John,

Thanks for the info about the advance purchase - good news !

It's not that we want to avoid HKG, just that there's no way of getting from SWP back to LHR without touching (and buying) either Asia or Africa (I don't think). Given that we have to do one or the other, we're just currently wondering about HKG and maybe DPS) for city and beach, or JNB/CPT for safari.... oh decisions, decisions...