SAA - Too many employees?

OGroteKoning

OGroteKoning

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Can this be true? Is this old news? Is this a hoax?

I received this in an e-mail yesterday.

Flying handicapped?
Why is SAA always running at such a huge loss and forever requesting ‘bail outs’ from the government?
The reason appears to be quite simple – they have too many people working for them and the business simply cannot afford it!
Many of these SAA employees fall into the ‘protected employees’ category, (those that simply have a job and do very little to substantiate their worth. In fairness, SAA also had them during the apartheid days), and our Employment Act prevents the SAA from simply ‘getting rid’ of surplus or unnecessary staff.
In any business it is vitally important to keep ones staff numbers to an absolute necessary minimum. This would be in line with the principle of keeping ones overall overheads to a minimum.
I conducted a website search of some random airlines (listed below) in order to gauge the total number of employees at that airline, measured against their total number of aircraft in the fleet. I simply divided the total number of employees by the total number of aircraft in the fleet which in turn indicated how many employees in the airline are employed PER AIRCRAFT in the fleet.
It must be noted that my research was not conducted in depth and some of the numbers below reflect from 2010 – 2012.
Interestingly enough, when attempting to download SAA’s 2010 Annual Report, when clicking on it, nothing happens!
Have a look at my ‘shock and horror’ below:
1) QANTAS (Australian) 32 500 employees with a total of 252 aircraft = 129 employees per aircraft
2) American Airlines 87 897 employees with a total of 618 aircraft = 142 employees per aircraft
3) Delta Airlines 106 216 employees with a total of 722 aircraft = 147 employees per aircraft
4) British Airways 36 832 employees with a total of 238 aircraft = 154 employees per aircraft
5) United Airlines 115 149 employees with a total of 710 aircraft = 162 employees per aircraft
6) South African Airways 55 500 employees with a total of 58 aircraft = 957 employees per aircraft
Numbers above are subject to change depending on latest figures.
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Interestingly enough, when attempting to download SAA’s 2010 Annual Report, when clicking on it, nothing happens!
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Yeah right, right here I stop reading. If you cannot even download a pdf then how can I trust that your figures are correct (downloaded myself to confirm, nothing wrong with the download)

Sounds more like made up facts than anything else.
 
OGroteKoning said:
1) QANTAS (Australian) 32 500 employees with a total of 252 aircraft = 129 employees per aircraft
2) American Airlines 87 897 employees with a total of 618 aircraft = 142 employees per aircraft
3) Delta Airlines 106 216 employees with a total of 722 aircraft = 147 employees per aircraft
4) British Airways 36 832 employees with a total of 238 aircraft = 154 employees per aircraft
5) United Airlines 115 149 employees with a total of 710 aircraft = 162 employees per aircraft
6) South African Airways 55 500 employees with a total of 58 aircraft = 957 employees per aircraft
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Why do people feel the need to jimmy the numbers to make things look worse when the actual numbers are already bad.

SAA 164.8 employees per aircraft
Kenya Airways with 104.7
Ethiopian Airlines with 126
Qantas in Australia with 109
American Airlines with 86
United Airlines with 71
Air India 221 workers per aircraft
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ClintZA said:
Why do people feel the need to jimmy the numbers to make things look worse when the actual numbers are already bad.
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I don't know the origin of the mail, but I agree. I will ask the sender if he knows where the mail originates from
 
SAA is run like the government/ANC - employ someone to do something, doesn't get done so employ more and still doesn't get done.
 
alf101 said:
Do SAA's numbers include the technical division?
There are 2600 people working there and they repair aircraft from all over the world, not just SAA.

They also have quite a few training facilities.
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2500 out of 55000 will only change the numbers by +-5% Regardless how you look at it Affirmative Action has hit SAA too. Only private companies still manage to keep head above water. Not for long though. AA MUST be implemented there too. Only then the destruction of SA would be complete. What a joke :D
 
intel8080 said:
2500 out of 55000 will only change the numbers by +-5% Regardless how you look at it Affirmative Action has hit SAA too. Only private companies still manage to keep head above water. Not for long though. AA MUST be implemented there too. Only then the destruction of SA would be complete. What a joke :D
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10 000 employees, 2500 of 10 000 is 25%

SAA, with just over 10 000 employees
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http://www.fin24.com/Companies/TravelAndLeisure/Spotlight-falls-on-SAA-efficiency-20121104
 
grim said:
10 000 employees, 2500 of 10 000 is 25%


http://www.fin24.com/Companies/TravelAndLeisure/Spotlight-falls-on-SAA-efficiency-20121104
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Look bud, no matter how you look at it, SAA is in pretty bad shape. Every big airline has some sort of 'full time' technical crew. The point was meaningless from the word go. And even if SAA should have been the only airline in the world with a technical crew the numbers would still look 'moer toe'. Hence you the tax payer must help (once again). Now shut up and bend over please :D
 
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