Another good reason not to fly SAA from next year onwards between JHB -LOS. SAA's schedule as from January 2006 as follows:
-SA058 DAYS -2--5—JNB 12:30 ABJ 17:30
ABJ 18:30 LOS 21:05
-SA059 DAYS -2--5—LOS 22:15 ABJ 22:15
ABJ 23:30 JNB 08:30+1
-SA060 DAYS -3---7 JNB 14:55 LOS 19:50
-SA061 DAYS -3---7 LOS 21:20 ACC 21:30
ACC 22:30 JNB 06:30+1
Thus from next year SAA have 1 direct flight between LOS - JHB. All the other flights will be with stop overs via Abijan in the Ivory Coast and Accra in Ghana.
Traditionally the SAA flights between JHB-LOS were always fully booked.
Perhaps they know they will be losing lots of customers with Virgin Nigeria also on the direct route and are now trying to fill seats, via Accra and Abijan.
I don’t think so! Who wants to pay more and then have to do a stop over in another African country. All you do is increase the risks of something going wrong and getting stuck where you don’t want to be...
If they just improved their service and got rid of the useless" lets do you a favour by serving you" hosties, their seats would be full anyway.
But I suppose it is just another SAA "brainwave" and just another simple way of irritating and frustrating their passengers.
In actual fact, it seems that SAA is practically begging customers to fly the direct route between JHB - LOS and basically offering their customers to Virgin Nigeria. Where is the business sense in that?
Maybe I am stupid. Am I missing something here?
