CPT or JNB?
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CPT or JNB?
I am going to CPT and have a flight through JNB right now from IST. What would be the better flying experience since the CPT flies the old A340? I picked to go through JNB because it has the newer A330 and I don't mind transiting through JNB for short domestic hop. Would it be worth maybe changing straight through to CPT? I know there are usually much less full to CPT as well so I am thinking the cabin could be emptier as well. If there are plenty of CPT seats then how likely is TK be willing to change it to the CPT flight on a business award ticket? Can the folks at the lounge assist with that?
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Changing at JNB to a domestic flight is no picnic. Been there, done that Expect to collect luggage, immigration, recheck luggage, long security lines and a at best mediocre SAA domestic lounge (though I believe this has recently been renovated), assuming you are connecting to SAA.
Unless you have a fully flexible full fare ticket I doubt you can get IST-JNB-CPT easily changed to IST-CPT. If you are consider this I would use the ticket counter and not the lounge.
Unless you have a fully flexible full fare ticket I doubt you can get IST-JNB-CPT easily changed to IST-CPT. If you are consider this I would use the ticket counter and not the lounge.
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Changing at JNB to a domestic flight is no picnic. Been there, done that Expect to collect luggage, immigration, recheck luggage, long security lines and a at best mediocre SAA domestic lounge (though I believe this has recently been renovated), assuming you are connecting to SAA.
Unless you have a fully flexible full fare ticket I doubt you can get IST-JNB-CPT easily changed to IST-CPT. If you are consider this I would use the ticket counter and not the lounge.
Unless you have a fully flexible full fare ticket I doubt you can get IST-JNB-CPT easily changed to IST-CPT. If you are consider this I would use the ticket counter and not the lounge.
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It is AVOD, but not NextGen. The seats are not fully flat, but I managed to sleep on them. My last time on A340 was in mid-2014 and (at least then) the A340's were reasonably well maintained.
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Well I have just been on a TK A340 (albeit doing a short domestic haul). The AVOD was extremely poor, the screen resolution was all fuzzy. Not sure I would like that on a 10 hour flight. The aircraft really has seen better days.