Originally Posted by
runfit
Sorry to post this in here

, but I just booked a trip for a friend from JNB for 80k with Continental. Wide open availability too. If you open both continental and united credit cards, you can merge them and get close. You can even do one-ways and see if you have a really nice friend that will help you out with another one-way. Just as another option...
Thanks. I've also noticed that JNB-US is $3300 in M class vs. US-JNB is $4K+ in M class. Ugh.