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Ethiopian Airline, an enjoyable experience.
in the panning of this most recent trip, to
investigate if the option of taking one of the
Cunard liner’s World Cruise legs from Cape
Town to Southampton would work for our
northward migration. Comfortable though the
Union Castle ships were, this would certainly
have been a step up in class. Sadly the dates
simply would not fit with my schedule….ah well,
next time perhaps!
In part 1 of this feature, published earlier in the
year in DGT, we looked at the attractions of a
southwards migration to warmer climes with
the onset of a northern hemisphere winter. I
must confess that in researching this piece, my
own compass was pointed north on the first
leg of the trip so as to coincide with the onset
of the winter in southern Africa.
The journey to our final destination, in Brittany
France, had to be made via London due to
business commitments and on this route we
are quite spoiled for choice, with a number
of airlines offering direct flights to London.
These include South African Airways, Virgin
Atlantic and British Airways, whose service
now also includes a direct flight ex UK to King
Shaka Airport near Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
A number of Middle Eastern airlines fly via
their hubs to service the routes into the UK
and Europe, as do most of the major European
airlines including Air France, Lufthansa and
Alitalia.
Having previously flown on 36 airlines, of
varying shapes, sizes and origin over the years, I
decided, for this trip, to try another of Africa’s
carriers in the shape of Ethiopian Airlines.
A number of criteria were used to determine
this option as the final choice; luggage
allowance which was either 64 or 72 Kg per
passenger, depending on the number of pieces
of luggage - we had need of a ‘hefty’ amount
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