Originally Posted by
ajinlondon
I doubt you will get seats on miles to JNB very easily - unless it is in Y. There are some decent net fares from USA -ZRH-JNB on swiss that may be worth while rather than using miles.
I've read on multiple threads here that first and biz class award seats are readily available LHR-CPT or LHR-Jo'Burg, just have to plan in advance.
I never thought about getting to South Africa going west instead of east, maybe I'll look into that. Anything to avoid connections in LHR.