He said that volumes on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were quite low suggesting that investors were staying on the sidelines to see where inflation was headed.
The rand was 1.2pc weaker at 13.7475 per dollar, moving further from a 28-month high hit last week.
Administrator Siviwe Dongwana told a creditor meeting that the plan had been approved by 86% of voting interests.
The rescue plan envisages scaling back the state-owned airline's fleet and shedding jobs but requires the government to find at least 10 billion rand of new funds for it to work.
The administrators published a restructuring plan for the struggling state-owned airline last month after repeated delays and months of wrangling with the government and trade unions.
It said four unions - NTM, SATAWU, AUSA and Solidarity - and some non-unionised SAA staff were ready to sign voluntary severance packages if creditors approve the plan on July 14.
Airlink was a franchisee of state-owned SAA for over two decades, an arrangement that allowed SAA to sell tickets and fly passengers on Airlink flights.
SAA went into a form of bankruptcy protection in December and since then state-appointed administr