Former SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana resigned in May 2019, after less than two years in the post. In his resignation letter Jarana blamed bureaucracy, increasingly "blurred" lines of accountability and a battle to obtain funding for his decision to step down. An aviation economist says the airline's current rescue plan is simply the same unsustainable structure which existed before. Just seven months after his resignation, SAA was in business rescue, a process which has dragged on over the past almost eight months. A worrying prospect is that the business rescue plan [leaves] most of the current structure remains intact," says Mulder.

Source: News 24 July 22, 2020 17:50 UTC