Mango's cheap flight ads
5 August 2008. I spotted a Mango Airlines advertisement in today's Business day advertising flights for:
JNB to DUR |
from R311 |
DUR to JNB |
from R311 |
JNB to CPT |
from R410 |
CPT to JNB |
from R410 |
CPT to DUR |
from R437 |
DUR to CPT |
from R437 |
from R588 |
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from R588 |
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).
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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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