Given that I have just paid some R2000 in return tickets from CPT to JNB, I thought I'd have a look to see whether I could indeed find these remarkably cheap flights. Luckily, Mango has a nifty feature which allows one to search for 1-month low rates (use this to find cheap Mango flights).
Cheapest flight I could find
Comments
JNB to DUR
R311 (3 Sep 2008 flight date)
Equal to advertised low price.
DUR to JNB
R311 (plenty)
Equal to advertised low price
JNB to CPT
R499 (4 Oct 2008)
Higher than advertised low price
CPT to JNB
R539 (5 Mar 2009)
Higher than advertised low price
CPT to DUR
R435 (30 Sep 2008)
Lower than advertised low price!
DUR to CPT
R546 (plenty)
Higher than advertised low price
CPT to BLOEM
R588 (plenty)
Equal to advertised low price
BLOEM to CPT
R588 (plenty)
Equal to advertised low price
Unfortuanately all of the JNB to CPT and CPT to JNB flights were higher than their advertised rates (is that covered by the asterisk * next to the advertised price?)...but I was astonished to find a CPT to DUR flight going for less than the the advertised rate! If you're flying JNB-DUR or CPT-BLOEM you'll be happy to know that the Mango advertised prices are still around.
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