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26 Feb 2010	Kulula World Cup prices.


24 Feb 2010	Long weekend travel prices - car rentals, flights & accommodation.


17 Feb 2010	JNB car hire from R157/night.


12 Feb 2010	Mango travel special from Johannesburg to Durban (R349).


12 Feb 2010	Flight prices on the up, from Cape Town to Johannesburg (Cape Argus Cycle tour effect?).


11 Feb 2010	SAA flight special - Johannesburg to Livingstone return from R750.


5 Feb 2010	British Airways flight from Durban.




29 Jan 2010	SAA fare specials: CPT to Dubai from R6098 JNB to Maputo from R2423 JNB - Vic Falls from R2395




26 Jan 2010	Kulula seat sale - R299 & R399.




25 Jan 2010	1time pre-soccer special




21 Jan 2010	Interlink R299 Cape Town to Pretoria flight (one-off on Monday).




12 Jan 2010	Fly Durban R884 (return, including tax).







23 Dec 2009	14 Jetstream aircraft of SA Airlink grounded, the jetstream planes make up more than half of its fleet.






3 Dec 2009	World Cup travel - car rentals reasonable, flights expensive & accommodation impossible in Nelspruit, Polokwane & the Pilanesburg.






2 Dec 2009	Mango Airlines Dec newsletter. Flights specials, cruises & Tempest Car Hire specials.






1 Dec 2009	Fly Durban from R883, Rome from R4362.





17 Nov 2009	Mango Wednesday happy hour.





30 Oct 2009	Kulula ketchup newsletter for October 2009.






1 Oct 2009	Sean finds his heart in Africa
1 Nov 2009	Interlink Airlines starts operating flights between Wonderboom & Cape Town, and Wonderboom & Durban. Wonderboom is near Pretoria/Tshwane.






20 Oct 2009	Fly Joburg - Cape Town from R896, fly direct from Joburg to London from R4375 (return, including tax).






to end Oct 2009	Mango Air Race competition.






22 Oct 2009	Kulula 100,000 seat sale .




15 Oct 2009	The 1time Hurry flight special for travel in November (JNB-CPT from R429, JNB-DUR from R299)






13 Oct 2009	We have a look at December flight prices.






9 Oct 2009	The Mango Juice October issue is out. This is Mango's in-flight magazine (caution - it takes a long time to download).






1 Oct 2009	It is announced that Cheryl Carolus has been appointed SAA chairwoman with effect from 28 Sep 2009.






29 Sep 2009	Mango financial results for the year ending 31 Mar 2009.






28 Sep 2009	flysaa Sep newsletter






26 Sep 2009	Kulula birthday special (R389 Joburg - Cape Town flight prices).






25 Sep 2009	The Sep 09 Mango Juice issues is out (Mango Airlines' inflight magazine). It is a 9meg file, so will take a loooong time to download (some 10m to 20m).






24 Sep 2009	Airlink flight 8911 crashes in Merebank, Durban.






23 Sep 2009	Yes, you can book your flight with an internet transfer. You don't have to use a credit card.






22 Sep 2009	Airline price war (JNB-CPT from R869)






20 Sep 2009	1time trinations special (R309 between Joburg and Durban, R399 everywhere else).






14 Sep 2009	Review of a CPT-JNB 1time flight (which we booked for R299 per person).
16 Sep 2009	SAA Voyager September newsletter.






14 Sep 2009	Review of a 1time flight from CPT - JNB. We noticed an improvement in their onboard advertising, but the baggage handling dissapointed.






12 Sep 2009	Mango R542 Friday flight.






8 Sep 2009	JNB-DUR from R766






5 Sep 2009	British Airways cheaper than Translux (Durban - Cape Town flight).






1 Sep 2009	1Time Holidays is launched.






23 Aug 2009	Review of the Arabella Hotel in between Hermanus & Kleinmond, South Africa.
19 Aug 2009	Review of a BA South Africa flight.
15 Sep 2009	Mango Airline happy hour.






2 Sep 2009	Fly Durban R696, Port Elizabeth from R896.






31 Aug 2009	Kulula spring sale.






27 Aug 2009	First Car Rental from R160 a day in Durban car hire survey.






25 Aug 2009	Cape Town in the Springtime - whales, perfect weather and spring flowers.






25 Aug 2009	Kulula credit card funnies.






24 Aug 2009	KLM European specials (London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich)






23 Aug 2009	We had a look at the Jackass Penguin colony at Stony Point in Bettys Bay






21 Aug 2009	BA Mastercard specials (also City Lodge & Budget Car Rental).






20 Aug 2009	Our guest writer Lorna Everett writes about her 1time flight in "Flying was the easy part".






20 Aug 2009	Mango limited offer (R199 prices).






18 Aug 2009	Cheap flight prices: CPT-DUR R676 JNB-DUR R839






12 Aug 2009	Airline prices: CPT-DUR R903 JNB-DUR R902






6 Aug 2009	Cheap airline prices: JNB-DUR R902 JNB-ROM R4129 CPT-BLM R987 DUR-CPT R945






30 Jul 2009	1time mile low flight special of R299 for Johannesburg - Cape Town & Cape Town - Durban flights.






29 Jul 2009	Cheap flight prices: Joburg to Durban from R902 Joburg to Lagos from R3809 CPT to Durban from R945 CPT to Bloem from R987






26 Jul 2009	BA cheapest but we fly Mango!






24 Jul 2009	Bumped onto Mango flight by Interlink.






20 Jul 2009	Mango Happy Hour special from 1200 to 1400 on tuesday 21 July 2009: JNB to CPT from R 429 all incl DUR to CPT from R 429 all incl BFN to CPT from R 429 all incl






15 Jul 2009	Cheap flights South Africa: Cape Town - Durban from R945, Johannesburg - Lagos from R3825.






7 Jul 2009	This week's cheap flights.






4 Jul 2009	Kulula Kalahari Thinkmoney competition.







1 Jul 2009	Mango July 2009 newsletter has come out.







29 Jun 2009	1time Confed specials. R309 for JHB-DUR, R419 everywhere else.







24 Jun 2009	DUR-JNB from R705 (return, incl tax) - and other flight prices we thought were juicy.






22 Jun 2009	My 1time hamper (Count Pushkin).






16 Jun 2009	School holiday best prices (including R798 Durban - Johannesburg).







8 Jun 2009	Kulula take-off specials (JNB-CPT from R420)







7 Jun 2009	We are now covering flights from South Africa to Dubai (UAE).







6 Jun 2009	SAA adds a 3rd weekly Johannesburg-Douala flight (leaving Johannesburg on Saturdays).
3 Jun 2009	Air Namibia flights between Windhoek & London are being suspended from 3 June 2009, and flights between Johannesburg & Windhoek are reducing to one daily from 27 May 2009.


2 Jun 2009	Winter warmer flight specials. JNB - GEORGE from R1072.







1 Jun 2009	Best May 2009 Southern Africa travel blog posting.
25 May 2009	Youth day flight specials, including JNB - LON for R4572.







21 May 2009	Flight Centre stops offering Kulula flights, as a result of them not being able to negotiate a suitable remuneration model.







21 May 2009	Review of 1time-Mango Cape Town - Johannesburg flight.







18 May 2009	Photos of landmarks as one lands at Cape Town International Airport
14 May 2009	School holiday flight prices. Time to start planning.







12 May 2009	1time interest rate cut specials - from R409 for all SA routes except JNB-DUR is from R309.





12 May 2009	1time flight review from JNB to CPT.







6 May 2009	16 June flight specials - plan your long weekend now.







2 May 2009	We have set up a page listing airports in South Africa.


22 Apr 2009	Flight specials - including Joburg to Durban for R576 (return, incl. tax).


17 Apr 2009	Fly Joburg to Durban for R576 (return, incl. tax). Today's best flight prices.


to 15 Apr 2009	Mango 20% discount on next flight for booking with an American Express card.


9 Apr 2009	Today's cheapest flight prices (R1057 CPT- DUR return, R5535 JNB-Buenos Aires)



6 Apr 2009	A guest review of Interlink Airlines, by Chris Everett. We accept guest articles. Send articles you would like considered for publication to cheapflights@southafrica.to



5 Apr 2009	We are now covering flights from Johannesburg to Mala Mala (Kruger National Park) and flights to Skukuza.



2 Apr 2009	Today's best flight prices (incl. R1076 from Joburg to Cape Town).



28 Mar 2009	Mango way cheaper than 1time & Kulula from Joburg to Durban.






25 Mar 2009	Kulula flight specials (e.g. R309 Johannesburg to Durban, R409 Johannesburg to Cape Town).






21 Mar 2009	We are now covering CFA Air Charters, a fantastic company for you to use for charters between Gauteng, Mpumalanga & Mozambique.




26 Mar 2009	Mango are offering a 50% discount on one of the legs of a return flight flown before 31 Mar and booked before 1400 on 27 Mar 2009.




20 Mar 2009	Looking for cheap accommodation in Cape Town? The Sir Francis Executive Luxury Suites are from R79 a night!






20 Mar 2009	Need a flight off the beaten track? Here's a list of charter airlines in SA.






17 Mar 2009	Johannesburg to Durban from R688 (return, incl. tax). The week's best flight prices.






15 Mar 2009	1time flight specials...including R395 for flights from CPT to JNB.






11 Mar 2009	Photos of landmarks as you land in Johannesburg (O.R. Tambo International Airport).






10 Mar 2009	This week's best flight prices. The price of R7065 to LAX looks particularly juicy.






5 Mar 2009	This week's flight prices (including Johannesburg to New York from R6245)





22 Feb 2009	Review of an SAA flight (from Johannesburg to Cape Town) - we thought it was free, but got nailed with the airport taxes.




14 Feb 2009	Somebody forgot to tell the airlines that inflation is meant to be coming down! Flight price inflation is now 32%!




10 Feb 2009	Some Valentines offers from the airlines.




6 Feb 2009	10 tips to survive a plane crash
29 Jan 2009	Our article about the ACSA monopoloy is being used as a case study in the next grade 12 South African economic text book!




28 Jan 2009	Kulula first cancels our flight with 49 hours notice (as it's empty, and they want to protect their bottom line) and then changes the flight time of the new flight when we arrive at the airport (and the flight is delayed from the new time).




26 Jan 2009	Emirates Durban flights: From 1 Oct 2009 Emirates are offering non-stop direct flights between Durban and Dubai.




22 Jan 2009	Virgin Atlantic & BA sale - fantastic prices from South Africa to London.


21 Jan 2009	Airtime Airlines are one step closer to being up in the air, as the Air Service Council accepts Airquarius's application to operate scheduled air services. They have changed their start date for DUR-JNB flights to 30 Jan 2009.


21 Jan 2009	Tempest Car Hire Jan 2009 newsletter (offering rentals from R179 a day).


Jan 2009	Chicken or beef, dagga or coke? the SAA drugs bust.
20 Jan 2009	Kulula's first sale in 2009. Great prices, but we were dissapointed that they made the sale unecessarily complex by excluding airport taxes.


