Global reasons for keeping SAA grounded and adopting open skies policy
I have not always seen eye to eye with finance minister Tito Mboweni — we have had our differences about the appropriateness of inflation targeting as a monetary policy philosophy sanctioned by the Treasury to be implemented by the Reserve Bank. But I cannot agree with him more about asking the valid question about whether SA should have a national airline.
Here are the global reasons I think he is right to imply that the answer might be no. And I have a further proposal that could turn what has thus far been a commercial disaster into a trendsetting triumph: SA should instead adopt a genuinely “open skies” policy so that, with the necessary health and safety protocols in place, whoever wants to fly to SA can...
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