Cheapest flights in 2007

Over the year SouthAfrica.TO carried out a multitude of flight surveys, and now it's time for the mother of all surveys - seeing which airline was overall cheapest during 2007.

Number of times each airline was cheapest

The following table shows in how many surveys each airline recorded the cheapest flights in 2007, allowing one to get a feel for which airline was most consistently the cheapest.

1time airline	British Airways	Kulula.com	Mango Airline	Nationwide airline	SAA
6	3	4	6	18	0

As can be seen from the table above, Nationwide is way in the lead in terms of offering the cheapest flight prices in South Africa. Out of a total of 37 surveys, 49% of the time Nationwide airlines offered the cheapest flight prices - a phenomenal performance. South African Airways was the only airline surveyed which never offered the cheapest flight prices.

Cheapest flight on each flight route

The following table shows the cheapest flight price we surveyed on each route during 2007, which airline achieved that flight price and when the flight price was surveyed. Note also that SouthAfrica.TO surveys check flight prices on Friday nights, as that's when many people want to travel.

Flight route	Airline	Flight price	Survey date	Flight date
Cape Town to Durban flights	Kulula.com	R 288	21 Jul 2007	17 Aug 2007
Cape Town to Johannesburg flights	Mango airline	R 301	23 Jun 2007	20 Jul 2007
Durban to Cape Town flights	Mango airline	R 477	30 Jun 2007	27 Jul 2007
Durban to Johannesburg flights	Nationwide airline	R 315	28 Jul 2007	24 Aug 2007
Johannesburg to Cape Town flights	Kulula.com	R 443	15 Jul 2007	10 Aug 2007
Johannesburg to Durban flights	Nationwide airline	R 402	7 Jul 2007	3 Aug 2007

Kulula.com, Mango airline and Nationwide airline share the honours with 2 cheapest flights each. The very cheapest flight surveyed was a Kulula.com com flight from Cape Town to Durban on the 17th August 2007, costing R288. Well done Kulula.com (and Comair, it's owner).

July/August was the cheapest time to travel

Cheapest time to fly was in July/August, with the cheapest flights recorded being from the 20th July to the 24th August.

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