18 Jan 2009	Breaking news: some hot 1time flight specials, plus they are increasing their flight frequencies beween Durban and Cape Town.


13 Jan 2009	New year flight prices (return JNB-CPT for R949, JNB-CAIRO for R4057, JNB-ISTANBUL for R4886).


12 Jan 2009	A 1time flight makes an emergency landing at PE Airport, after its engine makes 3 loud sounds and the plane lists to its side.


10 Jan 2009	It's been reported that Virgin Nigeria will be suspending Johannesburg - Lagos flights from the 27th Jan 2009. Zambian Airways has suspended flights.


7 Jan 2009	In a first for this time of year, Imperial Car Rental at East London Airport has run out of cars to rent to clients (with the ANC election manifesto being launched at the ABSA stadium on Saturday, demand is high).


7 Jan 2009	A bunch of Mango specials have been announced (JNB-DUR from R299, CPT-JNB from R499, BFN-CPT from R499, DUR-CPT from R499).
7 Jan 2009
6 Jan 2009	How I paid R1451 for a "free" Voyager SAA return flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg.


6 Jan 2009	Air Aquarius's Chief Executive has said that the deal with Blackbird Aviation has collapsed and that his company would no longer be partnering Blackbird Aviation - this puts into doubt whether Airtime Airlines' will take to the skies on the 25th Jan.
3 Jan 2009	Airtime Airlines flight schedule is revealed.


3 Jan 2009	What happened to Mango Flex ticket sales? We couldn't find any for sale in January.




5 Jan 2009	Airtime Airlines opening prices (at last).


30 Dec 2008	We review 1time travel insurance (which is actually a travel insurance policy written by AIG Travel, 1time are the intermediaries)




29 Dec 2008	We have placed Skyscanner's flight price comparison tool into our webpages on flights from the UK to Johannesburg & flights from the UK to Cape Town.
23 Dec 2008	South African Express have added 2 Bombardier CRJ-700 aircraft to their fleet.




23 Dec 2008	We are now covering flights from Cape Town to Stockholm (Sweden) and flights from Stockholm to Cape Town.




18 Dec 2008	Beware of a Mango ticket scam - involving the sale of Mango Airline tickets.




12 Dec 2008	Airtime Airlines are apparently going to allow you to purchase "minutes" instead of conventional point to point tickets - Durban to Johannesburg flights costing 75 minutes and Durban to Cape Town costing 125 minutes. Minutes purchased being valid for a year.
12 Dec 2008	Special fares from Johannesburg to Durban, Cape Town, London (direct), New York and Geneva (Switzerland); with Mango, 1time, Egypt Air and Virgin Atlantic.
12 Dec 2008	We are now covering flights from Douala to Johannesburg, from Johannesburg to Douala, from Kinshasa to Johannesburg, from Johannesburg to Kinshasa, from Dakar to Johannesburg and from Johannesburg to Dakar.
11 Dec 2008	In order to improve the user experience we have revamped our template for flights from the UK to South Africa. The new template has menus which those flying from the UK would be interested in, rather than South African specific menus.
11 Dec 2008	We have expanded to cover flights from Abuja to Johannesburg and from Johannesburg to Abuja.
10 Dec 2008	Airtime Airlines website is up and running (well, semi). And to kick things off they're offering a Durban-Johannesburg return ticket for R795, including R25 airtime for your cellphone (and I'm starting to understand why they chose the name Airtime!)
10 Dec 2008	Three Boeings operated by the now defunkt Nationwide Airlines are sold to an unknown bidder for some R11m.
10 Dec 2008	It's been announced that BA (British Airways) will be the official sponsor of the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa next year. They'll fly the team and coach from London to Johannesburg, and within the country on the BA Comair franchise.
10 Dec 2008	We are now covering flights from Lagos to Johannesburg and from Johannesburg to Lagos.
9 Dec 2008	Airtime Airlines logo is unveiled.
11 Dec 2008	Mango & Comair on don't fly list! A US TV Station, MSNBC, have a "Today" show on which Peter Greenberg listed Mango Airlines and Comair amongst airlines which are to be avoided!




9 Dec 2008	Top 5 flight specials.




5 Dec 2008	Holiday specials - Johannnesburg to Cape Town, Durban, Paris, Mauritius and Dubai.




3 Dec 2008	Kulula's December specials.




3 Dec 2008	Flight specials between Cape Town, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Durban and London.




6 Dec 2008	A new low-cost carrier with a base in Durban is being launched on the 14th December (with Durban-Joburg flights starting on the 4th January 2008). Its name is Airtime Airlines.




1 Dec 2008	From 15 Dec 2008, Emirates is operating one-stop flights from Johannesburg to San Francisco (California, USA).




1 Dec 2008	Mango & Nu Metro cinemas team up - purchase a Mango airline ticket during December and you can use it to buy 2 Nu Metro tickets for the price one (selected hours only).
30 Nov 2008	SAA strike ends in the evening, with SAA (South African Airways) agreeing to not go ahead with the outsourcing of the call centre to Dimension Data.


25 Nov 2008	Specials. Our best prices. Johannesburg to Durban, Cape Town, George, PE, London, Paris, Maputo and more.


25 Nov 2008	Happy birthday Mango Airlines. To celebrate there are 20,000 Mango half price tickets.


21 Nov 2008	Our top fares: Joburg-Cape Town (R1398), Joburg-London (R6636), Joburg-Paris (R6595), Joburg-New York (R8337), Joburg-Glasgow (R7253)


19 Nov 2008	Kulula have been pretty quiet, so it's nice to see them come up with their Kulula festive specials.


18 Nov 2008	Mango Happy hour! Between 1300 and 1400 today purchase Mango tickets at a discount (limited tickets available, and only for travel up to 4 Dec).


16 Nov 2008	We've set up a page focussing on TAAG Angola Airlines.


15 Nov 2008	Loophole - book Mango flight prices cheaper than their standard prices! Move quickly - Mango will close this loophole as soon as they discover I've exposed it.


15 Nov 2008	Mango Airlines' Mango Plus tickets offer flexibility to business travellers.


15 Nov 2008	Options for helicopter rides in Cape Town (e.g. Huey helicopter club).


14 Nov 2008	The 60th anniversary of the first flight on the Wallaby Route (Sydney to Johannesburg), flown by Qantas Empire Airways in 1948.


12 Nov 2008	With flights from Dubai to both Cape Town and Johannesburg, we decided it's time to set up a page dedicated to Emirates flights from South Africa.


9 Nov 2008	Yesterday we mentioned that Kulula flights to Lanseria are cheaper than to O.R. Tambo Airport. What we failed to mention is that they are also cheaper than SA Roadlink bus trips to Johannesburg. Unbelievably, Kulula flights are cheaper than SA Roadlink buses.


7 Nov 2008	Nosewheels and Novembers do not mix well. On the 2nd Nov 2007, an SAA Airbus found its nosewheel stuck in the molehills at Cape Town International Airport. Now today, a 1time MD83 slipped off the end of the runway at East London Airport - apparently the wind was strong (80km/h) and its a tight turn at the end of the runway.


7 Nov 2008	It's announced that SAA call centres (including Voyager & flight reservations) is being outsourced.


2 Nov 2008	We showcase the top 5 SA travel blogs of October 2008.
1 Nov 2008	South Africa's first fashion show in the sky - Ed Hard labels are modelled on a 1time flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
28 Oct 2008	Kulula Lanseria frequencies are increased to Cape Town & Durban, but PE flights are scrapped. Readers are unhappy about the PE flights being scrapped.
20 Oct 2008	Mango November birthday sale - Mango Airlines celebrates their 2nd birthday in November and are celebrating with some deductions to their air fares.
26 Oct 2008	SAA increases its flights from Frankfurt to Johannesburg to 10 weekly.
26 Oct 2008	SAA increases its flights between Mumbai and Johannesburg to 5 weekly.
15 Oct 2008	Openskies plans to begin flights between Amsterdam and New York.
Oct 2008	SAA (South African Airways) plans on increasing its flights between Johannesburg and Munich to daily.
Oct 2008	Rwandair Express plans to lease a new Boeing 737-300 and resume flights between Kigali and Johannesburg.
13 Oct 2008	Mango specials which must be booked by the 12th October, are offered on the 13th October!
12 Oct 2008	1time is running a Cape Town - Durban flight special from R289, and any other route in South Africa from R389.
12 Oct 2008
8 Oct 2008	Kulula are running a Lanseria Airport Sale just for today (8 Oct 2008) and only for flights flown in November.


