Is it safe to fly in SA?

[kaspaas]

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A180654

Air Traffic Controllers over worked and underpaid.

 

[craigsa]

This freaking place is a circus

 

[killadoob]

craig you should move to another country buddy

 

[Skeptik]

craig you should move to another country buddy

This is like being in another country. Getting more like Zim every day!

 

[IanC]

... had recruited air-traffic controllers from Scotland and Ireland to make up the shortages and was paying them 30% more than local staff, the union said.

Wouldn't it have been easier all round just to pay SA ATC's 30% more?

Stander, however, denies that foreign nationals are paid more than their South African counterparts. She said all traffic controllers were paid in the same salary band.

How can she stand there saying this when they are having to pay the imported UK and Irish ATC's 30% more?

 

[Skeptik]

These controllers were/are on secondment from Europe. They are here on contract so cant compare remuneration directly.

 

[IanC]

These controllers were/are on secondment from Europe. They are here on contract so cant compare remuneration directly.

Is that because of things like a "living out" allowance, etc?