Club Experience in South Africa
Dec 20, 2018, 2:27 am
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Club Experience in South Africa
I've spoken to a few friends still living in South Africa(Im South African, living in the UK) regarding the internal Club travel. All have confirmed the product to be unreliable at best, stating there are often downgrade or removal of Club from flights all together.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
Dec 20, 2018, 2:44 am
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I've spoken to a few friends still living in South Africa(Im South African, living in the UK) regarding the internal Club travel. All have confirmed the product to be unreliable at best, stating there are often downgrade or removal of Club from flights all together.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
Dec 20, 2018, 3:55 am
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I have had no experience of unreliability. Obviously if you book straight with Comair (as opposed to BA) you need to be careful not to book one of the Kulula flights as those don't have C but I've never had a substitution or downgrade in my few experiences and found the old fashioned service good for the distance (though sitting arrangement can be cramped on full flights).
Dec 20, 2018, 4:03 am
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I've spoken to a few friends still living in South Africa(Im South African, living in the UK) regarding the internal Club travel. All have confirmed the product to be unreliable at best, stating there are often downgrade or removal of Club from flights all together.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm?
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm?
Dec 20, 2018, 4:06 am
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I've spoken to a few friends still living in South Africa(Im South African, living in the UK) regarding the internal Club travel. All have confirmed the product to be unreliable at best, stating there are often downgrade or removal of Club from flights all together.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
Could anyone who uses the product often please confirm? Ill be heading back to CPT in a few months and traveling internally a fair bit.
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Dec 20, 2018, 4:10 am
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That's the second reference to 'maturer' crews on Comair that I've seen. I only do 2-4 sectors in a typical year but it's not been my experience.
I love the Comair product - in J or Y it's streets ahead of BA main.
In terms of reliability, my SA colleague is based in CPT and flies internationally a lot, usually from JNB. I've never heard him moan about downgrades so I wouldn't think it's that endemic.
I love the Comair product - in J or Y it's streets ahead of BA main.
In terms of reliability, my SA colleague is based in CPT and flies internationally a lot, usually from JNB. I've never heard him moan about downgrades so I wouldn't think it's that endemic.