How to Book Cheap Flights in South Africa

Air travel in South Africa has been made available to the average person in recent years with the introduction of “no frills” low cost airlines such as Kulula.com, 1Time Airlines, Mango Airlines and the new Velvet Sky Aviation.

To further make air travel available to the common person, all four of these airlines have made the booking process as simple to understand and easy to do as possible.

The simplest option for booking your cheap flight in South Africa is online via the airlines websites. Each of the airlines offers a search facility which allows travelers to search for flights between their chosen destinations on their specific dates. Many of the sites such as 1Time additionally allow travelers to search for the cheapest fares available for the month they wish to travel in, or to search for available flights the day before or after the chosen travel date.

Once you have chosen your selected flights, you are then required to provide your personal information which will be used to ensure your ticket is sued for travel only by you.

Once all the necessary information is input into the site, you are then offered a choice of payment options. The airline will then display the full cost of the flight including airport taxes and VAT which you can confirm or decline at this point.

Once the flight has been chosen and agreed to, payment needs to be made. To make booking a cheap flight even easier, sites such as Kulula.com allow users to make payments via e-bucks and electronic transfer payments as well as FNB cell phone banking. This means that you do not need to have a credit card to book a ticket.

Mango Airlines also allow passengers to book and pay for their tickets at the money market counters at Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets, to cater for the travelers without access to the internet.

Once the ticket has been paid for, the airlines issue a booking confirmation which must be printed out to be used at the airport to issue a boarding pass. The booking confirmation includes a booking reference number which can be used in the event of the flight needing to be changed or postponed. This booking reference serves the same purpose as a reservation number and is linked to all your personal information that you provided and cannot be used by anyone else.

There are also a number of travel websites available for travelers to use to compare flights and prices available from the low cost airlines such as travelsupermarket.co.za and bestflight.co.za. Here you will be able to search for the departure and arrival destination and preferred travel dates, and select from the number of flights available from the different airlines. The booking and payment options are the same as on the airlines websites, making booking a cheap flight in South Africa simple and convenient.

Whether booking at the money market counter at your nearest Shoprite or Checkers, booking directly with the airline on their website or via a travel booking website, the process is simple, easy to understand and convenient, making finding a cheap flight in South Africa quick and easy.

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