SA Airways board chairman Dudu Myeni has agreed to explain to parliament within seven days why she should not be fired. During a joint sitting of the parliamentary portfolio committees on finance and on public enterprises yesterday, Myeni was hounded by the DA's David Maynier and the EFF's Floyd Shivambu.Six weeks ago Myeni, her board and senior SAA managers were sent a list of questions by the portfolio committee on finance.They answered all the questions yesterday - except one, posed by Maynier, who asked why Myeni should not be fired.When Maynier put the question again yesterday, Myeni claimed not to have received it six weeks ago.But committee chairman and senior ANC MP Yunus Carrim proved to her that the question had been sent together with the others.Myeni then said she needed another seven days to respond.Maynier asked why should she be given more time in which to respond after being given six weeks. Carrim agreed with him.Myeni has been told by Shivambu that she owes her position to her close relationship with President Jacob Zuma.The parlous state of SAA was on clear display yesterday.Its pilots passed a vote of no confidence in Myeni and might strike soon. Cabin crews and technicians have joined the fray, expressing unhappiness about working conditions and alleging racism.The airline is in big financial difficulties. It has asked for another bailout, of R5-billion, from the Treasury, has not been able to table its 2014-2015 annual report and has this week appointed yet another acting chief executive.The airline admitted that its flights between Johannesburg and Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, would not be profitable within the next five years.Carrim gave SAA until mid-January to table its annual report and until December 15 to give the committee an update on its progress in implementing its latest turnaround plan...