Flying SAA

22 May 2005

Up at 4am this morning to catch the SAA flight I selected on flysaa.com. I walk up to the South African Airways check-in desk, hand over my ID, and get asked where and when I'm going. 6am, Durban. Sir, are you sure? Yes, of course I am. Sir, there's no flight at 6am, could you perhaps be flying another airline. No, I'm 100% sure. Turns out flysaa.com booked me on a flight that didn't exist. Got put on a later flight on both outgoing and incoming, and was lacking vegetarian options on my outgoing flight due to their screwup.

2 old-style comments

  1. Nick — May 23, 2005 at 09:17 AM.

    Do you really need to eat on a 2 hour flight?

  2. Neil Blakey-Milner — May 23, 2005 at 09:59 AM.

    True, I didn't need to eat (after all, I ended up not doing so and I'm still alive). But after waking up at 4am and skipping breakfast to get to the airport on time and having to deal with the fact that the flight I got up so early to catch simply not existing despite having a ticket that says I'm on it, it would have been refreshing that the expectation that I would get the breakfast I chose on the plane would be realised. It's a service thing - nothing to do with need.
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