Bruce Whitfield Live from Davos. Richard Quest on SA, SAA. Could well be Kenya/KQ.
"The amount of money the SA government has to put into SAA is simply staggering. Unless there is a proper restructuring, meaning government hands-off, let an airline person run the airline, you must ask the question why not just shut it down.
If you look at what Malaysia's options are at the moment, similarly... at the end of the day for SAA to become profitable is going to require the most drastic restructuring and even then it might not.
Sure it's worth having a go. But I'm telling you that will never happen, the government won't keep its hands off it. Governments cannot stop interfering in airlines, they've done it for decades and will continue. Let somebody else come in and run the airline. Until then you'll just have to accept the government will carry on paying money. But please don't try and pretend you're restructuring when you're moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic."
— Richard Quest, CNN business editor