The Secret to Cheap Flights Africa [retirado daqui]
Before you book your flight tickets, do yourself a big favour savings wise and run through the following 3 rules:
1. Use the national african airlines for the country you are travelling to.
Nine times out of ten this will be cheaper than using any other airline. Why? Because of economies of scale.
The national carrier should be handling more passengers to and from the country than any other airline and they can pass along the cost savings in the form of cheap tickets to africa to be more competitive.
Find out who the national carriers in various African countries are here:
flights to kenya / flights tanzania / south african flights / flights to zambia / flights namibia / flights zimbabwe / flights to uganda / flights gambia / flights to malawi / madagascar flights
2. Fly to the main international airport.
Even if the destination you are going to is not close to the international airport (most African countries only have one international airport), you can always travel from there using local transport than paying extra for a stopover flight.
It's always worth doing that calculation. African currencies are a lot weaker than most Northern hemisphere currencies so travel within the country will probably work out cheaper. Make sure you measure it against the inconvenience factor though.
Here are the names of the main international airports in various African countries:
kenya airports / tanzania airports / south african airports / zambia airports / namibia airports / zimbabwe airports / uganda airports / gambia airports / malawi airports / madagascar airports
3. It pays to shop around.
Booking your flights to Africa will be cheaper if you do it over the internet in most cases. No surprises there.
But don't just buy at the first site you tap your flight details into. Some of the internet retailers have special promotions running every now and again. So look around for bargains. It will save you money to do that little bit of extra research.
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