Tips for buying cheap flights in South Africa

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Tips for buying cheap flights in South Africa

For all who travel to South Africa you must take into account some key details to get the best prices:

1- When booking domestic flights, book your outbound and return flight seperately, looking for the best deal on each individually.


2- Get a Kulula credit card and join their Jetsetters Club, the Kulula moolah you earn can be used to offset the price of Kulula airline tickets. Book all your tickets through the Jetsetters club to earn more moolah. For cheaper Mango flights, get a Vodacom credit card. Where airlines have frequent flyer programmes sign up for them.


3- Don't forget to check the prices of Interlink Airlines (for Johannesburg-Cape Town and Johannesburg-Durban flights).


4- When booking Mango, 1time or Kulula flights, use their facility to search for 1-month low rates, to find the cheapest flight price in a month. Mango calls its "1 Month Low Rates", on 1time's site it is labelled "best fare search" and on Kulula's site it is labelled "Bargain Browza".


5- When needing to change a booking, check what the costs are of doing it on the internet versus doing it telephonically. We accidentally entered a male passenger as female, and 1time's call centre staff corrected it for free (it would have cost R90 making the change on the internet).


6- Where airlines have codeshare arrangements (i.e. they sell tickets on each other's flights) check the prices on all the airlines' websites. For example, SAA sells Qantas Airline tickets for flights from Johannesburg to Sydney - check both the SAA site as well as the Qantas site (the prices are not always the same).


7- Generally speaking, the longer the time-lag before your flight the cheaper the tickets (airlines sell their cheapest tickets first), however, this does not always hold (as if tickets are not selling, airlines generally drop their prices and flight prices can get cheaper). Booking a long time before has the added advantage of it being more likely you'll find reasonably priced tickets on the exact dates you want to fly.


8- If possible be flexible with your leaving and return dates. For domestic flights; Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday travel is generally cheaper. For international flights leaving South Africa on Sundays to Thursdays and returning Tuesday to Thursday is generally cheaper. Avoid booking on Fridays, on the days before public holidays, and before the start or at the end of school holidays (also keep an eye out for local events, e.g. flying to Cape Town just before the Argus Cycle tour is expensive). August is generally a cheap month in which to fly local South African flights.


9- When booking domestic South African flights, check the prices of the low cost airlines (Mango, Kulula & 1time) , as well as the full service carriers (Interlink, British Airways & SAA). For international flights, always check the prices of Emirates flights.


10- When booking Mango flights, check the price of Mango Flex tickets - especially during high demand dates they are sometimes cheaper than Mango's normal flight prices.

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