1 Oct 2008	SAA boss, Khaya Ngqula, has been paid almost R20m by SAA since starting work there.
1 Oct 2008	SAA are running a special for flights booked up to 3 Oct 2008 (and flying from 6 Oct to 20 Nov).
3 Sep 2008	Kulula humour - we love Kulula's irreverent sense of humour, and have set up a collection.
1 Sep 2008	Mango DBN-JHB flights from R299 in September, October (& from R499 for other routes).
31 Aug 2008	News for those visiting the friendly city - we've set up a page focussing on Port Elizabeth Airport.
24 Aug 2008	Photos of 7 landmarks you see when landing at Johannesburg Airport O.R. Tambo.
22 Aug 2008	1time flight specials - the airline are running what they call their "Olympic specials": JNB-DBN flights from R289 and everywhere else from R389.
20 Aug 2008	Some photos we took of a couple of SAA planes at Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport.
16 Aug 2008	I've booked my flight from Cape Town to London - chose SAA, as I prefer a direct flight to the cheapest flight.
12 Aug 2008	You know your plane is approaching Johannesburg when...you can see the smoggy air - photos of Johannesburg's sick city syndrome.
11 Aug 2008	Kodak moment - here's a series of photos of a Kulula plane at Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport.
10 Aug 2008	Review of the Kulula in-flight magazine, Comic Life, the August edition.
15 Aug 2008	SAA 5 day flight special. SAA are running a special for selected local flights booked between the 15th and the 19th August (where travel is from the 1st September to the 31st October).
5 Aug 2008	Mango cheap flight ads (e.g. JNB-DUR for R311, unfortuanately we couldn't find the R410 CPT-JNB flights they were advertising).
2 Aug 2008	Have just booked a return trip from Cape Town to Joburg on the 10th August - Kulula on the way there, hiring a car with First Car Rental & flying SAA on the way back (yes, they were cheapest).
2 Aug 2008	Even though flight prices are skyrocketing, car rental prices are low (in fact at record lows this year), thanks to First Car Rental.
1 Aug 2008	1time airline, together with African Encounters, are offering some special travel packages to Zanzibar.
27 Jul 2008	BA & Iberia Airways announce that they are talking about an all-share merger - the two have been in a cooperation agreement since the late 1990s.
27 Jul 2008	British Airways flights are cheapest from Windhoek to Johannesburg (but you gotta book on the Kulula website) and Air Namibia is cheapest from Johannesburg to Windhoek.
26 Jul 2008	For the second week in a row First Car Rental are offering record low car rental prices.
26 Jul 2008	Mango Airlines R2 bonus - if you book a Mango flight by 31 Jul 2008 (and fly by 31 Aug) you stand to win a prize. We calculate that the cost of the Mango prizes equates to about R2 per ticket booked.
22 Jul 2008	This is why it's worthwhile joining Kulula's jetsetters club - it's their 7th birthday today (happy birthday!) and they're offering all jetsetter members R147 of Kulula moolah as a present (the catch being that they've got until the 25th to spend it).
22 Jul 2008	Once again, Delta Airlines are offering the cheapest flight from Joburg to Atlanta.
20 Jul 2008	We are now covering flights from Cape Town to Bangkok (Thailand).
20 Jul 2008	Looking for a holiday that doesn't burn a gaping hole in your pocket? Research indicates that Thailand, South Africa and Turkey are the cheapest spots to visit.
20 Jul 2008	We had a look at a multicity flight booking - London-Johannesburg, Cape Town-London, and South African Airways (SAA) was cheapest.
16 Jul 2008	Well done Cape Town International Airport! In the 2008 Skytrax awards, Cape Town International Airport was voted the 10th best airport in the world (Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International was voted second best airport in Africa).
12 Jul 2008	On the DBN-CPT flight route, Mango Airlines are once again cheapest (unless you take the bus, in which case City to City are cheapest). In Cape Town car rentals, Avis South Africa is cheapest, and the Road Lodge at Cape Town International offers you the cheapest night's accommodation.
11 Jul 2008	Qatar Airways is offering the cheapest flights from Johannesburg to Manchester (UK) - R7883. Emirates is second cheapest.
11 Jul 2008	The Singita Sabi Sand, at the Kruger National Park, has been voted the world's best hotel by the readers of Travel & Leisure magazine.
6 Jul 2008	Emirates is cheapest from Joburg to London - currently charging R8419 for this December return flight.
6 Jul 2008	Delta Airlines is cheapest from Johannesburg to Atlanta (R11510 for a return flight in November).
6 Jul 2008	We are now covering flights from Cape Town to Washington DC. In this comparison, United Airlines are offering the cheapest flights from Cape Town to Washington.
5 Jul 2008	Flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg is cheaper than taking the bus (!), thanks to Interlink Airlines and their R398 price tag. In other news Baz Bus has increased their prices for the first time this year. City Lodge, Town Lodge & the Road Lodge hotels have also increased their prices.
5 Jul 2008	Qatar Airways are offering the cheapest return flights from Cape Town to London (R6783). Emirates are second cheapest at R8419.
2 Jul 2008	Just released - KLM July specials - some good prices from the UK to Johannesburg, but in comparison Emirates is still mostly cheaper.
28 Jun 2008	Interlink Airlines is cheapest in our latest Durban - Johannesburg flight survey. Well done to the new kid on the block. Avis Car Rental is offering the cheapest car rental (well, Hertz quoted us R0 but no doubt there was something wrong with their booking engine!). Road Lodge offers the cheapest night's accommodation.
26 Jun 2008	Great news - Interlink Airlines is starting operating flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town (from 27 Jun) and Johannesburg and Durban (from 4 July). Their cheapest Friday the 4th July 1800 flight from Joburg to Cape Town is currently R398.
24 Jun 2008	Tempest & Mango & Standard Bank are all running specials in Tempest Car Hire's June newsletter. Mango are advertising flights from R311 (not as juicy as 1time's flight special which is from R299 for Joburg-Durban flights), Tempest Car Hire offering car rentals from R149 per day on weekends and if you hire a Tempest Car in the next 30 days you'll find a Standard Bank Travel Wallet on your car seat.
22 Jun 2008	Trends in the SA Airline industry. We use a research tool which Google labs recently released to analyse the search traffic which each airline is receiving.
22 Jun 2008	SAA is not in takeover talks. A rumour, started by MiceBTN, an Australian websited, started doing the rounds that SAA (South African Airways) was in talks with 3 competitors (Emirates, Lufthansa and bmi) to take over the operation of its international flights. This would see SAA selling its international traffic rights, leaving it to concentrate on flights within Africa. SAA has since clarified that it is not contemplating selling its international traffic.
19 Jun 2008	A very cheap 1time flight special - R299 for Joburg-Durban flights and R329 between most other destinations in South Africa.
18 Jun 2008	Johannesburg to London flight price comparisons - Qatar Airways is cheapest.
18 Jun 2008	A British Airways plane spun off the runway after landing at a wet and windy Durban Airport.
18 Jun 2008	We've set up a webpage looking at Club Travel South Africa.
17 Jun 2008	Comparison of flight prices from Cape Town to East London - 1time airline is cheapest on the 26th June and SA Express is cheapest on the 29th June.
15 Jun 2008	Just heard that 5 members of Air Canada's staff at London Heathrow Airport have been honoured with an outstanding service award for flying to South Africa on their own steam and using a week of their annual leave to refurbish a township school in South Africa. Well done to John Choules, Shabana Khokhar, Wayne Bernie, Ahjaz Osman and Fiona Puglia - you have directly helped 120 children under the age of 9 years, some of them babies. The world is a better place for you being in it and the award is richly deserved.
14 Jun 2008	According to Beeld newspaper, UN staff have been warned to avoid flights which land at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo airport after dark, and highlighted the possibility of being robbed whilst leaving your hotel for the airport. Staff were advised to keep items in their cars out of sight.
13 Jun 2008	Want to get from Toronto to South Africa? We are now covering flights from Toronto to Johannesburg and flights from Toronto to Cape Town.
13 Jun 2008	Hahaha...I've just been reading UCT's Sax Appeal and how it takes the mickey out of "South African Aircrimes".
11 Jun 2008	In both our recent surveys of flights from Cape Town to East London, SA Express have been cheapest.
11 Jun 2008	KLM versus Emirates: KLM is currently cheaper than Emirates for London to Cape Town flights, but more expensive for Johannesburg to London flights.
7 Jun 2008	Once again, cheapest is Mango Airlines (we looked at Johannesburg-Durban flights). For the first time in our surveys Tempest Car Hire is not cheapest - this honour belongs to Avis South Africa. Protea Hotel Edward has seen a steep increase in the prices of its rooms.
9 Jun 2008	Warning: Slick thieves at George airport swap laptop bags whilst you sit at the Ekaya restaurant in the airport
9 Jun 2008	Kenya Airways are offering the cheapest return flights from Entebbe (Uganda) to Johannesburg.
8 Jun 2008	We are now covering flights from Johannesburg to Guangzhou (China) as well as flights from Cape Town to Guangzhou. If you book with Emirates (one stop in Dubai), then they're offering a free night in a Premier room at the Shangri-La Hotel. The offer is valid on all bookings made on or after 1st May 2008, and for all passengers who travel to Guangzhou between 1 Jul and 30 Sep 2008.
8 Jun 2008	Survey results: Mango Airlines is currently cheapest on Cape Town to Bloemfontein and Bloemfontein to Cape Town flights.
7 Jun 2008	We've been looking at how to get from Mbabane to Maputo and covering flights from Johannesburg to Maun (Botswana).
5 Jun 2008	Comair is named the preferred bidder for the Air Botswana management contract.
5 Jun 2008	Added some photos of an email received regarding the Kulula Jetsetters Club.
3 Jun 2008	Review of the June edition of Kulula Comic Life, their in-flight magazine.
2 Jun 2008	We live in a non-compliant country, just have a look at the taxis in the traffic on the way to work. In another travel industry, the airline industry, Kulula had a momentary lapse of security on a flight I was on.
2 Jun 2008	The Kulula Jetsetters Club has been launched - a loyalty club for Kulula whereby you can earn Kulula moolah for booking flights.
2 Jun 2008	What a bunch of slackers - staff are sleeping on the job at Joburg Airport (in the baby's changing room).
1 Jun 2008	We have set up a webpage focussed on Air Travelmax, which operates flights between Johannesburg's Lanseria Airport and Hoedspruit, Sun City, Vilanculos, Inhambane and Madikwe.
1 Jun 2008	We are now covering flights from Johannesburg Lanseria to Sun City Pilanesburg.
1 Jun 2008	A review of the Kulula in-flight magazine, Comic Life.
31 May 2008	A review of a Kulula flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg. We're still Kulula fans.
31 May 2008	We've added photos of the CNA and ABSA at domestic departures of Cape Town International Airport.
29 May 2008	Time to start planning those London to Cape Town holidays. Qatar Airways is offering (by some distance) the cheapest flights from London to Cape Town.
29 May 2008	Air Namibia is cheapest from Cape Town to Windhoek (beating its only competitor on the route, SA Express).
25 May 2008	We are now covering flights from Johannesburg to Richards Bay (although there's not much to cover - only SAA flies the route).
21 May 2008	Planning a vacation to London? For the third survey in a row, Emirates are offering the cheapest flights from Cape Town to London.
20 May 2008	Want to fly from Johannesburg to Mauritius? In our latest survey Air Mauritius is offering the cheapest return flight.
20 May 2008	As part of our continuous quest to cover all flights to South Africa, we are now covering flights from Kigali to Johannesburg (only Rwandair Express offering direct flights).

