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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Mountaineer AH fanatic. Has anyone had experiences leaving guns with the airlines for that long? You take them to hotel for night with you. It would save having to get a firearm permit in South Africa.
AH ambassador. Check in is usually limited to a couple hours ahead of the flight. Do you know if your guns and checked bags will go straight through to Namibia or do you have to collect them and then go to the check in counter for your flight to Namibia? If the bags are checked straight through, that's sort of a scary thought with the bags and guns sitting in a baggage cart that long.
However, you can get a day room at the Protea Hotel, in the International terminal in the secured area. You are only allowed to use this hotel for connecting international flights. You can eat at the restrarauts in the terminal. If your bags and gun are not checked all the way to Windhoek, then do you clear them into RSA? Get a room at the City Lodge and relax for the 10 yours or so. Money well spent IMHO. Assuming your have checked your bags all the way to Windhoek, but have a layover in Johannesburg, you can't take your guns out of the airport to your hotel or anywhere else.
An airport baggage employee will take them to the firearm's police desk in the airport, lock them in the vault, and then see that they get on your next flight. If you are connecting with Airlink Airline to Windhoek, make sure you have advance permission to check rifles, The form is on their website. And drop an Apple Airtag in your gun case so you know where they are at all times.
