The department of public enterprises says it's 'disappointed' in pilots seemingly not realising the airline is financially depleted and fighting for its survival.
The department of public enterprises says it’s ‘disappointed’ in pilots seemingly not realising the airline is financially depleted and fighting for its survival.
SAA went into business rescue in December last year, following years of losses and repeated state bailouts to the tune of R30 billion over the past ten years. The initial rescue plan said only 1 000 SAA’s almost 5 000 employees would be retained, and around 2 700 retrenched. In terms of the DPE’s proposal, another 1 000 could be placed in temporary skills development programmes and the rest retrenched.
In the view of the DPE, its VSPs and a vote to accept the proposed rescue plan would be “the most expeditious option” for the national carrier to restructure into “a new viable, sustainable, competitive airline that provides integrated domestic, regional and international flight services”.The DPE expects Saapa will insist on amendments of the rescue plan during Tuesday’s creditors’ meeting, warning it will be to the detriment of the future prospects of SAA.
“We maintain our stance that the status must change in the new SAA in that all employees must be treated equally,” said NTM president Mashudu Raphetha.“The NTM Pilot Forum has without wavering championed the cause of transformation, and redressing the imbalances of the past which had ensured that a minority of pilot community had enjoyed opulence at the expense of the entire SAA workforce, derived from their ‘evergreen contracts’ steeped in the pre-1994 mindset…,” said Raphetha.
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