17 May 2008	We now have glossary definitions for the full set of economy class, business class and first class tickets.
15 May 2008	Want to travel from Australia to South Africa? Cheapest flight from Perth to Johannesburg is currently AUD1289 with Malaysia Airlines.
14 May 2008	We've updated our Johannesburg to London flights page to include the departure times for flights. Interestingly, only Emirates flight EK762 offers the option to leave during the day (1410).
13 May 2008	We've spruced up our pages on flights from Johannesburg to Dar es Salaam and flights from Johannesburg to Nairobi (so if you want to climb Kilimanjaro, check them out!).
11 May 2008	A reader asked us for the cheapest round-trip tickets from Singapore to Johannesburg, Cape Town to London, London to Singapore.
10 May 2008	We've updated our webpages focussing on Singapore - Cape Town flights and Singapore - Johannesburg flights.
8 May 2008	Virgin Atlantic Airways have announced that they are offering special flight prices from London to Johannesburg for Nationwide passengers stranded in London. Premium economy class is from £499 and £259 for economy class.
7 May 2008	We had a look at flights from Johannesburg to London and Qatar Airways is cheapest.
5 May 2008	In the greatest news for Durban since the SA Telegraph company landed the east coast cable there in 1879, Emirates has announced that from 1 December 2008 they'll be flying direct flights from Dubai to Durban.
4 May 2008	The death spike in website traffic. We looked at web traffic from Nationwide airline and illustrate the spikes in traffic when it was grounded and when it went into liquidation.
3 May 2008	Some great value specials from KLM, including flights from London to Cape Town, London to Johannesburg.
3 May 2008	With the dust starting to settle the hard questions need to be asked - when did Nationwide become aware that they were bankrupt? And did they continue accepting people's money for tickets after that point?
2 May 2008	The 56th anniversary of the world's first commercial jet flight. The British built de Havilland Comet flew from London to Johannesburg on the 2nd May 2952.
2 May 2008	First news24, now eturbonews are busted filching a SouthAfrica.to photograph of a Nationwide plane, without permission.
1 May 2008	We've resurveyed return flights from Cape Town to London and Emirates are still cheapest (Qatar Airways second cheapest, Lufthansa most expensive).
1 May 2008	We've just received some circulars regarding the provisional liquidation of Nationwide airline, and at first sight it seems that creditors cant expect more than 22c for each rand owed (although we're not experts at liquidations).
30 Apr 2008	News24 are busted using a SouthAfrica.to photograph without permission.
29 Apr 2008	1time airline are advertising some fantastic flight specials for May and June, especially between Cape Town and Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, Johannesburg and George, Johannesburg and East London, East London and Cape Town.
29 Apr 2008	Struggling since they were grounded last year, Nationwide Airlines have ceased operations.
26 Apr 2008	Flight prices are the highest they've been in a year. And if that's not bad enough bus prices and car rental prices are also on the up.
26 Apr 2008	Wikus and Dietrich Joubert die and Hannes Steyn is seriously injured when their Cessna 210 Centurion crashed into a tree and burst into flames as they attempted to take off from north of Pretoria (the Krosa Sand quarry at Krokodilspruit).
26 Apr 2008	A Netstar helicopter crashes at Randburg Airport, bursting into flames and killing the occupants. The helicopter was responding to a stolen vehicle case.
24 Apr 2008	We are slowly building up our glossary of definitions. The latest is a definition of a first class seat on a plane.
22 Apr 2008	SAA have announced a 3 day sale - got to book by 25 Apr 2008. However, we looked at some of the flight prices, and you may get better deals at Mango, Kulula and 1time airlines.
19 Apr 2008	SIA Solutions has implemented an automated weather observation system at Lanseria Airport.
17 Apr 2008	With the British pound strong against the Rand it's a good time for your family in the UK to come visit South Africa. British Airways is offering flight specials till 29 April, including £509 for flights from London to Cape Town.
16 Apr 2008	Wrenelle Stander, the Chief Executive Officer of Air Traffic and Navigation Systems (who are in charge of air traffic control into and out of South Africa), resigns. Peter Marais is acting CEO.
15 Apr 2008	The second definition in our new glossary of aviatic definitions is of "business class seats". We welcome input from our readers to assist in improving these definitions.
14 Apr 2008	The FAA is reporting concerns about the brain drain that South African Technical is experiencing. South African Technican (SAT) maintains and repairs aircraft for Comair, SAA (South African Airways), KLM, Lufthansa and Kulula).
13 Apr 2008	As the first in our glossary of definitions of airline terms, we define an airline reservation
12 Apr 2008	Oasis Hong Kong, the company whom Air Namibia are leasing a Boeing 747 from, have gone into liquidation.
10 Apr 2008	First time we've heard of this - a couple's seats on a flight from Durban to Johannesburg with South African Airways were taken by imposters (who also helped themselves to the couple's Halaal meals). When the couple tried to check in they were told that they'd already boarded...eventually SAA got seats for them at the back of the plane. Scary that this happens.
1 Apr 2008	1time airline releases its results for the year ending 31 Dec 2007.
30 Mar 2008	We're covering all the gaps which weren't previously covered - we now have a dedicated page for South African Express flights (if there are still any airlines you think we've missed please let us know!).
29 Mar 2008	We're ashamed to say that, after almost two years of operations, we still didn't have a dedicated webpage featuring Airlink flights (formerly known as SA Airlink). The situation has now been rectified - please have a look at our webpage focussing on Airlink flights.
30 Mar 2008	Zambian Airways starts operating 4 weekly flights between Livingstone and Johannesburg
30 Mar 2008	Some good news for our brothers and sisters in Namibia - we are now covering flights from Walvis Bay to Cape Town (all one of them with South African Express) and flights from Windhoek to Cape Town (all two of them with Air Namibia and South African Express).
21 Mar 2008	Mango Airlines are running a special for flights booked and paid for via the money market counters at Shoprite and Checkers stores (including Checkers Hyper). Also there's a competition to win free car rentals with Tempest Car Hire, accommodation with Southern Sun and of course plane tickets with Mango.
17 Mar 2008	Mango Tempest sale. The king of cheap orange flights has joined up with the queen of cheap car rentals in South Africa to give us "Cloud 15 specials" - you can get 15% off Mango flights (conditions apply) by typing a promotional code in, and there are a bunch of cheapest car rentals through Tempest car hire.
19 Mar 2008	Paris Hilton lands at OR Tambo International Airport. They flew from the USA to London, then from London to Johannesburg. Paris is with her boyfriend Benji from the band Good Charlotte - the band is kicking off its world tour in Johannesburg.
14 Mar 2008	British Airways flight BA 147 travels from London to Kolkata (India) without any passengers. The Boeing 777 only had a captain and a co-pilot on board.
12 Mar 2008	Ever wondered why flights from Botswana to South Africa are disinfected but not those from South Africa to Botswana? A member of the Botswana parliament posed the question and now we all know. In reply Mr Frank Ramsden said that the reason why flights from Botswana to South Africa are disinfected is to kill mosquitoes, which may be carrying malaria to South Africa. Given that most airports in South Africa are not in malaria zones, there is no need to disinfect on the way back.
9 Mar 2008	A Norwegian passenger faints on an SA Airlink flight from Cape Town to Nelspruit, reulting in the pilot returning to Cape town. Shortly before fainting the passenger, who was sitting next to the toilet, had been complaining of an intense smell coming out of it.
8 Mar 2008	We are continuously looking to expand our footprint, and are now covering flights from Nelspruit to Maputo (Mozambique), as well as the return trip from Maputo to Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport.
8 Mar 2008	India's Jet Airways has decided not to start operating flights between Mumbai and Johannesburg, as it had previously indicated.
7 Mar 2008	OpenSkies, the new British Airways airline operating flights from Paris to New York, are calling their business class section "Biz" and offering an a la carte menu.
7 Mar 2008	Air Namibia is bailed out to the tune of N$538.6m in the previous financial year, with a further $150m bailout planned for the 2008/2009 year.
2 Mar 2008	In line with our strategy to provide a comprehensive coverage of the South African car rental industry, we are now providing coverage of Tempest Car Hire, which is owned by the Imperial Group. In our coverage we include details of their Dreamfields venture with Mango Airlines.
1 Mar 2008	Well done Kulula.com! After deciding in July 2007 to exclude airport taxes from their flight prices (very much a step backwards in our view) Kulula have finally (and quietly) come to their pricing senses and decided to include airport taxes in their flight prices again...well done :)
26 Feb 2008	We've revamped our webpage on flights from Cape Town to Sydney to include the flight path and a fuller list of airlines flying the route (let us know if we've left anybody out).
1 Mar 2008	SAA is now operating daily flights between Johanneesburg to Entebbe (Uganda), the only airline operating non-stop flights on this route. The flights from Entebbe to Johannesburg leave at 0715 in the morning and arrive in Johannesburg at 1000am, in time for connecting flights.
1 Mar 2008	We're not just about flights here at SouthAfrica.to, but rather about assisting with all types of South African travel. We've set up dedicated pages for Avis, Budget and Europcar bookings - and we've now expanded our offering to include Hertz South Africa car rentals.
29 Feb 2008	We set up a Europcar page yesterday, and today we've extended this theme by establishing a webpage dedicated to assisting with Budget car rental bookings.
27 Feb 2008	In our efforts to provide you with the complete travel package we are slowly building up our expertise in car rentals (you may have noticed the surveys we've been doing). In addition to covering Avis car hire, we now have a dedicated webpage for Europcar South Africa.
29 Feb 2008	Some flight specials from the UK - KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, advertised this morning a special for a flight from Bristol to Johannesburg, from £457; and a KLM flight from Aberdeen to Johannesburg is from £467.
28 Feb 2008	In a survey by the Geneva-based Airports Council International, Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport is voted the best airport in Africa, Cape Town Airport second best in Africa, Durban Airport is third best in Africa and Nairobis (Kenya) has the fourth best airport in Africa. Incheon in South Korea was voted the best airport in the world.
27 Feb 2008	Nationwide Airlines, the only privately held airline in South Africa, announces that it is selling a 51% stake to the African General Equity Group.
27 Feb 2008	1time Airline turns four years old today - happy birthday, and keep 'em cheap flights coming.
27 Feb 2008	It's on its way - the first Holiday Inn Express will be opening in Cape Town on 1 March 2008. The 175-roomed hotel is situated in St George's Mall.
26 Feb 2008	Kulula announces its intention to launch Kulula Wealth, in a JV with Liberty Life. Some wags may argue that there's no need to sell life insurance to passengers of an airline which is so fanatical about safety, and that it would be more appropriate for Nationwide passengers to be purchasing life insurance (after all it was a Nationwide flight which lost an engine in November 2007). Caveat - don't necessarily expect Kulula Wealth's life insurance to always be the cheapest, as their flights have been cheapest only 11% of the time in the last year.
24 Feb 2008	Acting on a tip-off from police in Sao Paulo (Brazil), police at OR Tambo International Airport discover 120kgs of cocaine in the cargo hold of an SAA plane flying from Sao Paul to Johannesburg.
24 Feb 2008	Swiss International Airlines are adding their 6th flight from Zurich to Johannesburg, between 30 June 2008 and 6 September 2008.
