Iberia quietly drops flights from Madrid to Johannesburg

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• Eric says:

  6 Apr6 April 12:55

  Phoned Iberia re my JNB flight. V helpful chap, David I believe.

  Re-routed on to BA business.

  Only slight pain is no change of origin or destination, so I will now be flying LHR – MAD – LHR – JNB and then reverse on way back!

  Still, happy with the changes overall.

  • marcw says:

    6 Apr6 April 13:49

    yep. It´s doable – but depends how your wife/husband/kids take it.

    • Eric says:

      6 Apr6 April 14:57

      Just the wife this time. Not a great flyer, but happy-ish as we’ll still have a fab holiday in SA. Have previously flown BA business LHR – CPT in old 747, hoping the route to JNB in an A380 will be a better experience. Never flown in an A380 as yet.

    • callum says:

      6 Apr6 April 23:47

      They’re going to South Africa – if rerouting via London is so distressing then they’re going to be in for a big shock when they arrive!

      • David says:

        7 Apr7 April 01:37

        I dunno, it’s quite easy to persuade fellow passengers that you need to change planes in Madrid, without raising too many eyebrows. If they end up back at the airport they’ve just left, there might be some more intensive questioning about your itinerary…

      • callum says:

        7 Apr7 April 01:50

        I’d imagine a very simple “Iberia cancelled the flight so we’ve been rerouted back through London – yes it’s inconvenient and seems weird to be in the same airport twice, but it’s either that or we cancel and spend an extra £1000 each on direct flights” would suffice!

        I still maintain that if you consider that a hardship, Africa probably shouldn’t be the destination for you (unless they were planning to check into a luxury resort and never see the “real” South Africa I guess).

  • Ed says:

    7 Apr7 April 06:59

    Would it not have been worth trying for a LGW -MAD flight on the return necessitating claiming your luggage at LHR. Some unforeseen circumstance could then have resulted in you being unable to make this flight…

    • RIccatti says:

      8 Apr8 April 17:49

      That is a minor thing.

      He should have asked for re-routing on Qatar citing that he is not happy with backtracking.

• Boi says:

  6 Apr6 April 19:23

  OT:
  I hear people talk about tesco mobile offer….I must have missed this when it started. Am I too late to the party?
  Those who have done it and got points….can you let me know what i need to do step by step to do it before closing?
  Thanks in advance

  • Shoestring says:

    6 Apr6 April 19:30

    you haven’t missed that much, not cheap enough to tempt me but might still give it a go now that BJ took out the faff

    • Boi says:

      6 Apr6 April 21:50

      Ha haa. Whats your price tag Harry….ie, what will tempt you?

      Ps, Thanks Alan

• David says:

  10 Apr10 April 11:47

  I would hang up and try again. I had 4 separate bookings and all have been ‘reprotected’ on to flights wit BA via Heathrow by 2 different agents without any issues.

  Hope you get sorted out.

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