South African Airways

✅ Trip Verified | A330-300. Positives : Good entertainment system. Good device recharge options. New plane. Negatives : Really poor legroom, IMO seats unusable. I am 1.82m, so not especially tall. Grumpy air hostess. Will not fly SAA again due to poor seats and legroom.

✅ Verified Review | Booked the bulkhead row 63D and 63E on the A340, what a mistake. The seats are so close to the bulkhead that you cannot straighten out your legs. The positives are: no one in front of you and space to stand up. However not been able to straighten your legs made these seats very uncomfortable compared to other airlines we have travelled. We also had to pay extra for these seats and was also assured by the reservation staff that there was extra room, which is correct, but they also failed to warn us about the leg room.

Checked in online so be sure we would sit together and with enough space. Get to the boarding gate to be told 2 different seats, apart from each other! Less width and more leg space! I don't need more leg space - I need to be able to lift the arm rests, access the remote and not constantly touch a stranger for 10 hours! How could I refuse with literally the whole plane standing behind you staring.

Avoid at all costs seats 37A/B and 38A/B. Row 36 in economy is reserved for families with babies and so row 36 on the left side of the aircraft is shifted back several cm. As a result row 37 and row 38 have much much less legroom. My knees were pressing into the seat back of row 36 for the entire trip (14+ hours) and the situation was made much worse by the fact that the person seated in 36A jammed the seat all the way back as far as she could giving me even less leg room. My seat mate was a large tall gentlemen and he suffered far more than I did. For both of us the seats in row 37 were claustrophobic. Couple that with the fact that both seats in row 36 have boxes under them that restrict the amount of room people in row 37 have to stretch their legs and you've got the recipe for a very uncomfortable ride.

Mediocre seat. Flew from JFK to JNB. Very little legroom but good recline.

The seat was slightly harder than I remember but was still comfortable the entertainment system was one of the best I've ever seen with large screens. They also had three meal options as opposed to two. If you're looking for a good low cost carrier definitely fly SAA!

Very comfortable seat very large leg room good food good choice of entertainment and very hospitable crew. Definitely is a must fly!

Seat was okay got the bulkhead which was very good, meant a good deal to have extra legroom. SAA's food still comes up tops servings very generous as is the drink. (Nice to see the amarula as a South African). There was no inseat entertainment.

Economy class from Frankfurt to Johannesburg return. We were traveling with 4 people and seated in the middle row. I found the seats to be comfortable the recline was ok. Even with the person in front of me reclined there was still enough room to move about and to get in and out of your seat easily. I enjoyed about 6 hours of sleep during the flight.