{"id":29,"date":"2022-07-09T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/?p=29"},"modified":"2024-03-23T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T10:44:29","slug":"best-business-class-to-serve-sa-from-eu-and-most-relevant-miles-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/best-business-class-to-serve-sa-from-eu-and-most-relevant-miles-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Best business class to serve SA from EU and most relevant miles program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>I am due to travel to South Africa in two weeks, I know it\u2019s a bit of a last minute decision and it\u2019s going to be expensive. I saw that Air France, KLM and BA have direct flights. I will have to travel to one of the main EU location anyway as there are no direct flights where I am based. I was wondering if anyone had experience flying to that region and what the best business class airline is on that route? Flights are going to be super expensive (6-10k) so I\u2019d like to know what\u2019s the best way for me to accumulate miles?<\/p>\n<p>I have several questions&#8230;i have started reading the forum but also would like some input<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We are active, early sixties from US &#8211; WI<\/p>\n<p>-Price range can be all over the place&#8230;don&#8217;t mind a splurge here and there and we also like rustic, albeit private baths and clean.<\/p>\n<p>1. Should I plan our own trip with assistance from forum and using a guided tour for the Kroger Park<\/p>\n<p>or go with a tour company such as Go Ahead, etc. Usually we travel independently but since this is brand new territory for us, I am wondering how easy it is to put together our own trip<\/p>\n<p>4. Looks like the\u00a0flights\u00a0from the US are really really long, do most people spend an overnight in Europe on the way to SA?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks, I am due to travel to South Africa in two weeks, I know it\u2019s a bit of a last minute decision and it\u2019s going to be expensive. I saw that Air France, KLM and BA have direct flights. I will have to travel to one of the main EU location anyway as there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-traffic-control.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}