Huge SAA flight cancellations

JayM said:
They've already decided to make an offer at the 14:00 meeting today to avert the strike.

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SAA makes new offer to unions as strike nears | Business

Unions are planning to start a strike in the early hours of Friday morning at SAA and SAA Technical.
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Great, they already caved. This is why we will never have a prosperous economy again. Unions will ruin all formal employment in the bargaining sectors.
 
As they don't have any more taxpayer money to throw at the problem, the meeting should prove to be interesting. Lets hope Tito sticks to his guns.
 
What kind of idiots do we have employed at SA. The world economy is struggling right now, SA's economy is struggling right now. SAA can't afford 8%, it can't afford 1% but the unions push for increases. If they carry on like this and do strike then there's a chance many more jobs will be lost, if not the shut down of SAA entirely. Idiots in charge of idiots.
 
I wonder how many SME's will go under with SAA?
 
Let them declare bankruptcy. These crap pilots demand that taxpayers get screwed over more to pay for their luxuries. Personally i say lets do an SAA revolt. We have already stopped flying with SAA from a company aspect. Thats over 20 000 person flights a year. If other companies folloe suite we can close it and let it be taken control of by Branson.
 
The EFF, meanwhile, in a statement on Thursday, said it would "join in [the strike] together with our ground forces".

"The failure of SAA cannot be blamed on ordinary workers," said the party.
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Weird analogy but I'm going with it.

Same thing if I fill a pot to the brim and begin boiling the water. Do I blame the water for spilling over? No. I'll be to blame but I'm still taking some water out the pot.

Same with SAA and their overstaffing. Workers aren't at fault but unfortunately they are the problem that needs to be rectified.
 
acidrain said:
Weird analogy but I'm going with it.

Same thing if I fill a pot to the brim and begin boiling the water. Do I blame the water for spilling over? No. I'll be to blame but I'm still taking some water out the pot.

Same with SAA and their overstaffing. Workers aren't at fault but unfortunately they are the problem that needs to be rectified.
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That’s deep man !
 
Offer rejected, strike to go ahead.

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The English HO is flying from NAM to CPT tomorrow, can she expect to see some muppets and chipmunks throwing things around and burning a few tyres?

She would like the entire tourist package please.... a car on fire would be nice..... :unsure: :sneaky:
 
deweyzeph said:
Who actually uses SAA anymore besides government ministers?
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Me, when flying from Wellington to visit family in Durban (parents are there).

The most direct route is on Qantas: early morning flight to Sydney to connect with their Sydney-Johannesburg flight. By the time it gets to Johannesburg (late afternoon SAST), the connection is too tight to make the last Comair flight to Durban (Qantas would prefer to book me on Comair due to both airlines being Oneworld members), and hence it's either connect to the late night SAA flights or spend a night in Johannesburg and be booked on the red-eye Comair flight to Durban. By the time I get in to Jan Smuts, I just want to end my journey and will take the SAA flight over.

And no, booking a Kulula/Mango/Flysafair flight on a separate ticket is not an option that I would take. Since it would be on a separate ticket, the low cost airline concerned will see me a a passenger originating from JNB (and not WLG), and would therefore treat me as a no-show if QF63 gets delayed and the connection in JNB missed.
 
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