As of April 30 Iberia will suspend its thrice-weekly return flights between Madrid and Johannesburg. The airline made the decision owing to the sharp rise in fuel prices and the continuing world economic crisis. Advice for Customers:
• Customers holding tickets issued to travel from 1st May 12 onwards will be rebooked via LON with BA on an involuntary reroute basis in the following manner:
• Customers with routings between Spain and South Africa will be rebooked by IB via LON on IB marketed flights operated by BA and tickets can be reissued by the agencies.
• Customers travelling between South Africa & North, Central or South America will also be rebooked by IB via LON on IB marketed flights operated by BA and once again tickets can be reissued by the agencies.
Very annoyed at this decision..anyone wanting to travel to Portugal or Spain now has to go a longer way to reach these countries and pay double also..!!
It seems that no Airline wants to operate direct flights from South Africa to these countries. Not many options now, I have checked today for flights and either have to go to London ,Paris,Germany or Dubai to get to Portugal.
Last December 2011 I paid R.7000.00 to fly to Lisbon via Madrid on Iberia and now have to pay over R.21000 to get to Portugal..!!