Editing South African Airways (section)

===Anti-competitive practices===
On 5 June 2007, it was announced that SAA paid [[South African rand|R]]55&nbsp;million to the Competition Commission of South Africa because of anti-competitive behaviour such as [[price fixing]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 2006 |title=Another mega fine for SAA |publisher=Moneyweb.co.za |url=http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/quotes/page305985?oid=55417&sn=Daily+news+detail&pid=295023 |access-date=29 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2007 |title=SAA pays competition penalty |publisher=Southafrica.info |url=http://www.southafrica.info/doing_business/businesstoday/businessnews/937115.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=29 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919191411/http://www.southafrica.info/doing_business/businesstoday/businessnews/937115.htm |archive-date=19 September 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> This fine was in addition to a R45&nbsp;million fine paid by SAA on 31 May 2006 as a penalty for SAA's attempts to prevent travel agents from dealing with rival air carriers.<ref>{{cite web |date=5 June 2007 |title=SAA pays competition fine |url=http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_South%20Africa&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20070605160330201C894748 |publisher=iol.co.za}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

"Kulula has once again called on government to call it a day and keep its promise...that South African taxpayers will stop filling the begging bowl for ailing state-owned businesses". Many other companies like [[Flitestar]], SunAir and [[Nationwide Airlines (South Africa)|Nationwide]] had failed because they could not compete with state-funded SAA. "State re-nationalisation of the industry will continue to be destructive to free and fair competition". The company said it was "bizarre" that the proceeds of its [[income tax]], fuel taxes, VAT, [[import duties]] and other government levies then were paid over to a state-owned competitor.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 July 2008 |title=Kulula bemoans SAA government bailouts |publisher=IOL News |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kulula-bemoans-saa-government-bailouts-1.408795 |access-date=22 December 2010 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023002309/http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kulula-bemoans-saa-government-bailouts-1.408795 |url-status=live }}</ref>