South African Airways serves more than 700 destinations throughout the world. Carries more than 6.5 million passengers each year and serves 34 cities in 26 countries on six continents.

20% of their domestic travellers fly more than one trip per month on average. They fly more than 20 domestic routes, with 20 flights a day between Johannesburg and Cape Town.

It employs close to 12 000 people worldwide, including 3 600 at SAA Technical. Staff include about 2 800 flight attendants and more than 800 pilots. To develop high calibre female manag¬ers to feed SAA's executive leadership, we run a programme called 'Women in Aviation'. 77% of our leadership is black with a 56:44 male to female ratio. At senior management level. 44% are black with 41 % of middle management and 55% non-management staff are black.