23 Feb 2008	Are SAA and Mango Airlines playing fair? In its interim results Comair says that the state-owned carriers (SAA and Mango Airline) are pricing unprofitably. Our evidence suggests that although Mango Airlines has over the last 2 months been pricing aggressively, it is in fact Nationwide Airline which over the last year has been at the forefront of low pricing in South Africa.
22 Feb 2008	A pilot reader of ours is trying to get a charter flight going from Johannesburg to George on the Easter weekend (21st March leaving from Johannesburg for George and returning at the end of the Easter weekend).
16 Feb 2008	We want to meet our readers' complete package of needs, from finding a flight to getting in to bed. In pursuit of this aim, we've recently been setting up pages focussing on hotels (Southern Sun, City Lodge hotels, etc...). The latest addition is a page about Avis car hire.
15 Feb 2008	Many of our readers want to read our back issues, and so we've made a list of flight surveys we've carried out and put them all in one place. The list is of South African flight surveys, between Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
14 Feb 2008	The Dubai to Cape Town flight page has been updated to reflect Emirates flights, which commence from the 30th March 2008 (and will open up loads of opportunities for South African tourists).
14 Feb 2008	Are any of our readers good kissers? Ryanair are offering free airline tickets to the 50 best kissing couples on Leicester Square in London - grab a partner and be there at 1pm on Valentine's day.
12 Feb 2008	Ronald Ntuli is appointed deputy Chairman of the Comair board, and Lloyd Cromwell Griffiths retires from the board. Comair has licence to fly the British Airways brand in South Africa, and owns Kulula Airlines (South Africa's first low cost carrier).
11 Feb 2008	Lanseria Airport have renewed for a further 5 years, Airport Media's exclusive advertising contract.
10 Feb 2008	Being a site which aims to expose the cheapest flights, we thought we should also try expose the cheapest hotel price. So we've dug deeper into the Southern Sun Hotel group, and set up a dedicated page for the Formula 1 hotel.
8 Feb 2008	We've recently set up a dedicated page about the Sun International Hotel Group, which got us thinking about what Sun International is without Sun City - so we decided to set up a further webpage dedicated to Sun City hotel reservations.
6 Feb 2008	Now that we're covering the Southern Sun Hotel group, it only makes sense to also cover its spinoff - Sun International, which owns a plethora of hotels and resorts in southern Africa.
5 Feb 2008	In our neverending quest to find pockets of value for you, our reader, we have set up a webpage focussing on the Southern Sun Hotel group, which owns a number of brands in South Africa - Formula 1, Holiday Inn Garden Court (now rebranded as Garden Court Southern Sun), Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts, Southern Sun Hotels and Resorts, SunSquare and StayEasy.
2 Feb 2008	Our market research has indicated that the same readers who are interested in finding the cheapest flights are often interested in finding reasonably priced accommodation. We constantly want to please our readers, and so in addition to our coverage of the Protea Hotel group we are now covering City Lodge Hotel reservations. We have also set up specialised pages looking at each of the brand owned by the City Lodge Hotel group - the Town Lodge hotel, the Courtyard Hotel and the Road Lodge Hotel. The group has hotels throughout South Africa catering to all tastes.
31 Jan 2008	We were starting to feel a bit one-dimensional, so we stepped out of our comfort zone and set up a page on Protea Hotel reservations, an iconic hotel group in South Africa.
27 Jan 2008	Ever wondered what it is you're seeing as you're coming in to land? Here's a series of landmarks you see as you approach Cape Town Airport travelling in a southerly direction (photos taken from the port side of the plane).
19 Jan 2008	Review of an SAA flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg.
16 Jan 2008	As part of our continuing mission to cover India flights, we are now covering flights from Johannesburg to Mumbai, India (Bombay)
9 Jan 2008	British Airways have launched a subsidiary called OpenSkies which will be operating flights from New York to Brussels and New York to Paris, under the EU-USA open skies agreement reached in 2007. OpenSkies Airline will be operating Boeing 757s from the British Airways fleet.
5 Jan 2008	We continue our quest to cover flights from all parts of the UK to South Africa. We now have a page for the good folk of Bristol to find cheap flights from Bristol to Johannesburg (and of course some of them may wish to visit Cape Town, so we've listed airlines operating flights from Bristol to Cape Town). We've also set up our usual standard page of flights from Bristol to South Africa.
4 Jan 2008	Nationwide airlines was far and away most regularly the cheapest airline in South Africa in 2007. Looking at the 6 individual flight routes between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg - Kulula airline, Mango airline and Nationwide airline each managed to be cheapest on 2 of the routes. The best time to fly was end July/August. See it all in our 2007 cheapest flights survey.
4 Jan 2008	Even if you're staying in Newcastle in the UK (England) we'll find a way home for you. Have a look at our upgraded list of airlines flying from Newcastle to Johannesburg and airliners flying from Newcastle to Cape Town. For those who haven't made up their minds where in South Africa they want to go to, here's a more general page focussed at flights from Newcastle to South Africa.
3 Jan 2008	We will assist all South African expats in getting from the UK to South Africa, and are busily covering the entire United Kingdom. We've improved our coverage of flights from Manchester to Johannesburg and flights from Manchester to Cape Town, and have set up a dedicated page for flights from Manchester to South Africa.
3 Jan 2008	We have continued working on improving our coverage of flights from the UK to South Africa, and are not leaving the Scottish out of the equation. We've polished our existing webpages which cover flights from Glasgow to Cape Town and flights from Glasgow to Johannesburg, and added in a summary page covering flights from Glasgow to South Africa.
1 Jan 2008	Want to make your way from Aberdeen to South Africa? We've now set up a dedicated page to help you find the cheapest flights from Aberdeen to Cape Town. At the same time we've polished our flights from Aberdeen to Johannesburg page and added a general page for flights from Aberdeen to South Africa.
1 Jan 2008	Happy New Year to all our readers - we wish you only blue skies and tailwinds in 2008. Here's a summary of what we thought the South African aviations news headlines were in 2007.
31 Dec 2007	If you're not close enough to London there may be more attractive options of getting to South Africa from Edinburgh. We've spruced up our sites for flights from Edinburgh to Johannesburg and flights from Edinburgh to Cape Town, and also established a dedicated page for flights from Edinburgh to South Africa.
29 Dec 2007	One of the lessor-known reasons to visit South South Africa is its stunning golf courses. If you want to kill some time in Johannesburg, why not shoo' the breeze at the Johannesburg Woodmead Golf course. To whet your appetite, here are some photos of the Johannesburg Woodmead Golf Course.
29 Dec 2007	We've spruced up our coverage of flights from Birmingham to Cape Town, and flights from Birmingham to Johannesburg; and created a dedicated page for flights from Birmingham to South Africa.
28 Dec 2007	At last, the British Airways January sale - the biggest British Airways sale of the year - flight prices have been announced.
28 Dec 2007	Cheap flights India...our sister site has done a massive expansion into Indian terrority. It's now covering flights to Mumbai, Delhi and many other cities in India.
28 Dec 2007	With so many South Africans living in London, we recognise the imporatance of getting flights from the UK to South Africa right. We've upgraded our sites for flights from London - flights from London to Cape Town, flights from London to Johannesburg and flights from London to Durban. To boot, we've added a webpage covering flights from London to South Africa.
24 Dec 2007	Spice things up with a flight from London to India (our sister site is covering trips from London to Delhi or London to Bengaluru , flights from London to Chennai, flights from London to Kochi, flights from London to Mumbai, flights from London to Kolkata - previously known as Calcutta).
24 Dec 2007	SouthAfrica.TO - our website is still brewing up a storm and has made further gains in its ranking (as reported by Alexa, an independent international rating body).
22 Dec 2007	When you're on holiday and things go pear shaped it can cost a lot of cake...that's where travel insurance come in. We've set up a webpage setting out the ins and outs of travel insurance for those thinking of travelling to, from or within South Africa.
20 Dec 2007	The UK's Silverjet airline have launched an online training academy, teaching you about its flight prices, airports and aircraft configurations.
18 Dec 2007		What better way to spend your holidays than mulling over where to spend the next one! Here's some holiday recommendations for 2008.
18 Dec 2007	Fancy visiting the land of Shane Warne (and Flight Centre) - hop onto a flight from Johannesburg to Sydney.
17 Dec 2007	From the 30th March 2008, Emirates will be operating flights from Dubai to Cape Town...opening up a range of cheap flights for Capetonians and those travelling to the mother city.
17 Dec 2007	We've upgraded our South African travel site rankings to include the various coachliners (Greyhound does best). The strongest improvements come from SouthAfrica.TO, Kulula and Interlink Airline; whilst Flight Centre continues to drop in ranking.
17 Dec 2007		Travellers from Johannesburg to Pietermaritzburg are fed up with South African Airlink (the only airline servicing Pietermaritzburg), and are appealing to other airlines to start flying from Johannesburg to Pietermaritzburg.
17 Dec 2007		easyJet airways are operating their first flights out of Birmingham, from Birmingham to Geneva.
17 Dec 2007	There's only one airline (SA Airlink) operating flights from Pietermaritzburg to Johannesburg, but since the Msunduzi officials have been clamouring for a new airline to fly from Pietermaritzburg, we thought we'd better watch this spot.
16 Dec 2007	Air Namibia has taken delivery of 2 Boeing 737-500s for use in flying from Windhoek to Johannesburg , Cape Town and Luanda. The Boeings have been leased for 5 years from Capex Leasing Ltd.	Want to visit Botswana (which is apparently safer than South Africa)? Make a flight reservation from Johannesburg to Gaborone
15 Dec 2007	Nationwide up and flying. Nationwide are pretty much up and running again, and in the meantime the SACAA has appointed a new CEO - Colin Jordaan.
14 Dec 2007	Following the departure of Captain Colin Jordaan to head up the SACAA, SAA has appointed Jonny Woods, as its Head of Flight Operations. Woods joined SAA in 1974, becoming a training Captain in 1981 and Chief Pilot in 1998.
14 Dec 2007	Great news for New Yorkers and Capetonians - from June 2008, Delta Airlines are operating non-stop flights from New York to Cape Town (if you like the photo to the right of Clifton Beach, Cape Town, see the full collection of photos of Clifton and Camps Bay beaches).
14 Dec 2007		See ancient Roman ruins, World War II sites and bask in the Meditteranean - hop onto a flight from Johannesburg to Tripoli.
14 Dec 2007		Fancy a ski trip in the French Alps, perhaps Courchevel? Make a flight reservation from Johannesburg to Geneva and then take a bus, train or car to Courchevel.
13 Dec 2007	Indulge in your fantasies in Las Vegas by making a flight reservation from Johannesburg to Las Vegas. It's also close to Death Valley and the Grand Canyon.
12 Dec 2007	Sun, sea and sand in abundance. Take a flight from Johannesburg to Male (Maldives).
12 Dec 2007	Think ahead to South Africa's winter - might be worthwhile hoping on a flight from Johannesburg to Miami, and soak up the sun on their famous beaches. If you're travelling from Cape Town, here's where to make your flight reservation from Cape Town to Miami. If you are wanting to see some of South Africa, take a trip by bus from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth
11 Dec 2007	Fancy a trip to the big apple? We've upgraded our coverage of booking flights from Johannesburg to New York and booking flights from Cape Town to New York.
10 Dec 2007	Get a taste of the East. We're now covering flight reservations from Johannesburg to Bangkok. Or if you're looking for old Europe, try our new coverage of flights from Johannesburg to Lisbon. Or a bit of meditteranean Africa, and hop onto a flight from Johannesburg to Tunis (Tunisia).
