Monday launch
27 October 2006 The secret is out! SAA to launch LCC on Monday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAA has confirmed that its new low-cost carrier (LCC) will be launched to the media on Monday October 30 in Johannesburg. The new carrier’s ceo will also be announced. Lucy Siebert

It is amazing what a little competition can do. Mango launched at midnight with fares of R169 (+- US$22) on the JNB-CPT and JNB-DUR sectors. Within under 12 hours kulula.com have drooped their fares to R168 on similar routes, and 1Time have lowered theirs to R165, also on the JNB-CPT/DUR runs. Incidentally Mango (IATA code JE) will also fly DUR/CPT-BFN from late November onwards.

asked this at ssc but wonder what u guys here think of the airlines focus on flights from Durban and CT rather than Joburg. is it a sign that these centres offer greater growth due to lack of competition on routes? i mean 1Time are also starting a Durban to Bloem route.

Has anyone tried to access their website. If you use flymango.com you get routed to "http://www.two-wings.net/" and if you use flymango.co.za you get routed to "http://www.tradepage.co.za/". Has anybody else had this problem.

SA747 - try flushing your cache and/or deleting cookies... UPDATE: 1st sneak pics here: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2939938&postcount=355

Wow, spectacular livery. Really great! Reminds me a bit of the Australian livery... Cheers, Felix

must say the paint job looks striking

The paint job has a definate Australian Airlines (since ceased ops.) feel to it. Very nice. South Africa now has a 'robot' (traffic light) of LCCs: 1Time Mango kulula He he he.

yeh our airports are going to be full of really colourful planes!

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - The birth of a new low-cost South African airline has been met enthusiastically by travellers but with resentment from competitors who claim it is being effectively bankrolled by the taxpayer. Mango, whose parent company is a subsidiary of the national carrier South Africa Airlines (SAA), took the number of low-cost airlines to three this month when it began flying between Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein. With ticket prices as low as 169 rand (23 dollars) one way, some 80,000 tickets were snapped up in its first week in spite of problems accessing both the airline's website and call centre. But if travellers are delighted by the battle of the skies, Mango's competitors are less than happy that the latest entrant into the market has taken flight with a 100 million rand cash injection from the state-owned SAA. Click Competitors Cry Foul In South Africa's Battle of the Skies for full article. 23 dollar tickets :shock: :shock: ........ thats really nice in Africa. Mango should open up a Kenyan version, where 23 dollar tickets won't get you anything better than a bus ride on suspension breaking highways. Cheers, W

I flew JE on their 2nd ever JNB-DUR flight on board ZS-SJG. I'm against the airline on principle (the whole taxpayer funding their operations issue) and pretty much flew them just to say I had. Service was typical LCC and very comparable to MN and 1T, however the inflight 'meals' are very expensive compared to kulula and 1Time. I hope that they prove me wrong and succeed on their own steam.