DAILY FLIGHTS FROM ATLANTA TO JOHANNESBURG, NO STOPS IN CAPETOWN.



Effective February 1st, 2005 our Atlanta schedule will change. Our new Atlanta schedule will be as follows:

Atlanta Schedule effective February 1, 2005





Gateway Flight #

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ATL SA 210 ATL/SID 10:30 22:25 A346 Daily

SID/JNB 23:25 10:15 A346



RETURN FLIGHT TO ATLANTA



ATL SA 209 JNB/SID 19:40 2:35 A346 Daily

SID/ATL 3:35 8:20 A346



For all passengers currently ticketed and confirmed on the Cape Town extensions, they will be re-accommodated on alternate domestic flights.



Please note that as of February 1st, 2005, all passengers must collect their bags and clear customs in Johannesburg.

This has nothing to do with transit to international onward destinations - only domestic flights -

Sorry, but I wont fly that route again. Not stopping in capetown saves an hour and a half of sitting on the tarmac but you still have to stop at Ilse de Sol. That takes an hour and a half of sitting on the tarmac as well. I am finding I can go through europe for about the same price. It breaks the flight into two 8 hour segments or a 7 and 9 depending on what route you take. You can have a long layover or as short as an hour and a half to 2 hours. The planes are more comfortable than the airbus. The service is better as well.

I had heard that fkights out of Atlanta were soon to be discontinued altogether due to SAA changing alliance partners.If this is true ,when does it take place.Looking to fly over in Sept 2005,am I likely to be affected .

Like eyedoc, I'm also looking at Sept 2005 so I would also be very interested in knowing if SAA will continue to fly out of Atlanta or not.

-Bob F.

Per SAA they will be flying out of Atlanta for 2005. I am also flying out of Atlanta during September for a Zim hunt.

I spoke with someone last week, who was going to be flying out of Detroit to Spain. They had a scheduled a day to sight see then fly direct to Jo'brg. As I remember the fares were very resonable.
FYI.

This past September I flew KLM/Northwest from Detroit to Amsterdam (8hrs.)had a 90 min. layover then 9 1/2 hours to Johannisburg. Unfortunately, there was an overnight layover in Joburg before going on to Harare. Too bad you can't fly directly into Harare like in the past, flying BA out of London. Going this way, however, was so much less taxing than that ball buster flight between Atlanta and Joburg.

Geronimo

I have a friend thats flying in july to joberg from california. He is 6'5" and I recomended going through europe on a boeing. That airbus busted my butt this year and unless they change the seating they saw the last of this puppy.

Guys,

I know a lot of folks don't want to hear it but flying through London is not a big deal. BA's 747 and DC 10 are very comfortable and I think the BA service is excellent.

I have not detected any anti gun attitude from BA on any of the 6 flights I've flown with them. Sometimes in the States the counter people are INITIALLY confused on what to do with guns but you run into that in every airport with every airline. Actually on this last trip we had a BA guy who specifically handled our guns on both ends and our original check in and our transit through customs in the States was the smoothest ever.

As others have said breaking the flight up into two 8-9 hour segments really makes the flight more tolerable. What I find is that I'm not really jet lagged because the last leg of the trip is basically straight down London-JIA and you don't change time jones. If you can sleep on that leg you'll be ready to Rock when you arrive JIA.

Regards,

Mark