10 Dec 2007	Feel like a trip from Durban to Port Elizabeth by bus? Here are some options for this trip.
7 Dec 2007	After a tumultuous week, Nationwide are flying again. They begin limited flights this weekend from Johannesburg to London and back, and from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
7 Dec 2007	If you want to see some of the scenery between Durban and Capetown, then catching a bus on this route may be for you.
6 Dec 2007	With high oil prices and flight prices some people want to take the bus rather than fly. We've upgraded our webpage to include not only flights, but the options for bus trips from Bloemfontein to Cape Town.
6 Dec 2007	SouthAfrica.TO more popular than 1time, Nationwide or Flight Centre, according to an independent international rating agency.
6 Dec 2007	Got some time on your hands and looking for a cheaper option than flying? Taking a bus is less sexy than flying but often cheaper, more climate friendly and sometimes not that much longer. An option is booking a Greyhound bus trip.
5 Dec 2007	In the midst of the controversial grounding of Nationwide Airlines, the South African Civil Aviation Authority's boss has resigned.
4 Dec 2007	Mango summer sale - caveat, to qualify for the special flights must be purchased together whith a return ticket (and the price of the return ticket is not guaranteed). The summer sale covers flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town (R199 for the one leg), flights from Bloemfontein to Cape Town (R199 for the one leg), flights from Cape Town to Durban (R99 for the one leg) and flights from Johannesburg to Durban (R99 for the one leg).
4 Dec 2007	Are we going to see Silverjet Airline flying to Johannesburg? Silverjet Airline announced the purchase of 2 Boeing 767 Extended Range Aircraft, capable of operating flights from London to Johannesburg, Delhi, New York or Dubai. The aircraft will be delivered in March 2008.
4 Dec 2007	Let the good times roles - Silverjet airline December sale. In addition, Silverjet airline are offering a 5% discount if you use our promotional code.
3 Dec 2007	KLM have announced their December 2007 flight specials from the UK.
3 Dec 2007	Nationwide saga update - some statements released by them and their suspension is upheld.
2 Dec 2007	South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority has some explaining to do, as to why it wasn't working together with Nationwide Airlines to prevent the grounding of its aircraft, and why it timed the grounding to 30 November when it was aware of the issues in September.
1 Dec 2007	The Baz Bus is one of the strong drivers of backpacker tourism in South Africa, offering tourists the options of travelling from Johannesburg to Durban to Cape Town (and more) on a hop-on hop-off basis. We've set up a page to help you with your Baz Bus bookings.
1 Dec 2007	Airline prices have come off their highs, and easyJet is still offering the cheapest flight from London to Paris (but National Express coaches are cheaper).
30 Nov 2007	Shock as all Nationwide aircraft are grounded.
25 Nov 2007	Flight and coach prices have skyrocketed - Eurostar's the best option for getting from London to Paris.
25 Nov 2007	We have set up a webpage featuring Venture Air, a new airline operating flights in South Africa (Cape Town, Plettenberg Bay, Port Elizabeth, Sun City, Johannesburg and the Kruger Mpumalanga).
25 Nov 2007	Now that we've got a comprehensive coverage of all the major cities in South Africa, we're starting to cover the smaller spots. In line with introducing Venture Air, we've added flights from Sun City to Johannesburg (Pilanesberg), flights from Plettenberg Bay to Johannesburg, flights from Plettenberg Bay to Cape Town and flights from Plettenberg Bay to Port Elizabeth.
25 Nov 2007	We are now covering flights from Glasgow to Ireland West Knock. The only airline flying the route is bmibaby, starting February 2008. And while on the topic of flights from Glasgow, we are also covering flights from Glasgow to Norwich (Flybe airline is the main operator on this route).
24 Nov 2007	An open letter to Glenn Orsmond , expressing our outrage at the stunt pulled by the Kulula kukes at Boksburg swimming pool - it's demeaning to the entire industry, and makes a mockery of the Civil Aviation Authority's surf-lifesaving regulations.
24 Nov 2007	Don't you just love it when South Africa beats Australia - SouthAfrica.TO is more popular than Flight Centre (an Australian company), according to the Alexa rankings of websites in South Africa.
23 Nov 2007	The Civil Aviation Authority require flight attendants to be able to morph into Baywatch lifeguards should a plane ditch into water. Are they smoking?
18 Nov 2007	A review of SAA flight SA333 (the same flight which on the 2nd of November got its nose wheel stuck in the sand at Cape Town airport). SAA's meals have improved, but their seating sux (they didn't place Mommy, Daddy and Baby together).
14 Nov 2007	Mango flights special - TODAY - 14 Nov 2007 - Mango are offering 5000 flights during November and December at R169 all inclusive - book now to avoid being dissapointed.
13 Nov 2007	A Flybe airline flight on its way from Birmingham to Stuttgart was forced to turn back when fumes wafted into the cabin.
13 Nov 2007	We have updated our webpage on Flybe Airline flights to include all flight routes that the airline is taking.
13 Nov 2007	It feels like all we're writing about these days are airline incidents - in a followup to Nationwide losing an engine and an SAA pilot executing a handbrake turn at Cape Town Airport, a Kulula flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town had to turn back after the oil pressure dropped in one of its engines.
10 Nov 2007	We're now covering flights from Mumbai to Johannesburg.
10 Nov 2007	For the third week running, BA are offering the cheapest flight from London to Paris.
10 Nov 2007	For the second week in a row, BA are offering the cheapest flight from London to Paris.
7 Nov 2007	Nationwide flight BE 723 had to return to Cape Town airport to conduct an emergency landing, after an engine exploded off the wing on take-off.
7 Nov 2007	British Airways are offering the cheapest flights from London to Paris.
3 Nov 2007	British Airways flights special - gotta book by the 13th November 2007 to take advantage of them.
2 Nov 2007	After being instructed to execute a sharp turn at Cape Town International Airport, an SAA plane ran off the runway and got stuck in the sand.
27 Oct 2007	Last time it was British Airways, this time it's easyJet - cheapest flight from London to Paris.
27 Oct 2007	ACSA - this couldn't-care-less monopoly continues to fleece the South African public, with the backing of a failed regulatory regime.
27 Oct 2007	1time, SouthAfrica.TO & Interlink have shown massive improvements in their Alexa rankings (unfortuanately British Airways flights have dropped in ranking).
26 Oct 2007	We had a look at the aircrafts owned by South African carriers (1time, Kulula, Nationwide, Mango airline, British Airways and South African Airways).
25 Oct 2007	We're now covering flights to Windhoek. We've started off by detailing the airlines operating flights from Cape Town to Windhoek and flights from Johannesburg to Windhoek. If there are any other flight routes to Windhoek you're kean on having covered, let us know and we'll work on putting it up.
22 Oct 2007	Namibia is so similar to South Africa that there's more arguments for the two being one country than keeping them seperate. For this reason we've decided to merge with Namibia and incorporate them in our website. We now have a page dedicated to Air Namibia flights. Let us know what you think.
22 Oct 2007	Craig and Jody dream of going on a European vacation - the hitch is that they don't have the money, and we're helping by drumming up publicity for their cause. Donations have come streaming in, and they've now saved up half of what they need. In this article, we help them find the cheapest flight from Cape Town to London or Paris.
7 Oct 2007	In honour of the rugby world cup 2007 we've upgraded our webpage which focusses on flights from Paris to Johannesburg.
2 Oct 2007	London to Cape Town flight prices have come down, with almost all the airlines recording drops in their flight prices since the last survey.
28 Sep 2007	Act quick - low flight prices from London to Johannesburg in January. In our latest comparison of flights prices from London to Johannesburg, average flight prices have dropped from £1208 (11 September survey) to £604.
27 Sep 2007	Newsflash: SouthAfrica.TO has broken into the top 900 websites in South Africa. It is ranked 871, which is a higher ranking than 1time or Nationwide airlines. Also see our press release on SouthAfrica.TO's Alexa ranking.
27 Sep 2007	We've compiled a list of what South Africans want from Mango airlines for Christmas. Top of the wish-list are flights to Port Elizabeth, followed by flights to East London and flights to George. Student discounts are also in demand. Will Father Mango deliver?
24 Sep 2007	SouthAfrica.TO breaks into the top 1000 South African websites. With a 29% increase in traffic ranking over the last week, SouthAfrica.TO is now more popular than 1time, Nationwide airlines or Interlink airlines.
22 Sep 2007	Warning: no cheap flights from London to Paris. National Express coach and Eurostar train are looking relatively attractive.
21 Sep 2007	Mango's black-hat advertising. Mango airlines emailed sent us an advert encouraging us to "fly Mango for less than R90"...which proved to be impossible. The end result is Mango losing credibility. This is all so unnecessary for an airline which does actually have competitive prices (there are other reasons we avoid flying Mango airlines)
20 Sep 2007	Average flight prices from London to Cape Town are very high. British Airways flights are no longer cheapest, this time the honour belongs to a KLM flight booked on the (wait for it...) Air France website!
22 Sep 2007	Owning to popular demand, we have established a speciliast page listing the options available to travel business class from London to New York.
21 Sep 2007	We've completely updated our webpage on flights from London to Nice. We've included our top ten things to do in Nice, details of the airport at Nice and how to get to Nice using the Eurostar train or National Express.
20 Sep 2007	OneTime airline wins, Mango airline loses. The battle for South African website traffic.
19 Sep 2007	We've added in the time of the last flight from Johannesburg to Durban, for each airline which flies the route (1time, Kulula, SAA, British Airways, Mango and Nationwide).
18 Sep 2007	Kulula airline advertisement is banned. A Kulula.com email advertisement distributed on the 9th July 2007 has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, for not properly displaying the fact that its excludes airport taxes.
18 Sep 2007	Mango airlines business class option is up and running. Dubbed "Top Class", it offers added flexibility of schedule (leave late now or leave late later), luggage limits of 30kg and a meal on board.
18 Sep 2007	We've added a page describing Flight Centre South Africa (which is an Australian company), and its history since its first office opened in Sydney in 1981.
17 Sep 2007	Silverjet airline has increased the frequency of its flights between London and New York Newark from 1 a day to 2 flights a day. The new flights will be in a Boeing 767. Shortly after this, Silverjet airline made a further announcement that it will be operating flights from London to Dubai.
17 Sep 2007	It has been announced that Emirates flights between Dubai and Johannesburg are having their frequency increased to 3 a day on Mondays (from February 2008), Fridays (from 28 October 2007) and Saturdays (from 28 October 2007)
16 Sep 2007	From the 7th December bmibaby flights are being operated from Birmingham to Madrid (bmibaby is a low cost carrier operating flights in, to and from the UK).
16 Sep 2007	We are now covering flights from Birmingham to Madrid (Spain) - the really good news is that bmibaby is flying direct from Birmingham to Madrid from the 7th December 2007. And while we're doing flights from Birmingham to Spain, we also covered flights from Birmingham to Barcelona.
15 Sep 2007	Air France have announced their September sale of flights from London Heathrow and London City airports.
12 Sep 2007	Prices of flights from London to Johannesburg have gone through the roof. If you haven't already purchased your plane ticket, you are going to pay a lot for it.
11 Sep 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: In this comparison of airline website rankings, South African Airways shows massive improvements in website traffic. Mango airline is the only one to show a decrease in its website ranking (probably because it hasn't given tickets away for a while).
