I know many of you have flown to JNB - come to that, so have I. In fact my first VS flight was to that destination, albeit in economy. However at that stage - and all other stages my final destination was JNB but this time I need to go on to Durban
I talked to the Premier Team this afternoon. The girl, I spoke to, while good enough wasn't really up to the highest standards I have come to expect from the Premier Team. For example, she told me that VS do not fly to Cape Town on Fridays even though I had the VS website in front of me which said they did. Equally she told me there were no Z fares on the date I wanted to travel while the website told me there were. I later found that I had drawn the short straw and she was due off duty in ten minutes time and was off for the weekend. The last thing she wanted was someone with a complicated itinerary - and if she but knew it I had a couple of queries around other booked flights but decided that discretion was the better part of valour and left them to some other date.
What I was finding was that the fare that was being quoted to DUR was £1000 more than the published Z fare to JNB and if you convert that to euros, well..... It transpired that when quoting the onward fare the Z morphed into a D fare which is of no earthly use to me and £1000 seems excessive for two trips lasting about one hour and which probably cost one tenth of that amount. The upshot is that I have a Z fare on hold till 9pm tomorrow, Saturday while I see if I can book flights myself on SAA. I have looked on the SAA website and there are plenty of choices out of JNB (but not so many out of CPT - I preferred the departure time of the CPT flight) albeit not in the lowest bucket but at prices that make business class seem attractive [:w]
My question is how much time should I leave between arrival in JNB and departure to DUR if my luggage is not thru-checked? What time does check-in open at JNB and what time does the Clubhouse open so that I can schedule my flight from DUR?
Thanks in advance for your replies
I talked to the Premier Team this afternoon. The girl, I spoke to, while good enough wasn't really up to the highest standards I have come to expect from the Premier Team. For example, she told me that VS do not fly to Cape Town on Fridays even though I had the VS website in front of me which said they did. Equally she told me there were no Z fares on the date I wanted to travel while the website told me there were. I later found that I had drawn the short straw and she was due off duty in ten minutes time and was off for the weekend. The last thing she wanted was someone with a complicated itinerary - and if she but knew it I had a couple of queries around other booked flights but decided that discretion was the better part of valour and left them to some other date.
What I was finding was that the fare that was being quoted to DUR was £1000 more than the published Z fare to JNB and if you convert that to euros, well..... It transpired that when quoting the onward fare the Z morphed into a D fare which is of no earthly use to me and £1000 seems excessive for two trips lasting about one hour and which probably cost one tenth of that amount. The upshot is that I have a Z fare on hold till 9pm tomorrow, Saturday while I see if I can book flights myself on SAA. I have looked on the SAA website and there are plenty of choices out of JNB (but not so many out of CPT - I preferred the departure time of the CPT flight) albeit not in the lowest bucket but at prices that make business class seem attractive [:w]
My question is how much time should I leave between arrival in JNB and departure to DUR if my luggage is not thru-checked? What time does check-in open at JNB and what time does the Clubhouse open so that I can schedule my flight from DUR?
Thanks in advance for your replies
