Yep it was comical what went on. It was a catalogue of screw ups...

1. They had us fly from ABZ - CDG as Regional were not on strike - they must have known our connection was a doubt at best
2. tried to make us sleep on the CDG floor...plat card holders with business tickets. We put up a fight and solved that
3. Upon cancelling the next days flight made sure we left the lounge to stand in a queue for 7 hours to get rebookeded to LAD
4. Found my collegues suitcases, lost mine
5. Didn't actually rebook us to LAD at all, just booking us on SN to Brussels and waitlisting us. Presumably so they could go sorry, yer in Brussels now. Didn;t work, we stayed put.
6. Rebooked us again 3 days later (all that was available) on BA/SAA and we have to find out own hotel for those three days. To be fair, they paid in full - and for my new wardrobe out of Galleries Lafayette.
7. Arrive in JNB to find my suitcase in the AF office at the airport. it got there before me. Brilliant!

It really was a mess......