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Test your travel knowledge : What surprise did ground crew at Washington Dulles Airport get on Thursday, when flight SA 107 arrived? (see answer in the bottom line)

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Bingo*! Cruise Prices Slashed

Feeling lucky? Play Bingo before you get on the MSC Opera by choosing either the Bingo special (specify either inside, ocean view or balcony and get allocated a cabin within those categories anywhere on the ship) or Super Bingo (best price and any category could be assigned to you - it's a secret!).

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* Offer subject to availability at time of booking. Rates are per person sharing on a double basis, 3rd & 4th adult rates same as the 1st & 2nd passenger. Valid on new bookings only and cannot be combined with other promotions (with the exception of MSC loyalty club discounts). Kids sharing free subject to request and availability of 3 and 4 berth cabins. Due to the nature of this promotion, specific categories and cabin number may not be requested. Cabins will be allocated at MSC Cruises discretion. The cabin number will be announced within 2 weeks of your departure. Change of name is not permitted. Passenger names must be provided, as per passport, at the time of booking. Cancellation fees are as per standard booking terms and conditions. (Bookings made from the 17th-28th Feb 2014). T&Cs apply. E&OE.

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A reader said he was "shocked" at the flight prices from East London to Durban : Welcome to the world of low demand, low supply, high oil prices, high airport taxes and monopoly fares. Are there any other flight routes where you think the airfares are too high? Write to us to let us know.

Timothy wrote to us to say: "I stay in East London and am needing to go to Durban for a weekend. I was shocked to see that the return flight would cost me R3500. I usually check the cost of domestic flights against the cost of driving (using the distance and AA rate to come up with a number). For the first time ever, with only one person in the car, it actually comes out CHEAPER for me to drive. I am left with the crazy situation of choosing to "save" the time I would have spent in the car and spending the extra R1000 on the flight. What is going on?! How can these flights possibly be so expensive when it costs around R8000 or R9000 to fly all the way to London?...It just surprises me the prices we pay for flights in SA. I flew through the low cost carrier terminal in Kuala Lumpur a few years ago, and the idea made such a lot of sense to me. ACSA airports are great - but the taxes and surcharges? Crazy."

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The bottom line: Any scientists amongst our readers? I'd like to know if it's theoretically possible for a person to survive a flight when stowing away in the wheel well of an SAA flight from Johannesburg to Washington. Or are they doomed from the moment they climb in? SAA Washington Flight Surprise : Ground crew got the shock of their lives when they discovered a corpose in the landing gear wheel well of the SAA Airbus A340 at Washington Airport.