Originally Posted by
danielm
I see! Thank you for the clarification. I will avoid the escalator at all costs. Very, very glad to learn I won't have to go anywhere near the regular immigration line. Am doing this in a few hours! BTW, do I need a hard printout of my itinerary on SA, or will phone/verbal explanation do?
I haven't done transit immigration for a few months, so can't recall - I normally travel with a hardcopy of my itin anyway, but I don't think that the transit immigration requires it. After that, there are normal checkin desks, who certainly won't need hardcopy to give you a BP.