This is a joke right ????

it is easy to blame saa if u have never travelled to usa,the custom officials there treat people like nobodies.people should stop blaming saa for everything,if not happy fly with someone else and stop complaining.

Okay, it's a rule. I get it. So you want to tell me that there is a RULE out there that basically stipulates that I will NEVER be able to use the last two pages in my passport? How wonderfully...silly. Why have those pages in your passport then? Does this mean I can complain if an official wastes space in my passport because they don't stamp neatly?

This is not a rare occurrence at all. Over and over again our groups arrive with a couple of passengers missing because they were denied boarding at JFK or IAD. It is not SAA's fault at all. They are obliged to go by the rules set down by the SA immigration authorities. The "two blank pages" rule is not unjustified. In Europe, you can cross any number of borders and they don't stamp your passport. In Africa, You get two stamps every time you cross a border, and that's what the pages are for. Also, it should be noted that the last page of a US passport is "For Official Use Only", which means that it does not count as a blank page. This has misled a lot of people. The best thing that we South Africans can do is to let all our potential visitors know that this is not a trivial requirement, and that they must have two ordinary blank pages available.

SAA acted correctly. The rule is simple, all non-resident foreign passport holders need at least 2 blank pages to enter the RSA. This is not an SAA rule it is an immigration rule and she would have been put right back on the plane to Washington. Well done SAA. People should first invesitgate a matter before making ignorant statements about the airline.

Hypocrisy! Travellers know these things. Visitors must respect host entry requirements, period - still entry is not gauranteed as any of transport/ customs/ security officials can still stop a visitor for a variety reasons. DO SOME ACTUAL INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL & YOU WILL APPRECIATE THESE KINDS OF THINGS.

Just forgot to mention that some 2 years ago in Capetown a similar situation happend :
And a certain Superintendant missbehaved in a very offensive manner with me when I arrived there completly overtired !
He threatend to send me back to Germany emmediatly instead of being assistive and helping to solve this formal problem: The expiring date was nearly reached, enough to have it renewed at the embasy in Capetown, but he insisted that it had to be solved at once and that in a very hostile attitude.
Itsmelled of racism. He obviously disliked whites.
Due to a versatile and agile embassy staff the worst could be avoided after some stressful hours and quite some costs.
I hope that in this lifetime I will have the golden opportunity to pay this unpleasent man back for that missbehave for whom there was no excuse.

GO AWAY CUSTOMAR ---
thats the vibe everywhere in S.A. busyness ( rather to be called Lazyness).
When I was flying SAA recently, the service was horrible, the attitude of stewards and-esses terrible and obvious, the comment of many other customars: "Never again SAA".........They will see it soon by decrease of turnover.
Since I am close to South Africa, since the 80s, the same thing is obvious to me: Safricans, maybe due to the appartheid situation, are not the sole inventors of hard labour.

Thank your lucky stars, South Africans, you have dodged a nasty bullet.

Simple thing is that there are rules governing the whole travel industry and immigration etc. I think SAA was right in barring this person who did not comply with the regulations. We as South Africans protest when this sort of thigs happens but guess what, if we all followed the basic laws of our country then we would all be better off. We actually try to break the laws, ignore them and it is becoming a national pasttime for us. So fellow South Africans who expect the laws to be bent, broken, ignored etc SCREW YOU, Obey the law and stop being ignorant people of all ages, genders, colours religions, financial status and so on and so on. THE LAW APPLIES EQUALLY TO ALL PEOPLE NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND NO EXCEPTIONS