The Committee thanked SAX for an unqualified audit report on their financial statements. The Committee noted that SAX ran a very "lean and mean" business operation, which was good because an entity needed to be lean in the current economic climate, and it had to be mean in such a competitive environment. The Committee was, however, concerned with SAX's employee profile. The figures provided were inaccurate and did not provide figures for both Indian and Coloured employees. The Committee asked SAX to disaggregate the figures and send them to the Committee within two weeks. The Committee wanted clarity on the once-off amount of R163 million that was included in the airline's R250 million net profit amount. The amount of R163 million was the total amount for assets which had been treated as inventory at first, but was subsequently reclassified as assets and included in the net profit.