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Flight UK to S Africa
Hi, my partner & me are looking to fly out end of Nov begining Dec,
flying back end of March ish. Ideally we would like to fly Manchester to Johannesburg but airports & dates are flexible. Grateful for any advice on how to get the cheapest fare. Also, what are the travel options between Africa & Madagascar? Is flying the only option? TIA |
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AFAIK there are no flights direct from Manchester, only through
Heathrow. I also don't know of any of the real low-cost airlines flying in here. The usual large airlines (SAA, Virgin, KLM, BA, Swiss, Lufthansa etc) all fly in, and so do several of the cheaper airlines such as TAAG Angolan Air, Air Gabon, Ghana Airlines etc. but these often require a short stay in their home country on the way in. I'm not a person who is scared of flying and I've done my share of third-world aircraft, but personally, I'd always prefer to spend a little bit more to fly a reputable airline. Try http://www.flysaa.com for special offers. If you play around with dates, you can often get very good pricing. Who knows, you may be lucky. Madagascar is best visited by air. You could take a ship, but they're infrequent, and time consuming. If your plan is to get to Madagascar, and not necessarily to South Africa, try Air France and Air Austral for flights from Paris. Regards, Marc On 3 Nov 2006 07:06:45 -0800, wrote: Hi, my partner & me are looking to fly out end of Nov begining Dec, flying back end of March ish. Ideally we would like to fly Manchester to Johannesburg but airports & dates are flexible. Grateful for any advice on how to get the cheapest fare. Also, what are the travel options between Africa & Madagascar? Is flying the only option? TIA |
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"Liz Leyden" wrote in message ... In message .com wrote: Hi, my partner & me are looking to fly out end of Nov begining Dec, flying back end of March ish. Ideally we would like to fly Manchester to Johannesburg but airports & dates are flexible. Grateful for any advice on how to get the cheapest fare. Since no-one else has answered, I'll suggest Trailfinders, who usually come up trumps, but aren't really Africa specialists. Might be worth also looking at Flightsavers, though I've never used them. I heard that one of the cheap independent airlines (maybe Fly Globespan?) was flying to South Africa, but I suspect it was Cape Town. I would also check with Trailfinders or other good agents. Using Trailfinder I paid about £420 to LHR to Cape Town flying out in September - about £200 for the fare and another £220 for taxes etc. This was the best deal that Trailfinders had when I bought it in about June. The flight was actually with LH to Frankfurt, then a codeshare on SAA - very good service etc. But later I saw direct flights (London to Cape Town or Joburg) for only a little more and from London it would have been worth the extra to save the time wasted on the Frankfurt connection. From Manchester your best options could be with a European carrier - KLM, LH, etc - anything to avoid a transfer in LHR. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Nationwide is a SAfrica carrier that flies between Gatwick &
Johannesburg. I did a quick look at a schedule similar to the one you described, out Nov. 27, returning March 7, and found the fare to be £480 + £137.20 in taxes per person. Here's the web site - you could try inserting dates that are specific to your plans and see what comes up: http://www.flynationwide.co.za/ |
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Marc Lurie wrote:
snip Try http://www.flysaa.com for special offers. If you play around with dates, you can often get very good pricing. Who knows, you may be lucky. snip Hi, my partner & me are looking to fly out end of Nov begining Dec, flying back end of March ish. Ideally we would like to fly Manchester to Johannesburg but airports & dates are flexible. Grateful for any advice on how to get the cheapest fare. Also, what are the travel options between Africa & Madagascar? Is flying the only option? TIA Hi, I'm coming in here late, I know - just got back from Mossel Bay, where the weather was miserable! Be careful when you check the prices of flights on SAA. I'm not sure if it's the same with the International flights, but I've often found a local flight on SAA, cheaper than the others, only to find when I go to pay for it that they haven't included the airport taxes and the price goes up dramatically. The other local airlines include the taxes in their price, so what you see is what you pay. As I said, I'm not sure if it's the same with the International rates - just be aware. Catherine -- == Not nuts, just a little eccentric == http://www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris |
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wrote:
Also, what are the travel options between Africa & Madagascar? Is flying the only option? TIA Hi All -- Direct flights from Johannesburg to Tana (Madagascar) on Airlink (formerly South African Airlink, once sub-contracted to SAA but went independent) Check them out on http://www.airlink.co.za Book and pay online. Cheers Kurt afrikatourism.blogspot.com |
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wrote: wrote: Also, what are the travel options between Africa & Madagascar? Is flying the only option? TIA Hi All -- Direct flights from Johannesburg to Tana (Madagascar) on Airlink (formerly South African Airlink, once sub-contracted to SAA but went independent) Check them out on http://www.airlink.co.za Book and pay online. Cheers Kurt afrikatourism.blogspot.com |
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