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Internal South African flights
I'm wondering if it is cheaper to purchase airline tickets for trips
within South Africa before leaving the US, or wait until there to buy the tickets? I'm considering 2 flights: Capetown to Durban, then Durban to Joburg. Fares on the US site of SAA seem high, while on the SA site of SAA seem quite reasonable, but can't be purchased on line without a SA-issued credit card. Does this mean that those good fares wouldn't be available to me (a US citizen) once in SA? Thanks for the advice! Cheers, Ann To email: replace 'REMOVE' with 'b' in email address. |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:47:53 GMT, Ann B.
wrote: I'm wondering if it is cheaper to purchase airline tickets for trips within South Africa before leaving the US, or wait until there to buy the tickets? I'm considering 2 flights: Capetown to Durban, then Durban to Joburg. Fares on the US site of SAA seem high, while on the SA site of SAA seem quite reasonable, but can't be purchased on line without a SA-issued credit card. Does this mean that those good fares wouldn't be available to me (a US citizen) once in SA? I bought internal flights happily from a travel agent within SA when I was there, there's probably a good chance a local TA would be able to help you out before you arrived too. Jim. |
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"Jim Ley" skrev i melding ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:47:53 GMT, Ann B. wrote: I'm wondering if it is cheaper to purchase airline tickets for trips within South Africa before leaving the US, or wait until there to buy the tickets? I'm considering 2 flights: Capetown to Durban, then Durban to Joburg. Fares on the US site of SAA seem high, while on the SA site of SAA seem quite reasonable, but can't be purchased on line without a SA-issued credit card. Does this mean that those good fares wouldn't be available to me (a US citizen) once in SA? I bought internal flights happily from a travel agent within SA when I was there, there's probably a good chance a local TA would be able to help you out before you arrived too. Jim. Check with kulula.com. They are an south african no-frills airline and offer fares that compare even with busses and trains on the same routes. As far as I know they are non-ticket and you can only make bookings through their website. Lars |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:48:20 +0200, "Lars Onsager Stordal"
wrote: "Jim Ley" skrev i melding ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:47:53 GMT, Ann B. wrote: I'm wondering if it is cheaper to purchase airline tickets for trips within South Africa before leaving the US, or wait until there to buy the tickets? I'm considering 2 flights: Capetown to Durban, then Durban to Joburg. Fares on the US site of SAA seem high, while on the SA site of SAA seem quite reasonable, but can't be purchased on line without a SA-issued credit card. Does this mean that those good fares wouldn't be available to me (a US citizen) once in SA? I bought internal flights happily from a travel agent within SA when I was there, there's probably a good chance a local TA would be able to help you out before you arrived too. Jim. Check with kulula.com. They are an south african no-frills airline and offer fares that compare even with busses and trains on the same routes. As far as I know they are non-ticket and you can only make bookings through their website. Lars Thanks, Lars. This is very promising! I hope their fligts & service are as good as the website. Do they fly in/out of convenient airports, or somewhere very far from the cities? Cheers, Ann To email: replace 'REMOVE' with 'b' in email address. |
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"Ann B." skrev i melding ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:48:20 +0200, "Lars Onsager Stordal" wrote: "Jim Ley" skrev i melding ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:47:53 GMT, Ann B. wrote: I'm wondering if it is cheaper to purchase airline tickets for trips within South Africa before leaving the US, or wait until there to buy the tickets? I'm considering 2 flights: Capetown to Durban, then Durban to Joburg. Fares on the US site of SAA seem high, while on the SA site of SAA seem quite reasonable, but can't be purchased on line without a SA-issued credit card. Does this mean that those good fares wouldn't be available to me (a US citizen) once in SA? I bought internal flights happily from a travel agent within SA when I was there, there's probably a good chance a local TA would be able to help you out before you arrived too. Jim. Check with kulula.com. They are an south african no-frills airline and offer fares that compare even with busses and trains on the same routes. As far as I know they are non-ticket and you can only make bookings through their website. Lars Thanks, Lars. This is very promising! I hope their fligts & service are as good as the website. Do they fly in/out of convenient airports, or somewhere very far from the cities? Cheers, Ann Hi Ann, Actually I don't know about this one, but I believe they use the bigger airports just like SAA and the others. Haven't used them myself yet, but we probably will when we go there later this year. Happy travelling! Lars |
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Kulula is a no-frills airline operated by Comair,
which also operates all the British Airways flights in southern Africa. Very reliable, and recently getting newer aircraft (MD-80's). They do fly from/to the major airports. Their car rental program is the least expensive one I know of, but available only to their passengers. |
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"Dave Patterson" wrote in message ... Kulula is a no-frills airline operated by Comair, which also operates all the British Airways flights in southern Africa. Very reliable, and recently getting newer aircraft (MD-80's). They do fly from/to the major airports. Their car rental program is the least expensive one I know of, but available only to their passengers. Kulula and "One Time" the latest discount carrier only fly to Capetown Durban and Jo'burg. Kulula also fly to PE. On normal flights SAA it is considerably cheaper to buy using a SA credit card. On the PE / Jo'burg flight my daughter saved nearly 50% by using my card. Now I think of it she saved !00% as I paid. Richard |
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