iker
Aug 9, 04, 9:42 pm
I'm trying to find a cheap airfare for an early morning flight departing Cape Town for Windhoek on 30-August-04 and continuing to Johannesburg on an early-morning flight on 07-September-04. Any advise?
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floris_FRA
Aug 10, 04, 4:15 am
I'm trying to find a cheap airfare for an early morning flight departing Cape Town for Windhoek on 30-August-04 and continuing to Johannesburg on an early-morning flight on 07-September-04. Any advise?
Where are you buying the ticket from? If you are in CPT, you should be able to get flights on SA for around R2282 (~$304). It's not going to get much cheaper than that as the flights are one-ways. Or go to one of the bucket-shops in CPT.
If you want to buy from outside of RSA - have you checked www.flysaa.com or www.airnamibia.com?
Where are you buying the ticket from? If you are in CPT, you should be able to get flights on SA for around R2282 (~$304). It's not going to get much cheaper than that as the flights are one-ways. Or go to one of the bucket-shops in CPT.
If you want to buy from outside of RSA - have you checked www.flysaa.com or www.airnamibia.com?
iker
Aug 10, 04, 6:33 am
I'd be purchasing the ticket from outside the States.
If I wait to get to Cape Town on the 26th of August and I try to purchase my ticket on the 26th for travel on the 30 of August, how much money will it cost. Right now, I'm getting an airfare of $440.00 roundtrip.
I also looked into roundtrips into and out of Windhoek from Cape Town, but the airfares, at least from here, tend to be priced right around the same.
Do you have a number of a bucket shop in Cape Town I could call?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If I wait to get to Cape Town on the 26th of August and I try to purchase my ticket on the 26th for travel on the 30 of August, how much money will it cost. Right now, I'm getting an airfare of $440.00 roundtrip.
I also looked into roundtrips into and out of Windhoek from Cape Town, but the airfares, at least from here, tend to be priced right around the same.
Do you have a number of a bucket shop in Cape Town I could call?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
floris_FRA
Aug 10, 04, 8:21 am
I'd be purchasing the ticket from outside the States.
If I wait to get to Cape Town on the 26th of August and I try to purchase my ticket on the 26th for travel on the 30 of August, how much money will it cost. Right now, I'm getting an airfare of $440.00 roundtrip.
I also looked into roundtrips into and out of Windhoek from Cape Town, but the airfares, at least from here, tend to be priced right around the same.
Do you have a number of a bucket shop in Cape Town I could call?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you are flying CPT- WDH - JNB then AFAIK this is not round-trip, but rather 2 one-ways. So the airfare will be higher than a round-trip. Try contacting these people here: http://www.flightcentre.co.za/flights they usually have cheap flights.
Depending on costs, I would consider getting 2 RT tickets CPT-WDH-CPT and WDH - JNB - WDH using only the first segment of each ticket. But check with the travel-agent how this compares to CPT-WDH-JNB.
On www.flysaa.com the cost for CPT-WDH-JNB is: $ USD 419.73
Let me know what price you got.
If I wait to get to Cape Town on the 26th of August and I try to purchase my ticket on the 26th for travel on the 30 of August, how much money will it cost. Right now, I'm getting an airfare of $440.00 roundtrip.
I also looked into roundtrips into and out of Windhoek from Cape Town, but the airfares, at least from here, tend to be priced right around the same.
Do you have a number of a bucket shop in Cape Town I could call?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you are flying CPT- WDH - JNB then AFAIK this is not round-trip, but rather 2 one-ways. So the airfare will be higher than a round-trip. Try contacting these people here: http://www.flightcentre.co.za/flights they usually have cheap flights.
Depending on costs, I would consider getting 2 RT tickets CPT-WDH-CPT and WDH - JNB - WDH using only the first segment of each ticket. But check with the travel-agent how this compares to CPT-WDH-JNB.
On www.flysaa.com the cost for CPT-WDH-JNB is: $ USD 419.73
Let me know what price you got.
iker
Aug 12, 04, 1:15 pm
As it turns out, I contacted the travel agency's Cape Town office, as well as a collegue's associate living in Johannesburg, who put me in contact with her firm's travel agency. I thought this would certainly do the trick. Alas, the roundtrip CPT-WDH-CPT cost the same as the open jaw ticket I was looking at CPT-WDH-JNB.
What I learned from this experience is that it's expensive flying in Africa, even with an advance purchase. A short distance, of about 2 hours flying time - similiar to distances between Washington and Orlando or Frankfurt and Barcelona - is $420 per passenger.
What's frustrating is that I've been looking at this flight since March 2004 and nothing's changed. It goes down $30USD and back up to the standard rate. I guess it says something about the state of competition of aviation in Southern Africa.
In any case, many thanks for your advice. I only wish it had turned out.
What I learned from this experience is that it's expensive flying in Africa, even with an advance purchase. A short distance, of about 2 hours flying time - similiar to distances between Washington and Orlando or Frankfurt and Barcelona - is $420 per passenger.
What's frustrating is that I've been looking at this flight since March 2004 and nothing's changed. It goes down $30USD and back up to the standard rate. I guess it says something about the state of competition of aviation in Southern Africa.
In any case, many thanks for your advice. I only wish it had turned out.