Flight Centre South Africa
Flight Centre South Africa is an offshoot of the Australian company, Flight Centre Limited (which has its global head office in Brisbane, Australia). It is a leading offline travel agent in South Africa with over a hundred stores in the country (another large travel agent in SA is Club Travel) Flight Centre South Africa are well known for their undertaking to beat any flight price a competitor provides (providing that it's available).
Flight Centre specials & news
17 Oct 2010 |
Flight Centre purchases GapYear.com, a specialist in global gap year planning, and plans to expand the Gapyear business, establishing dedicated sites for travellers in the Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. |
Brands of Flight Centre South Africa
Flight Centre South Africa has several major brands:
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Student Flights (with its website at www.studentflights.co.za)
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Travel Associates
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Flight Centre retail (with its website at www.flightcentre.co.za)
Flight Centre's South African outlets
Flight Centre has South African outlets in Bloemfontein, Cape Town (see travel agents in Cape Town), Durban (see travel agents in Durban), Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Richards Bay and Rustenburg.
Contact details
You can phone Flight Centre South Africa at 0860 400 727. Flight Centre South Africa's website is www.flightcentre.co.za.
The Head Office is on the 3rd floor, Heathway Centre, Beyers Naude Drive Blackheath, Johannesburg.
Turnover of Flight Centre South Africa
In the 2004/2005 financial year Flight Centre South Africa closed US$365 million worth of transactions, or 5% of the total worldwide transactions which Flight Centre closed in that year (US$6.8 billion). The year 2005 saw the first ever year-on-year decline in Flight Centre's profits. Flight Centre South Africa faces the serious challenge of disintermediation in the travel industry, with an increasing number of passengers dealing directly with airlines through their websites rather than going through a travel agent.
Website traffic
The graph below gives an indication of the website traffic which Flight Centre South Africa is receiving:
Flight Centre South Africa's MD
28 May 2010 |
Andrew Stark is appointed General Manager of Corporate Traveller, Flight Centre's corporate brand. Based at Flight Centre's Head Office in Johannesburg, Andrew’s role will be to oversee marketing, product, business development, customer relationship and account management as well as the day- to-day running of the Corporate Traveller brand. |
2006 |
Flight Centre South Africa appoints Janine Salame as MD. |
2004 |
Dayle White is appointed Managing Director of Flight Centre. |
Jobs at Flight Centre
To get a job at Flight Centre South Africa, email your CV through to recruitment.centre@flightcentre.co.za or phone 011-778-1676/7. Bear in mind that you'll be working long hours - 8am to 6:30pm are considered standard. However, Flight Centre does have branches in most of South Africa, and it is also possible (but not guaranteed) to get transferred to a Flight Centre in Australia, New Zealand, the UK or the USA. You don't need travel experience to apply for a job at Flight Centre, but passion for travel and some personal travelling experience will give you a leg-up.
Want to travel?
Employees of Flight Centre are known to receive travel discounts, on both domestic and international flights.
Flight Centre's vision
Flight Centre's vision is "To be the world's most exciting travel company, delivering an amazing experience to our people, customers and partners."
Flight Centre's old logo
References
SouthAfrica.TO more popular than Flight Centre, 1time or Nationwide |