Transfer at JHB

Exchanged $200 at the airport, which is all I had. Not a great rate, 13.96 vs. 14.71, plus 5% commission. The guide book said it’s better to have South Africa Rand than Namibia dollar. Rand is accepted in Namibia but it’s not vise versa. So by calculation I am worse off by about $30.

JHB allowed passengers to go to international terminal directly, but everyone still needed to go through an immigration to get the passport stamped, plus a security check point later. Both were pretty quick.

Flying to Windhoek takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes. It’s a full flight. I’m sure the strike of SAA sent a lot of customers to Namibia Airline.

I was supposed to be able to use the lounge by my Jade card but got denied. It sucked.

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