Personally, I would fly SAA - the colours on their on their planes make them a winner :-)

Seriously though, from my response you can see that there is really nothing to choose between them. Seeing you're from the UK, I would go for SAA - kind of an introduction to SA before you actually arrive.

But really, besides the accents of the flight attendants, there is little between them.

Hello Kyoto - we're just down the road from you!

We flew SAA and the one big downside was that we were allowed just 20 kg as opposed to 23 kg. I didn't realise how strictly it would be enforced, and we ended up re-packing at Heathrow, alongside a number of other people! The surplus we had to carry on the plane, as we were allowed two lots of hand luggage. Didn't quite make sense to me, as the plane had exactly the same weight - but as they were charging £35 per extra kilo, I wasn't going to argue!!

I expected SAA to be of a better standard than it was, although we did fly on the new planes.

HI,

Thanks for the thoughts. The 20kg rule is good info, Thanks. I usually travel with my young daughter, so 'borrow' some of her allowance!

Cheers

I agree with previous post. We too had to take items out of luggage and place into cabin bags, even though we were only over by 0.8kg (In front of everyone). Fortunately though because cabin luggage is 8kgs we purposely bought large bags and so was OK.

The leg room I thought was a lot less that I have been used to on B.A. but only flown B.A to teh USA so not sure if they chang for this flight. And also the in-flight entertainment I thought was rubbish, IMO.

We flew SAA for our internatinal and domestic flights and had no major issues (other than Johannesburg delays which can affect all airlines).

This older post may interest you:

tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g312578-i9273-k204…

Because delays, etc... can occur, I always recommend using the same airline for all flights if you are traveling on a tight timed itinerary with multiple destinations....that way, if the airline has a flight delay, they would be responsible for rebooking all of your flights if needed. If you have extra days between cities, then I suppose it will not matter as much.

This has been helpful.. tks again...

>Don't mean to worry you, just make you a well informed traveler! :)<

I think it is gonna be alright.

:>)..

I am not competing with bwanadave for more mis spelled words or posts, but one more.

check the actual airplanes.. like seat guru and see where you wanna sit comfortably.

Thanks for this extra info. How long would be recommended as a sensible time allowance between arriving internationally at JNB and a domestic departure from JNB to George, factoring in immigration, baggage collection, transfer between terminals, and then domestic check in etc? I was thinking 4 hours as I would rather not hang around JNB airport too long.

Interesting question and one I would like to know the answer to aswell! Fly into JoBurg then go to PE and would like to know how quickly you can catch a flight out? Anyone know?

Anyone know how long we should allow for a connection from Jo'burg international arrival to a domestic departure please?