Travelling By Air – UK To South Africa

There are quite a number of options for flight from UK to South Africa. For one you have several options when it comes to choosing the place of departure. You will find flights to South Africa at the following airports London (LON), London Heathrow (LHR), Glasgow (GLA), Manchester (MAN), Newcastle (NCL) or Birmingham (BHX) airport.

Then you also have a variety of options on which airport you will be landing at in South Africa. There are about 10 airports there but there are only 3 international airports i.e. the OR Tambo International airport in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban international airports. Unless you definitely have an interest in the other cities then OR Tambo airport is good arrival point.

In fact most of the flights that eventually get to Durban or Cape Town from UK make a stop at Johannesburg first.

London (LON), UK to Johannesburg, South Africa

There are six airlines that are operating on this route. That is, Swiss air, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France, Etihad Airways and the South Africa airways. If you are looking for non-stop flights UK to South Africa then consider the latter.

This gives it the shortest flight time of bout 11 hours and 35 minutes. The South African airways depart from London at 18:00 and gets to Johannesburg at 07:25 the following day.

If you are looking into leaving early in the morning then consider Air France. It will leave for South Africa at 06.40 hrs and go via Paris De Gaulle. It gets there at 09:00 and lives for South Africa at 10:30 and gets to Johannesburg at 22:00.for further details about how you make your travel arrangements and how to book your ticket visit:

• What Are All The Airlines That Fly Into South Africa
• Cape Town To Port Elizabeth
• Flight From Johannesburg To Bloemfontein

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Accessible Travel For Disabled People

While accessible travel for the disabled is mandated by law, in many cases what qualifies as “accessible” is woefully under equipped. Often something as simple as a night out to eat can be a huge challenge for those in wheelchairs or who otherwise need assistance, let alone trying to travel through busy airports or train stations.

Obviously, the world is set up to cater to the able bodied individuals. The mandates that require accessibility by all persons are just not specific enough and can leave an individual on a quest for finding an elevator or an access ramp that is conveniently located. Some access ramps are ill constructed to allow for easy access by those in wheelchairs as the quality and design of the ramp makes it very difficult for locomotion under one’s own power.

Often the biggest difficulty facing those who need assistance when traveling is education. Airports and other forms of public transportation need better education amongst the staff when providing assistance to the disabled.

For instance, airports often tend to wait until disembarking to call for a wheelchair. The individual must wait while everyone disembarks and often wait even longer for the personnel to show up with a wheelchair. When there is little time between connecting flights due to late take offs and overcrowded runways the need for a wheelchair often means missing the flight.

Instead of sticking those in need of assistance aside to chronically wait for any special help they may need, we need to simply make accessible travel much more realistically accessible. We need to stop hiding elevators at the far corners of the buildings and start recognizing that the disabled have regular needs as well.

Accessible travel means any cab should be able to pick up the disabled rather than calling a specially equipped van to the scene just because the rider has a wheelchair. Requiring those with special needs to wait for the simple things is not only insulting, but it can in fact be dangerous.

The constant waiting game that those with disabilities face is often played alone or in areas where safety is questionable. Airport personnel, train employees, or even cab companies have no problem putting the disabled aside to wait for the necessary assistance but they certainly give little regard for the safety of the individual while they are waiting. I guess the faster they can tuck us away and keep up out of sight the more comfortable everyone else gets to feel, so that has become the priority when it comes to accessible travel.