LETTER: Ethiopian airlines shows SAA the best route to take
The national carrier needs sound fiscal management, not more handouts from the government
07 October 2019 - 15:42
Ethiopian Airlines, posting great numbers and in the process supplanting SAA as the continent’s leading carrier, provides an abject lesson in sound fiscal management to the local troubled company.
Living on “handouts” for the past decade and showing no sign of redress in its style of operation, SAA is a spin-off of state capture that, along with other parastatals, has become a sore point in our chequered postapartheid past...
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