Mango trumps Kulula flight special
14 June 2007. I love it when my fellow taxpayers subsidise my flights...until I think about it a bit more deeply. South Africa's an interesting country. The hard-working factory worker pays his taxes to the government and those same tax Rands find their way to the high-rollers flying in the the two government owned and subsidised airlines - South African Airways and Mango Airways. OK, they're not all high-rollers but it's an easy bet that, even those who sit behind the business class curtain aren't living in shacks.
Kulula.com flights special
An email from Kulula arrived in my inbox at the bandwidth friendly time of 2310, with the subject "come fun with us from R199". That sounded like a price I could work with and I was planning a trip to Johannesburg (from Cape Town). However, just like when previous Kulula specials were investigated, there are cheaper flights out there.
Mango Airlines trumps Kulula.com
Kulula's R199 price turned out to be for flights from Johannesburg to Durban :( However, they did advertise R299 for flights from Cape Town to Johannesburg :) Unfortuanately the R299 Kulula flights were at odd hours :( Happily, Mango Airlines offered flights for R301 at reasonable hours...which got me thinking about what a good feeling it is to be getting something back for all those tax Rands I'm paying :)
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