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Margot S

1 reviews | Active since May 2015

02 Mar 2016, 11:38

Bad customer service

We booked a flight from Johannesburg to Nairobi for two of our directors. These were SAA flights booked via Travelstart. The tickets were booked on 11 February. Travel date was 23rd February.<br> <br> On the 22nd February when the directors PA went to do online check in it was discovered that the directors THIRD name (Basil) had been spelt with a Z rather than an S. We called travel start to inquire if this would be a problem. They in turn called SAA. In the end a new ticket had to be purchased! <br> Now the airline is charging a penalty fee of R5620 on a ticket that cost R8562!<br> This is terrible service given that they did not lose a customer or a booking. We simply needed to have ONE letter changed!

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Travelstart
Travelstart's reply02 Mar 2016, 12:10
Official
Hello MargotSCH,

Thank you for taking my call.

SAA does have a no name change policy. Our refunds team will however follow up with SAA on whether a full refund can be considered based on the fact that identical flights were purchased.

Kind regards,
Nazley de Vos