that does'nt sound bad at all, its a pretty tiring flight though!! i read some where u had to stay at dubai for ages before u can board again to head back to the states.
i honestly dont know when the week end is for SA but i know tomorrow and sat are off here so i'm guessing here its the same down at B's.
edit: i did tell a friend of mine how u had to stay in dubai int for more than 6 hours and he felt soo much better for only spending 6 hours at frankfurt int before hitching a flight back to canada.
The flight is pretty bad. I flew Sydney to L.A. (like in the TV show
Lost) once and thought that was bad. It's nothing.
Going East I stay over in Dubai overnight. Not necessarily for ages, but Emirates even puts you up in a hotel, the flight is so long. The hotel itself is a real mix around the world. Last time, it was heavy on people from Senegal and the Ivory Coast.
The stay is a good break. You get to walk around and have a normal meal between a 15-1/2-hour flight and a 9-hour flight.
At B's, the 16th is a national holiday called Day of Rememberance. It's basically a politically correct repurposed one that used to stand for the Boers who killed off the Zulus in a bloody battle some 250 years ago. Things change.