Comair grounded – need advice

[celia@hicks-green.com]

We are independently booked on a multi-base holiday departing LHR > CPT 22.3.22, CPT > DUR 28.3.22, DUR > JNB 30.3.22, JNB > Maun 30.3.22, Maun > JNB 3.4.22, JNB > LHR 3 4.22. It is celebration for our 50th wedding anniversary to it is quite important to get it right. Does anyone have any views on whether we should wait to see if charter flights are laid on to get to DUR and from DUR to JNB for our safari in Botswana, or if we should cancel the Comair flights, do something else instead of Durban, and book SAA direct from CPT to Maun on 30.3.22.
We are booked on BA/Comair (except for the JNB > Maun > JNB sector) on Avios. Only one Comair flight was available on Avios so we paid for the other.
Very grateful for any experience or knowledge that we do not have.

[SamG]

I personally think they’ll be back in the air by then, I’d give it a couple of days. If there are any backup flights that could be cancelled with low/no penality you could book those

Out of interest – why are you going to Durban & for such a short period? If there isn’t a particular reason then I’d skip it from your plans if you do end up re-arranging