World Cup Flights

[finbarrk]

You can drive from Cape Town to PE.

Can you find anything from Jo'burg to Cape Town at a reasonable price? ~€500 on sky scanner and ZAR4,000 on Kulula.

The B&B owners and the airlines are out to ripoff fans.

The internet makes it very easy to compare May 2010 prices with June 2010. It is a disgrace. We've been lucky with world Cups as this is the first time the prices have been hiked. Athens did it for the Olympics and had their lowest hotel occupancy rates for years.

J'burg to C.T. is €180 with Kulula. And thats on the morning of a match day.
Paris to Lyon was similar in '98. As was N.Y. to Orlando in '94. Not much of a difference anyway.

[gspain]

J'burg to C.T. is €180 with Kulula. And thats on the morning of a match day.
Paris to Lyon was similar in '98. As was N.Y. to Orlando in '94. Not much of a difference anyway.

Internal Flights in 1994 for the World Cup were $50 each way when booked this far in advance. Those flight deals were still available well into 1994. We used US Air but a lot of airlines had the same deal.

I didn't fly during WC98 but I saw no evidence of anyone ripping people off in this way. Train passes were very reasonable. Hotels were the normal prices and we even moved accommodation and still got decent rates.

I flew to Germany 4 times during the last world cup and no Aer Lingus flight cost more than €150 return incl taxes and charges. Ryanair were even cheaper but I didn't fancy 2 hours on a bus from Hahn.

Of course if you want to fly tomorrow you'll pay top whack but this is every flight every day on every domestic airline.

I've been to every tournament since 1990 and every host nation went out of their way to encourage fans to travel and make it easier and cheaper for them to do so. This is clearly not thye case here.

The cheapest fare any time Jo'burg to Cape Town return is ZAR3998 during the world cup. This is approx €370. You can pay a lot more. You can get it for €100 return outside the world cup timeframe .

The airlines and B&Bs are engaging in a giant ripoff. Thewre is no defending this. Itr is the first time it has happened at a World Cup on such a scale.

Mango who got great positive publicity for announcing they weren't going to ripoff fans like the other airlines then proceeded to bring out their cheapest fares that are 10% higher than Kulula.

The ripoff is very easy to see.

Go on any airline or accommodation booking system and compare the differences for May/August 2010 and June/July. I've been watching these for months. The prices haven't come down. Even B&Bs that were originally only 50%-100% dearer such as Bev's in Edenvale near Jo'burg are now back in the cartel. B&Bs are 300%-1,000% dearer.

Athens tried this ripoff for the 2004 Olympics and it turned out to be a disaster for tourism that year and subsequently. 2 friends ended up advertising for a homestay in order to get accommodation for the Olympics. In the end the Hotel occupancy rates were 20% - the lowest in years.

[theleprechaun]

For anyone who is still planning on heading over to South Africa, I can recommend Thomas Cook. I booked my flights back in August for €800 with ThomasCookSport flying with Etidad. It is via Abu Dhabi but I don't think that the price can be beaten. Well, I for one, could not find a better deal. According to their website, these prices are still available.

[finbarrk]

Mine was €200 more but it's direct from Heathrow with BA.

[saint dog]

For anyone who is still planning on heading over to South Africa, I can recommend Thomas Cook. I booked my flights back in August for €800 with ThomasCookSport flying with Etidad. It is via Abu Dhabi but I don't think that the price can be beaten. Well, I for one, could not find a better deal. According to their website, these prices are still available.

possibly one of the best airlines in the world