You've got a very strange way of judging an adequate service BlondeBomber.

QANTAS have 5 flights a week 1 originating in Melbourne via Perth to JNB and 4 in Sydney only one of which stops in Harare before JNB. The average flight time for the QANTAS flights is 15 1/2 hours from SYD-JNB.The one flight via HRE takes 18 1/2hrs.

SQ has 6 flights a week 2 of which stop in Mauritius and an average time from SYD/MEL/BSN of about 21 hrs - maybe,but only maybe, from Darwin they have a more convenient service.

As I said in the previous post the TG flight isn't available on the STAR RTW fare as its operated by SA. As for the TG flight being the same length as the QF one - SYD-BKK 9hrs, there's a 1/2 hr connection ( Iwouldn't want to rely on that at BKK where you often have to bus it from plane to terminal),BKK-JNB 10hrs for a total time of
21 1/2 hrs. On the return you have an 8-10 hr wait in BKK. Almost 50% more time from origin to destination is a lot more flying time in my book!

Not forgetting of course (as Sydney people are apt to do) that Australia is more than just Sydney - the comparisons ex-Adelaide and Perth are much more favourable for QF

The only point I would grant you about the SQ and CX services as being superior are that they have a 1st class cabin whereas QF don't to Africa. SAA do they and there frequency/flight duration is similar to QF



[This message has been edited by 3544quebec (edited 09-20-1999).]