Approaching into Johannesburg from the south.










Watch the video of the approach here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DV...rW0dYXoZc9I2ZA


And landing into O.R. Tambo International Rwy03R.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOh6...rW0dYXoZc9I2ZA


Exiting the runway.




Quite a long taxi to the gate.




Welcome to SAA land! SAA A340 parked at the remote stand.




Parked beside another SAA A340.




And that concludes the first sector of the flight to Cape Town, and frankly speaking, other than the very empty flight which enabled me to get comfortable on 3 seats, there was absolute nothing I can compliment on regarding the inflight service nor the catering on this flight. In fact, with the dismal catering and un-SQish service, I can easily rank this flight as one of the worst, if not the worst, long-haul flight I have flown in on any airline (even my Jetstar long-haul flight experience from SIN-AKL with similar flight time 2 years back was a way much better experience with good pre-purchased meals and great service). Heck, my mum was also still complaining about the food served onboard 1 week after the flight!


At Johannesburg, all JNB bound passengers disembarked, with Cape Town bound passengers like us having to stay onboard while the plane was serviced and the set was crew was changed. Agents also came onboard to verify our CPT bound boarding passes and ticked off a list of manifest.

Dnata catering for SQ here in JNB.




Our plane being serviced.




The left-over CPT bound pax stretching their legs during the stopover. It was a very empty flight up to CPT.




The new set of crew who joined us at JNB for their shuttle run to CPT was a stark contrast from the previous crew! They exhibited enthusiasm and warmth, sending very positive vibes to us passengers. Even just after taking over of duties during servicing of the plane, some of the stewardesses started proactively offering passengers water after a couple of passengers asked for some, and even interacted a bit with the pax on their trip so far. Yes, that is the SQ service that I have known of, and I knew that even if the catering was again bad, at least the service would make up for it.

Soon our neighbouring A340 was gone, and I spotted an ArikAir parked further beside.