An Onion to SAA and a big-up to Heinrich
Well, well, well ... South African Airways have really disappointed. I officially give them an Onion Award! I specifically chose to book a non-stop flight from Cape Town to London, in September, outward bound for my swim attempt.
I specifically chose a flight and carrier that offered me the best possibility to rest, reduce delays, carry my excess luggage with minimum airport delays (and threats of theft) and no stop-overs. My early September,specifically selected flight was happily booked and paid for on SAA quite a while ago.
Now unfortunately South African Airways has decided to cut that route from mid-August and transferred my flight to an SAA option via Johannesburg.
To SAA:
- You have seriously disappointed me
- I could have booked with another airline if I had known you would change this
- You could have first stopped taking bookings from a certain date and then discontinued this service from that date onwards
- You have renegaded on an agreement we made (in good faith from my side) on completion of the purchase of the original ticket
- Your excuses you gave during our follow-up correspondence are, as expected, self-centred and definitely not client sympathetic
On a happier note ... the training is going well! I am really enjoying the swimming, increased mileage, better swim performance and generally feeling stronger in the water.
The next two months will see us doing much more cold water training - no problem at all in finding these cold water bodies ... with winter weather setting in and all water features clocking in at about 13 to 15 degrees Celsius at the moment. The aim is to complete several 6 hour cold water swims in the next two months.
The seas have also gotten noticeably larger, and rougher. Sunday saw us swimming in Camps Bay ... well ... that was not too pleasant! The swell was huge and those waves rough, rough, rough. Many thanks to Heinrich who guided and spoke me through the approach to land after having a minor panic attack while floating in the big swell behind those nasty waves.
Happy swimming!!
