
Kulula.com is cheapest |
SouthAfrica.TO survey |
It's good to see a flight price under R500 again, even if it was just one airline - well done Kulula.com! We compared flight prices from Durban to Johannesburg on the evening of the 5th September and Kulula.com offered the cheapest economy class ticket at R489.
Flights from Durban to Johannesburg |
Bus & train trips from Durban to Johannesburg |
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British Airways economy class |
965 |
Baz Bus (7 day pass) |
1200 |
Interlink Airline economy class |
548 |
Citiliner bus |
160 |
Kulula.com economy class |
489 |
Greyhound bus |
225 |
Mango Airlines economy class |
no flights |
Intercape bus |
175 |
1time Airline economy class |
612 |
SA Roadlink bus |
125 |
South African Airways economy class |
829 |
Translux bus |
190 |
British Airways business class |
2013 |
Premier Classe train |
1730 |
The cheapest business class ticket from Durban to Johannesburg was with Interlink Airline (R1298).
The cheapest bus from Durban to Johannesburg on the 5th September is SA Roadlink, at R125. Personally, I would feel safer paying R200 and rather taking the Shosholoza Meyl train.
Board |
Destination |
Board Date |
Time |
Arrival Date |
Time |
Carrier |
Class |
Fare |
DUR |
JNB |
15 Sep 2008 |
08:30 |
15 Sep 2008 |
15:30 |
SA Roadlink |
LUXURY |
175 |
DUR |
JNB |
15 Sep 2008 |
11:00 |
15 Sep 2008 |
18:00 |
SA Roadlink |
BUDGET |
175 |
DUR |
JNB |
15 Sep 2008 |
14:00 |
15 Sep 2008 |
21:00 |
SA Roadlink |
LUXURY |
175 |
DUR |
JNB |
15 Sep 2008 |
20:00 |
16 Sep 2008 |
04:00 |
SA Roadlink |
BUDGET |
125 |
DUR |
JNB |
15 Sep 2008 |
22:00 |
16 Sep 2008 |
05:00 |
SA Roadlink |
LUXURY |
175 |
It's only once I started reading blogs that I realised how many USA students visit southern African countries each year (and they seem to like to write about it). Jayne caught a flight from Detroit to Amsterdam, from Amsterdam to Johannesburg (KLM?), where they experienced South Africa's early 2008 power failures in a Backpackers Lodge. The next day they took an eight hour bus trip from Johannesburg to Gaborone (where they stayed in graduate flats at the Univesity of Botswana).
After advertising the "Hottest back to school fares", the United Kingdom Advertising Standards Authority commented that the adverts "appeared to link teenage girls with sexually provocative behaviour and was irresponsible and likely to cause serious or widespread offence." Peter Sherrard of Ryanair responded that "It is remarkable that a picture of a fully clothed model is now claimed to cause 'serious or widespread offence', when many of the UK's leading daily newspaper regularly run pictures of topless or partially dressed females without causing any serious or widespread offence. At a time when TV and media advertising is full of suggestive and provocative images, Ryanair believes that there is nothing either irresponsible or offensive in the attached advert."
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