Mango's 4th in a row |
6 June 2008 flights |
I'm still missing Nationwide Airlines. This week we surveyed costs of travelling from Cape Town to Durban and Mango Airlines was easily the cheapest at R623.
Flights from Cape Town to Durban |
Bus trips from Cape Town to Durban |
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British Airways |
1200 |
Baz Bus (7 day pass) |
1020 |
Kulula.com |
952 |
Citiliner coach |
380 |
Mango Airline |
623 |
370 |
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Greyhound coach |
485 |
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1time Airline |
sold out |
SA Roadlink coach |
399 |
South African Airways |
1186 |
Translux bus |
510 |
Mango's 4 in a row
This is the fourth survey in a row that Mango have been cheapest on this flight route:
Flight date |
Flight route |
Cheapest Airline |
Average flight price |
Most expensive airline |
6 Jun 2008 |
Cape Town to Durban |
Mango R623 |
R990 |
British Airways R1200 |
25 Apr 2008 |
Cape Town to Durban |
Mango R960 |
R1297 |
SAA R1593 |
14 Mar 2008 |
Cape Town to Durban |
Mango R733 |
R1096 |
Kulula R1496 |
1 Feb 2008 |
Cape Town to Durban |
Mango R550 |
R826 |
British Airways R1100 |
Mango advertising 1lifedirect
Whilst checking Mango Airline's flight prices I noticed that Mango is advertising 1lifedirect insurance on its site - buy your life insurance before your flight just in case?
Bus prices creeping up
Bus prices have been slowly creeping up. A good barometer is the cost of the cheapest bus trip from Cape Town to Durban, which has climbed from R350 to R370 since our last survey.
City to City coach options
At R370 City to City offers the cheapest coach trip from Cape Town to Durban. Here are your options:
Departure City |
Destination City |
Full Price |
Departure Date & Time |
Arrival Date & Time |
Carrier |
CAPE TOWN |
DURBAN |
370.00 |
06 June - 06h00 |
07 June - 07h05 |
City to City coach |
CAPE TOWN |
DURBAN |
370.00 |
06 June - 17h00 |
07 June - 20h30 |
City to City coach |
Car Hire prices in Durban
Once you arrive in Durban you may wish to hire a car for the weekend from the 6th June 2008 to the 8th June 2008.
Imperial car rental (now Europcar) |
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513 |
343 |
333 |
479 |
332 |
331 |
386 |
As usual Tempest Car Hire was cheapest.
Hotel prices in Durbs
As usual Road Lodge Hotel (part of the City Lodge Group) offered the cheapest night's accommodate in Durban (we checked the night of the 6th June 2008):
Protea Hotel Edward |
City Lodge Durban |
Road Lodge Durban |
Holiday Inn Garden Court South Beach |
Holiday Inn Garden Court Marine Parade |
Southern Sun North Beach |
Suncoast Hotel & Towers |
1240 |
656 |
355 |
683 |
803 |
779 |
874 |
Travel blog of the week
Regular readers know that I like blogs with photos and I am not let down. Lisa, a Londonite visited compact Cape Town for a friend's wedding, staying on a vineyard in the Stellenbosch area (even though she's not a drinker - wise lady), and published stax of photos of ice-cream coloured colonial houses, and tells us how the streets are similar to San Francisco. Awesome blog, and she's a worthy winner of our blog of the week competition.
Cape Town airport under construction
Here's a photo of Cape Town airport as it looked in January 2008. Note all the construction going on. Behind the cranes towards the bottom right of the photo is the Table Mountain range. To the left of the photo is a South African Airways airbus. The photo was taken at the point of disembarking, between the plane and the landing staircase.
Foreign flying news
Ryanair flight quote of the week
"The most exciting route opportunity ever to be given to any independent airline operating into or out of Ireland." Tony Ryan in December 1985, after receiving a licence to operate Ryanair flights on the London to Dublin flight route from London's Luton airport (which crucially for his purposes, was not officially classified as a London airport - else he'd have to charge higher fares); as described in Michael O'Leary's biography by Alan Ruddock, "A Life in Full Flight
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