He said the practitioners, appointed on December 5, were not put there to run an airline but rather to emerge with a plan so that competent managers were appointed to run the national carrier.
Gordhan said the two business rescue practitioners shared a total of R30m between them for a period of four months as their fee.
Gordhan said government had since employed the services of an aviation expert company to chart a way for a new airline to replace SAA. He said labour union representatives at SAA had participated in one or two technical workshops in designing a future airline and making a contribution.“What we require as an outcome of this process is a viable airline, retaining as many workers as we could and retaining as many jobs as we could, which is quite important in the current economic context and making the airline non-reliant on the fiscus,” he added.
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