What a fine mess Stanley

I am a little under the weather today, and that never happens as I am made out of liquid metal, but alas I soldier on, acting the slave for the CEO of a large company in South Africa, whom strangely enough I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting? Capitalism…never…
The following story is not about the unfortunate victims of the Air France crash recently; it’s a catastrophe far worse than that…well perhaps stupidity on a a scale the size of, well an aeroplane.

South African Airlines acting chief executive Chris Smyth admitted in Parliament on that the airline may have messed up the cancellation of 15 Airbus A320s and as a result might face a bill as high as 1.5 billion rand.
The planes were ordered in 2002, Smyth told the committee on public enterprises. "We decided we didn't need them," Smyth said. "We thought we had cancelled them, but Airbus are holding us to the original order."
He said that the airline is in negotiation to resolve the issue with the Airbus company. He suggested that it could be resolved within the next two weeks.

What? Chief exec admits in Parliament that the airline may have messed up the cancellation of 15 Airbus A320s and as a result might face a bill as high as 1.5 billion rand. How is this possible? One Airbus I could understand. “Oh I am terribly sorry for that mistake, wont happened again.”
“We thought we had cancelled them,” huh? Thought? Thought, thought he shat himself, but he didn't he just farted.
How will this beleaguered company ever look the industry in the eye again for such an idiotic blunder?

Quote of the day and its kind of translated, if you open your mind and can bend spoons: “Potential is a French word which means you haven’t done a damn thing yet,” similar to thought….
"He thought he stuck his head out of the window, so he went out to have a look".