6 Sep 2007	Not only does the Eurostar train offer the fastest way of getting from London to Paris and emit the least amount of emissions, but now it will also be carbon-neutral.
5 Sep 2007	We've added in a piece to our Ryanair flights site, about how it is achieving these ultra-low ticket prices - hopefully some tips Kulula, 1Time, Mango and Nationwide can pick up on.
5 Sep 2007	British Airways are running a September sale and there's also a KLM Break Away sale going on in September 2007. And if you're not thinking that this year is flying by, here are the Thomsonfly 2008 flight sales.
30 Aug 2007	ACSA - time to dismantle this couldn't-care-less monopoly.
30 Aug 2007	KLM flights and Air France flights are no longer the cheapest! British Airways flights are the cheapest flights from London to Cape Town (return). Average prices of flights from London to Cape Town have come down.
30 Aug 2007	List of Thomsonfly flights (Thomsonfly is an airline based in the UK which operates flights to holiday destinations).
29 Aug 2007	Scandanavian Airlines Norge (SAS Norge) have always operated flights from London to Oslo, but only from London Heathrow. Yesterday, the first SAS Norge flight from London City to Oslo took to the airs. SAS Norge will be flying double daily flights from London City to Oslo, from Mondays to Fridays.
28 Aug 2007	Bermuda has a thriving tourism and financial services sector. We are now covering flights from London to Bermuda. We're already covering flights from Glasgow to Alicante, but have now added in flights from Manchester to Alicante and flights from London to Alicante.
28 Aug 2007	If you're in Glasgow and looking for an alternative European holiday, we are covering flights from Glasgow to Alicante (Spain), flights from Glasgow to Bodrum Turkey), flights from Glasgow to Bourgas (in Bulgaria), flights from Glasgow to Corfu (Greece), flights from Glasgow to Paphos (in Cyprus) and flights from Glasgow to Dalaman (Turkey).
27 Aug 2007	Emirates flights are the cheapest flights from London to Johannesburg (return). Average prices of flights from London to Johannesburg have gone up slightly.
26 Aug 2007	Good news - there are cheaper flight prices from London to New York (on average), with airlines like Eos and Silverjet having dropped their flight prices. British Airways flights are no longer cheapest from London to New York - the honours go to Zoom.
24 Aug 2007	List of the most popular airline websites in South Africa by Alexa ranking. South African Airways is the most popular airline website in the country - no surprise there, but we were surprised that Mango Airlines is the second most popular website in South Africa.
24 Aug 2007	SouthAfrica.TO is now officially launching a free weekly newsletter focussing on flight price comparisons and the South African aviation industry.
16 Sep 2007	Warning: record flight prices from London to Paris - and amongst these record flight prices a British Airways flight is cheapest...at ninety pounds!
9 Sep 2007	British Airways flights are the cheapest from London to Paris.
2 Sep 2007	It's a bad time to fly from London to Paris, as prices of flights from London to Paris have skyrocketed - National Express coach is much cheaper.
26 Aug 2007	Although British Airways flights have gone down in price, it's still cheaper from London to Paris with National Express (bus and ferry).
24 Aug 2007	Kang Pacific Airlines is setting up shop in the United Arab Emirates, and will be based in the most easterly of the 7 emirates - Fujairah. Kang Pacific Airlines joins four other airlines which are based in the UAE - Air Arabia,Etihad Airways, RAK Airways and Emirates airline). It will operate flights inter alia to the UK's East Midlands Airport.
21 Aug 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Flight prices from London to Cape Town, KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) are offering the cheapest flight from London to Cape Town (via Amsterdam). As part of their partnership, Air France is offering the same deal. British Airways have kept their flight prices from London to Cape Town at the same level as in the previous survey.
19 Aug 2007	We are now covering a lot more of the beautiful Irish skies - flights from London to Dublin, flights from Manchester to Dublin as well as flights from Glasgow to Dublin.
19 Aug 2007	London to Paris - bus is cheapest; Prices of flights from London to Paris have spiked to over 300 pounds for 3 of the airlines (KLM, British Airways and Air France). Going by train is some 155 pounds. Remember though that busses take a lot longer than planes.
18 Aug 2007	An Atlasjet Airline flight (a Turkish airline) was hijacked on its way from Cyprus to Istanbul. The pilots were forced to make an emergency landing in Antalya, on the meditteranean coast of Turkey.
16 Aug 2007	On the 19th September 2007 (Wednesday) SAA will operate its first direct flight from Johannesburg to Libreville (Gabon). And of course there is also a return flight from Libreville to Johannesburg (two flights a week).
15 Aug 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flight prices from London to Johannesburg, average price of flights from London to Johannesburg has decreased. Etihad is the cheapest, large drops in prices for Nationwide, Lufthansa and Emirates.
13 Aug 2007	We review our 1Time flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town. We compare the 1Time flight to our Mango flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg and 1Time comes out tops.
13 Aug 2007	We review our Mango flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg. We wont be flying Mango in a hurry again, as it is simply too cramped to enjoy the flight. We'd rather pay R100 extra and fly 1Time, Nationwide or Kulula airlines.
13 Aug 2007	A short review of the Chevrolet Aveo LS, the hire car we used as a run-around in Johannesburg.
12 Aug 2007	The ACSA wireless internet option is the best in South Africa? We weigh ACSA up against Mugg & Bean, Southern Sun and the Melrose Arch Hotel.
10 Aug 2007	A review of the Melrose Arch Hotel in Melrose, Johannesburg. They need to fix up the nails sticking out of their skirting boards and work on their poor internet services.
9 Aug 2007	Avis beats Hertz to the bottom of the pack, as we try to figure out which of the two car rental agencies are most dangerous when it comes to their knowledge of car babyseats.
9 Aug 2007	A light aircraft has crashed in Johannesburg (Birdhaven) - its 2 occupants are seriously injured.
7 Aug 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from London to Cape Town , KLM & Air France offer the cheapest flight from London to Cape Town.
6 Aug 2007	Kulula.com has announced that it is planning on starting up a Kulula cellphone operation within the next year.
5 Aug 2007	AirFlights.TO survey: Flight prices from London to New York. British Airways have been in the news for all the wrong reasons (fuel surcharges saga), but are now making up by offering the cheapest flight from London to New York.
5 Aug 2007	We are now covering flights from Johannesburg to Maputo (SAA and LAM are the only airlines flying this route).
3 Aug 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from London to Johannesburg , Iberia Airways is cheapest, KLM close behind.
31 Jul 2007	With our website bedding down nicely and large numbers of regular readers, we publish the first SouthAfrica.TO press release.
31 Jul 2007	We have expanded the SouthAfrica.TO website to include flights from Johannesburg to Tel Aviv.
29 Jul 2007	The Phillipines are in the process of launching a new airline - Pacific Pearl Airways.
28 Jul 2007	If you thought that protectionism is restricted to South Africa - the German government is considering capping Emirates flights to Germany to 63 a week to protect Lufthansa.
27 Jul 2007	It's got a name - Virgin Blue has named its planned long-haul airline (operating flights from Australia to the USA) V Australia.
26 Jul 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from London to Cape Town, Qatar Airways is cheapest.
27 Jul 2007	Wondered what is happening to SAA's surplus Boeing 747s? SMINTair, the world's "first" airline which allows smoking is planning on acquiring and reconfiguring them for flights between Dusseldorf and Nagoya, Japan.
22 Jul 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from London to Johannesburg, Emirates is cheapest...again!
19 Jul 2007	Is Mango Airlines playing fair? A full review, looking at Mango's past pricing of flights and how these compare to 1Time, Nationwide & Kulula.
17 Jul 2007	Kulula joined the rogues gallery last week when they made a decision to exclude airport taxes from their flight prices. Be very careful when comparing Kulula's advertised prices against those of other airlines - you have to first add in airport taxes.
11 Jul 2007	Tempest & SixT car rental are offering special July prices for car rentals, from R149 a day for their weekender package.
10 Jul 2007	Forget the Kulula sale - Mango and 1Time are cheaper (and Kulula's website wont work!): R299 (excluding taxes!) for flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg, R199 (excluding taxes!) for flights between Durban and Johannesburg (and other destinations too). Special is only for the 10th July and stops once seats run out.
9 Jul 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from London to Johannesburg. Emirates comes in cheapest.
7 Jul 2007	Join the SAA class action suit - if you were affected by the 2005 pay-dispute strike, and were flying from a European Union country you might be entitled to compensation.
5 Jul 2007	Hotels, Cars and planes - my trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town - Holiday Inn Garden Court, Melrose Arch, Opel 1.5 and a British Airways flight.
4 Jul 2007	Great news for lovers of Plettenberg Bay - SA Airlink is planning on operating flights from Johannesburg to Plettenberg Bay by September.
3 Jul 2007	Should Jewish pilots have to fly on Saturdays (or Christian pilots on Sundays)? An interesting discussion from an online forum for pilots, where most commentators suggest pilots should have to fly on any day of the week.
3 Jul 2007	Excellent meal aboard a BA flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and some kudos for Cape Town International - security has tightened, wireless internet is working well and they've got automated check-in machines (just a pity they only work for SAA)
2 Jul 2007	SAA are running a flights special on domestic South African flights from the 3rd July until the 6th July, and on international flights from the 6th July until the 9th July.
1 Jul 2007	Yesterday, 30 Jun 2007, there was a terror attack at Glasgow Airport. It is not clear whether there will be any tightening of security at South African Airports (the USA is tightening security at its airports).
30 Jun 2007	SouthAfrica.TO survey: Comparison of flights from Johannesburg to London
30 Jun 2007	AirFlight.TO survey: Our sister site, AirFlight.TO presents its inaugural survey, a comparison of cheap flights from London to Paris.
29 Jun 2007	We have gained some insight into why African international flights are the most profitable part of SAA's operations. This week Zimbabwe contributed to SAA's coffers by flying an advance party of 15 to the African Union summit in Accra...in A class of course!!
28 Jun 2007	A top South African wheelchair athlete has not been able to eat or sleep properly from the stress of SAA losing his wheelchair. In trying to locate the wheelchair, SAA put the phone down on his wife's ear on several occasions.
28 Jun 2007	The heaviest snowfall in Gauteng in decades has resulted in delayed flights at Johannesburg Airport.
24 Jun 2007	We all know about the cramped conditions aboard modern aircraft, so it's little surprise that a riot broke out on board a British Airways flight.
24 Jun 2007	British Airways worst accident occured on the 10th September 1976 when a Trident 3B (British Airways flight 476) collided mid-air with a Douglas DC-9. Read about this and other interesting British Airways facts at British Airways flights.
22 Jun 2007	The joys of automated check-ins, Cape Town Airport has better security than Johannesburg Airport and SAA's free mile-high showers, read about it on the SAA flight to Cape Town.
21 Jun 2007	We review Johannesburg Airport's Avis Car rental - fortuanately for them they didn't have baby seats to contend with this time round!
20 Jun 2007	Lose weight now - ask SAA how! We report on our mealless SAA flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg, the new automated check-in and how an air hostess got "eina sore" on the flight.
19 Jun 2007	Will the flight beat the All Blacks? They arrived in Durban this morning, after a gruelling trip from Hamilton.
18 Jun 2007	We have raved about how British Airways offer a better ride than SAA, and we still love BA, but even with BA there's room for improvement - today we write about how British Airways have lost a bit of their gloss.
