a relentless quest to expose the
cheapest flights
in, to and from South Africa
a relentless quest to expose the
cheapest flights
in, to and from South Africa
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 |
|
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.
|
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.
Name |
Comment |
|---|---|
emelda | am trying to book my father one way capetown to joburg. i cant seem to find any flight schedules for the week ending 24th february 2009. kindly help. could one of your agents try to help me please. am on 021 448 3101 |
emelda | am trying to book my father one way capetown to joburg. i can seem to find any flight schedules for the week ending 24th february 2009. kindly help. could one of your agents try to help me please. am on 021 448 3101 |
NICOLETTE | I ALWAYS FLY MANGO AND WAS VERY DISTURBED ON SATURDAY THE 2ND AUGUST THE LAST FLIGHT OUT FROM CAPE TOWN TO JHB DELAYED US FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS DUE TO A TECHNICAL FAULT. ALL OF US HAD TO WAIT IN THE WAITING AREA WHERE WE WERE GIVEN SOME REFRESHMENTS. I THINK WE WERE TOO TIRED TO EVEN BE ANGRY. WE LANDED IN JHB ROUND 11:50PM AND I ONLY GOT HOME AFTER TWELVE. dONT THEY CHECK THE PLANE BEFORE WE BOARD? |
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