If you are know who you want to fly with and when, then they can book it for you. however, if you're not familiar b/c you're going to a destination you've never been to, you're not gonna get much help here.
I'm not sure what the deal is but perhaps they dont' do alot of bookings for SA. The trip planning was hell (for me) as i had no help/support from either of the 2 travel agencies. (My freind who is from Peru, fwd'ed me 2 ads, from 2 diff companies b/c he is on the list for airfare promos to his country). This "agent" only booked my tix that's all. Didn't know the routes for domestic and i had to research everthing on my own and despite me giving her the internal flights she never got back to me on pricing for internal tix (hence i had to spend more time and figure it out and go on tripadvisor and booked them from local air carriers). I was only e-mailied an itin which i assumed was also my etix (?). As i was fine tuning everything I called the air carrier myself to ensure that my tix were confirmed....i found out we had no seats!! Are you kidding me --and I booked 3 months prior to departure and i guess all the good seats are now taken! :( The cust svs agent says I need to contact the agent back to book the seats.... read more