15 Jun 2007	In 2004 Civair left 7400 passengers out-of-pocket when it dumped its plans to start flights from Cape Town to London (Stansted). Now it appears that Civair plans to resurrect its dreams of flying between Cape Town and London. We hope it doesn't all end in tears again.
14 Jun 2007	Thank you fellow South African taxpayers for subsidising my flight on the national carrier :) Mango Airlines trumps Kulula special.
10 Jun 2007	Four of SAA's executive committee are considering pre-empting retrenchments and resigning.
6 Jun 2007	SAA restructuring has missed a few bases. SAA's restructuring plans are a good start, but weaknesses in the marketing, pricing, logistics and accounting departments have been overlooked - not to mention the lack of focus of the board.
5 Jun 2007	SAA's restructuring moves into its second phase, Ngakula unveils his plan in response to Erwin's cracking of the whip on the 3rd May.
3 Jun 2007	Cheap Flights Survey: Comparison of flights from Johannesburg to London . British Airways emailed us about their flight prices and they also came in cheapest in our survey - well done British Airways!
25 May 2007	my SAA flight to Cape Town (bet I surprised you with that one!). Nice company, ACSA's security maintains its standards, a reflection on the Holiday Inn's food, and the best hotspot deals at OR Tambo International and the Holiday Inn.
24 May 2007	my SAA flight to Johannesburg. I had a good flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg with South African Airways, nice views of snow snowy mountains on the coastal belt...and SAA have perfected the art of tasteless cooking!
23 May 2007	Airport security in South Africa is being beefed up. If you're travelling internationally, watch that your aerosols, liquids and gels don't get confiscated (although if ACSA cant police the laptop rule are they really going to be able to now expand their functions to cover aerosols, liquids and gels?). And what's next, will we have to take our shoes off like in the USA?
20 May 2007	Africa is an aircraft graveyard. We examine accident rates in Africa versus the other continents, look at the latest fatal plane crashes in South Africa, and compare South African Airways' and Kenya Airways' fatal crash statistics.
15 May 2007	Avis car rental endangers lives - how the incorrect installation of a baby seat by an Avis staff member endangered our baby's life.
14 May 2007	1time flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg - we had a pleasant flight to Johannesburg with 1time airline, which reminds me of the USA's SouthWest Airline.
11 May 2007	In life it's the little things that count. What gives British Airways the edge is not any one revolutionary thing which they're doing, but rather the polished manner in which they do every little thing.
10 May 2007	Does British Airways offer the comfiest flight? British Airways aren't the cheapest, but this article's author believes the comfiest ride in South Africa is on British Airways flights.
9 May 2007	"Want a R1 Mango Airline ticket?- come to our website and we'll prove (again) that we cant handle high volumes of web traffic..." was their ultimate advertising message.
6 May 2007	It's a long flight for the New Zealand rugby players to South Africa , crossing 8 hours of time zones - 20 hours of flying for the Canterbury Crusaders and 15 hours for the Auckland Blues.
4 May 2007	Erwin cracks the SAA whip...the clock is ticking for South African Airways, who've been given until 2 May 2009 to get their act together, or else face privitisation.
4 May 2007	Are flights to Port Elizabeth viable, from a commerical point of view? Alec Erwin thinks the route is marginal, whilst 1time airline seems to be finding the route particularly lucrative.
2 May 2007	Springbok crushes All Black - the problem of large airline passengers infringing on the rights of the passengers next to them.
1 May 2007	We have expanded SouthAfrica.TO's coverage of flights from the United Kingdom to South Africa. New directories cover flights from Manchester to Cape Town, flights from Manchester to Johannesburg, flights from Edinburgh to Cape Town & flights from Edinburgh to Johannesburg.
29 Apr 2007	It's not just Judge President Raymond Zondo who's reeling in the air miles, hot on Raymond's heels is Minister of Safety & Security, Charles Nqakula, who's just been on a trip to Britain to try convince them that he's doing his job.
28 Apr 2007	In our weekly Cheap Flights Survey, Nationwide Airlines takes us completely by surprise by offering the cheapest flight from Cape Town to Durban. We also report on how South African Airways staff are raking in the millions, how British Airways prevents Richard Branson from upsetting their passengers; and our frequent flyer award goes to the Judge President of the Labour Court, Raymond Zondo (flying at the South African taxpayers' expense).
27 Apr 2007	Mail & Guardian are fooled. In an article they wrote today, the Mail & Guardian erroneously reported on a "new airline price comparison tool" for South Africans. SouthAfrica.TO puts matters into perspective.
26 Apr 2007	Fancy paying R70 a flight ? A glimpse into the future of low cost carriers in South Africa; with an analysis of how Skybus Airlines, a USA airliner, is managing to charge $10 a flight.
25 Apr 2007	South Africa's low cost carriers? An analysis of the low cost carriers in South Africa and whether Nationwide Airline is a low cost carrier.
24 Apr 2007	On Friday the 27th April China Eastern Airlines will fly its inaugural non-stop flight from Shanhai to Johannesburg (ok, there is an hour stopover at the Maldives but in airliner lingo this still qualifies as a nonstop flight). Also on Friday, 1time airline relaunches its Johannesburg - George flights.
23 Apr 2007	Turkish Airlines has announced that from the 15th September 2007 it will be relaunching its flights from Turkey to South Africa. The airline will be operating flights from Istanbul to Johannesburg to Cape Town.
19 Apr 2007	Carbon neutral flight update - USA's Delta Airlines joins the fray
10 Apr 2007	An article about SouthAfrica.TO
7 Apr 2007	SA Airliners are behind in online strategy
31 Mar 2007	The Amazing Stuffup - Air Tanzania
25 Mar 2007	Kulula & Mango - most sought-after South African airliners
23 Mar 2007	SunAir announces R1.5bn financing (but doesn't identify who)
22 Mar 2007	Bomb threat on Mango Airlines
20 Mar 2007	Firefly Airlines vs Mango Airlines
15 Mar 2007	Kulula's dodgy specials
10 Mar 2007	Mango Airlines is finally top of the search heap
22 Feb 2007	SAA concedes inferior aircraft design (but gives me a good ride)
10 Feb 2007	I was bribed by South African Airways
10 Feb 2007	Photos of SAA flights
10 Feb 2007	AirAsia X set to launch in Malaysia in July
10 Feb 2007	Grand China Airlines
11 Feb 2007	Barbados's new LIAT Star Airlines
27 Jan 2007	British Airways plane seating
27 Jan 2007	BA cancels London-Johannesburg flights
26 Jan 2007	South African Airways' reply
26 Jan 2007	Flights Maputo to Cape Town
25 Jan 2007	ACSA-lutley useless
22 Jan 2007	South African Airways' poor service
21 Jan 2007	Mango airlines R1 more expensive than Kulula
20 Jan 2007	Qatar to South Africa flights increased
19 Jan 2007	Kulula Mauritius Flights
19 Jan 2007	Kulula's low prices are higher than Mango's
19 Jan 2007	Mango Airlines traffic
18 Jan 2007	South African Airways complaint
17 Jan 2007	United States to South Africa - 2 for 1 special
16 Jan 2007	Silverjet consider South Africa route
15 Jan 2007	Gulf Air's cheap flights
14 Jan 2007	Flying home in tears
12 Jan 2007	Firefly Airlines - new Malaysian Airliner
11 Jan 2007	Nationwide becomes a low-cost carrier
12 Jan 2007	Feeder Airlines - Sudan - a new Airliner operating in southern Sudan.
12 Jan 2007	MDLR Airlines - new Indian Airliner
10 Jan 2007	Air Kerala - proposed new airline in India's Kerala State.
9 Jan 2007	India's Jet Airways planning South Africa route
8 Jan 2007	The airlines price war - comparison of flight prices
20 Mar 2007	AxeJet Airlines - brothel, airliner or smelly deo?
10 Feb 2007	Flights from Johannesburg to Paris
10 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam
10 Feb 2007	Flights from Johannesburg to Bamako
10 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Auckland
10 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Livingstone
10 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Mauritius
9 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Ndola
9 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Windhoek
9 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to London
9 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Harare
8 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Juba
6 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Mthatha
6 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Sydney
6 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Perth
6 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Maputo
4 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Lagos
3 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Port Elizabeth to Kimberley
3 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Kimberley
3 Feb 2007	Flights from London to Durban
3 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Tel Aviv to Durban
3 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Manchester
2 Feb 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam
30 Jan 2007	Cheap flights between Cape Town and Durban - good show 1Time
30 Jan 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Abu Dhabi
29 Jan 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to London
29 Jan 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to Atlanta
29 Jan 2007	Cheap flights from Johannesburg to New York
29 Jan 2007	Cheap flights from Cape Town to New York
30 Nov 2006	"On the costs side there is going to be pain, and a lot of it. Even with revenue growing by as much as 10 percent, we are troubled by costs." Khaya Ngqula of South African Airways.
30 Nov 2006	"On the costs side there is going to be pain, and a lot of it. Even with revenue growing by as much as 10 percent, we are troubled by costs." Khaya Ngqula of South African Airways.
7 Nov 2006	Mluleki Thokozani Zulu (42), of Mkuze in KwaZulu-Natal, appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court where magistrate FS Fani postponed the case to December 14. Zulu was checking in at Comair Airlines at the airport when he was asked if he had any inflammables in his baggage. Zulu replied in jest: "No, I only have a few bombs." (IOL)
9 Oct 2006	SAA's low-cost airline is to be launched in November 2006. “There are really two issues here. SAA’s low-cost airline has to operate at true cost. We don’t want SAA subsidising it. And secondly, it can’t sell below cost. Then there will be no worries,” 1time CEO Glenn Orsmond. Jacqui O’Sullivan, SAA spokesperson said that the name of the airline would only announced once it was launched, but for licensing purposes SAA has called it the ultimate low-cost airline (Tulca). Reports have speculated that the airline would operate as Mango. Tulca will be a wholly owned subsidiary of SAA and will lease aircrafts from the national airline. Tulca would have it’s own board and chief executive.
6 Oct 2006	A flippant remark sparked by irritation at limited leg-room resulted in a 32 year-old Gauteng man, Mncedisi Eric Maluleka of Naledi Extension 2 in Soweto being arrested. About 20 minutes into the 11.11am Johannesburg-bound flight Maluleka allegedly complained about not having enough leg room. When the flight attendant told him there was nothing she could do about it, the Maluleka allegedly asked "What will you do if me and my friend hijack this plane?" The incident caused chaos at Cape Town International Airport, with the Johannesburg bound flight having to be re-routed back to Cape Town (the pilot having alerted airport emergency services) resulting in a number of delayed flights. After the aeroplane landed it was directed to a spot as far away as possible from the terminals. A Special Task Force surrounded the aeroplane and no passengers or crew were allowed to disembark. Passengers waited for more than an hour before security staff boarded the flight and arrested the 2 men. Passengers were then allowed to disembark, and saw the 2 men kneeling handcuffed on the tarmac. Sniffer dogs were called to check the passengers' hand luggage before they were bused to the international terminal where trauma counselling was offered. Finally, 6 hours after they had first boarded flight MN 120, the passengers reboarded the same aircraft and flew to Johannesburg - without the 2 arrested men. Eric Venter, joint chief executive of kulula.com, said: "We're working on what it cost us. In hard costs, it was perhaps R20 000 to R30 000 in extra fuel burn, having to turn the plane back, etc. The biggest cost was re-accommodating passengers on other flights. But the real cost is the reputation of the airline."