"up,up and away?"

In 1993 my family and I flew to BKK (Bangkok) on a Varig 747-400 from JNB (Johannesburg)  it was a codeshare flight with SAA.  The aircraft originally departed from Rio stopped in Sao Paulo and Cape Town before it landed in Joburg (JNB) where we boarded and from BKK it went on to HKG (HongKong) -  great aircraft utilization but unfortunately VARIG is no longer operational.