Passengers board a South African Airways (SAA) plane at the Port Elizabeth International Airport in the Eastern Cape. Picture: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
Building a new airline out of the ashes of SAA may prove more daunting than government thinks.
SAA went into business rescue just as the Covid-19 pandemic was hitting China.
By then, Covid-19 hadn’t been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
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