08 Apr 2011 flights surveyed on 10 Mar 2011
South Africa Travel Online
Mango Airlines are cheapest overall, but SAA are offering the lowest price on Johannesburg to Durban flights since our 18 August 2007 JNB-DUR survey (well done to the government carriers on outperforming the private sector). This comparison was of one-way flights, coach trips and train trips from Johannesburg to Durban, leaving Durbs between 17h29 and 20h36 on Friday the 8th of April 2011. Prices will change (perhaps even by the time you read this).
Flights from Johannesburg to Durban
Bus & train trips from Jo'burg to Durban
Mango Airline economy class
JE283 leaves 19h15 arrives 20h25
415
Shosholoza Meyl economy class
leaves 18h30 arrives 07h21 the next morning
100
1time Airline economy class
T231 leaves 18h15 arrives 19h25
479
SA Roadlink coach
leaves 20h00 arrives 03h00 the next morning
150
Kulula economy class
MN641 leaves OR Tambo at 18h10 arrives 19h15
We priced the cost of renting a car from King Shaka International Airport from 21h00 on Friday the 8th of April 2011 until 13h00 on Sunday the 10th of April 2011 as follows:
DC Rainmaker caught a Swiss Airlinesflight to South Africa. In Johannesburg he made his way across the airfield to board a turboprop plane that would take him to a grass landing strip near Botswana, headed towards & Beyond’s Madikwe Lodge. At Madikwe he went on game drives seeing rhino,elephants, lions, impala, buffalos, wildebeests, kudu, zebras and giraffes (his favourite). "We were pretty lucky to be able to sit in one morning when they were ‘packaging up’ the two male lions and getting them ready for transit. Because &Beyond is considered a leader in wildlife conservation, the group actually worked in conjunction with the park officials this morning – so we got to tag along. It was pretty cool."