet.

So, in my opinion, the calculation should be 5792 ÷ 50 = 115 employees per aircraft. It's debatable as to whether to include the SAAT or Air Chefs headcount since they supply other airlines as well, and it's unreasonable to include the Mango headcount. If we take that 115 employees per aircraft as a true figure, this would be a comparable employee to aircraft ratio to both British Airways and Qantas -- which, in my opinion, is even more worrisome, since this implies gross inefficiencies amongst SAA's employees.
 
Space said:
The 2-day industrial action at SAA is definitely good for the competition:

I live on the approach path to Cape Town International airport and am seeing increased frequency overhead today of FlySafair and Comair (British and Kulula) as well as SAA-affiliated Mango, SA-Airlink and SA-Express flights today, and doubtless they have higher seat occupancy without the need to discount, so they are operating at optimum profitability.
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Same here in PE.
 
Put the damn thing out of our misery, rather plough that money into creating better transport for all in ZA - we don't need a national airline and it benefits the minority.
 
It has 58 planes and employs more staff than all other airliners combined.


Corrupt to the core.
 
Well my sister is in the USA and coming back next week. Full credit to SAA customer services though - they were very helpful and rebooked her on a Virgin Atlantic flight via London.
 
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