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Lagos - Murtala Muhammed Airport and SAA
I travelled, comfortably enough, to Lagos this week, with BA. I was
upgraded to Business Class from Premium Economy and didn't notice that much of a difference - you are in a little pig-pen, it's true, either opening onto an aisle or next to somebody else, but the whole experience doesn't seem to me much different from that in Premium Economy. The service is OK, but not much better - we were delayed about an hour before taking off [apparently some people had to be 'removed'], so I was offered a second drink, the air steward only had water or orange juice, so, after disturbing me to ask, he offered a second glass of champagne, I said, yes, thank you, and heard no more of it - he forgot, or they ran out, or something. To my mind that's pretty crap service for Business Class! Also their little bag of stuff is pathetic - Emirates, in Business class, give you a pukka bag, with good quality and useful things in it - BA give you a tiny cloth bag with a toothbrush, earplugs and some tiny vials of useless cream ('hand and nail', I ask you, what man needs 'nail cream' and what does it do for you?) made by some company called 'Elemis' - I'd heard of the company that made the Emirates stuff. Anyway, that wasn't really my questions. I'll be flying back to Cape Town on SAA [I would have chosen any other airline, if there was one, bit it was the only option]. I've been in touch with them by e-mail [their seat selection software works for the JNB - CPT leg, but can't cope with the map for a 744, so you can't choose a seat for the LOS - JNB leg] and get some short, coy replies. I've been trying to find out whether they have an airline lounge at Lagos airport. It's important because my flight is at ten at night. With no lounge, I'd rather have a meal in a restaurant and turn up just before the flight [not ideal with the Lagos traffic], with a lounge, I'd be happy to turn up early and relax there. I find various oblique references to Lagos and lounges - Virgin have a good one, apparently - but nothing about SAA actually having on or not. Their reply to me said, yes, I was entitled to use business class lounges - which doesn't answer the question of whether there actually is one! Anybody been on that route and know? |
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Lagos - Murtala Muhammed Airport and SAA
On Nov 18, 7:40*pm, "Peter H.M. Brooks"
wrote: I travelled, comfortably enough, to Lagos this week, with BA. I was upgraded to Business Class from Premium Economy and didn't notice that much of a difference - you are in a little pig-pen, it's true, either opening onto an aisle or next to somebody else, but the whole experience doesn't seem to me much different from that in Premium Economy. The service is OK, but not much better - we were delayed about an hour before taking off [apparently some people had to be 'removed'], so I was offered a second drink, the air steward only had water or orange juice, so, after disturbing me to ask, he offered a second glass of champagne, I said, yes, thank you, and heard no more of it - he forgot, or they ran out, or something. To my mind that's pretty crap service for Business Class! Also their little bag of stuff is pathetic - Emirates, in Business class, give you a pukka bag, with good quality and useful things in it - BA give you a tiny cloth bag with a toothbrush, earplugs and some tiny vials of useless cream ('hand and nail', I ask you, what man needs 'nail cream' and what does it do for you?) made by some company called 'Elemis' - I'd heard of the company that made the Emirates stuff. Anyway, that wasn't really my questions. I'll be flying back to Cape Town on SAA [I would have chosen any other airline, if there was one, bit it was the only option]. I've been in touch with them by e-mail [their seat selection software works for the JNB - CPT leg, but can't cope with the map for a 744, so you can't choose a seat for the LOS - JNB leg] and get some short, coy replies. I've been trying to find out whether they have an airline lounge at Lagos airport. It's important because my flight is at ten at night. With no lounge, I'd rather have a meal in a restaurant and turn up just before the flight [not ideal with the Lagos traffic], with a lounge, I'd be happy to turn up early and relax there. I find various oblique references to Lagos and lounges - Virgin have a good one, apparently - but nothing about SAA actually having on or not. Their reply to me said, yes, I was entitled to use business class lounges - which doesn't answer the question of whether there actually is one! Anybody been on that route and know? I've managed to find an answer to this, so, here it is, in case anybody else wishes to find out some day... There are both first and business class lounges at Lagos airport, both said to be quite good. The funny thing was that South African Airways was quite unable to find this out. They sent me two telephone numbers to try to call SAA locally in Lagos, but one didn't work and the other was not answered. I found this out by contacting somebody who had complained about SAA on the site www.hellopeter.com and mentioned the Lagos First Class Lounge. A very roundabout way of discovering something that ought to be fairly simple.... |
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Lagos - Murtala Muhammed Airport and SAA
I don't remember the airport much I'm afraid, so I have no defiite
info. However, SAA is part of Star Alliance, so if there is a Star Alliance lounge, you'll be able to use the lounge. Have a look at other Star Alliance airlines websites, they may have better information. Cheers, Marc |
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