JAMIE CARR: Comair — A cut above SA Airways
Its results show a return to its proud record of growth, and the fruits of its fleet modernisation
Compare and contrast, if you will, the state of two of the outfits that compete to transport the khaki-clad tourist and harried businessperson across our sunny skies. On the one hand you have SA Airways (SAA), the national carrion, startling the traveller with the unparalleled grumpiness of its cabin staff and doing its Oliver Twist routine at the door of national treasury every 20 minutes. Then there’s Comair, which does not have the option of trotting off to Johnny Taxpayer for a bailout every time it makes a total hash of things.One has a management team with years of hard-won aviation experience; the other is headed by a bunch of politically connected clowns who have years of demonstrating their inability to manage their way out of a paper bag. If government were serious about fixing SAA, rather than just hurling ever-larger sacks of loot at it in the vain hope it’ll all come right this time, it could do a lot worse than to hand the big beast over to the Comair team to sort out....
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