Business rescue practitioners (BRPs) are battling to save South African Airways (SAA), but their restructuring efforts are coming under fire from both government and labor. Cash-strapped SAA was put into business rescue-the rough equivalent of administration-in early December. Business rescue involves external BRPs, in this case Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, taking charge of a company and restructuring to keep it in business. In early February, the joint BRPs announced plans to cut a number of routes to conserve cash. The route cuts, which took effect Feb. 29, include Johannesburg to Abidjan (Cote d' Ivoire) via Accra (Ghana), Entebbe (Uganda), Guangzhou (China), Hong Kong, Livingston (Zambia), Luanda (Angola), Munich (Germany), Ndola (Zambia) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
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