Air Tickets

fm88

We recently travelled to South Africa with KLM, to visit friends, the tickets were booked directly from KLM via internet. Good service, good prices.

Our friends in SA are coming to visit next year but have to pay a lot more to fly over to see us, does anyone know if they could book travel in UK but start their journey from SA, and would it be economical for them?

richardw

It might be cheaper booking SA-PAR/BRU/AMS/FRA and then getting a no frills flight to the UK.

beanys

no they have to book form S.A
:rolleyes:

oranabana

you could always try this - but need to have some basic German skills:

https://www.fly.de

you can generally book a ticket from anywhere to anywhere with them and pay for it with a credit card.

Voyager2002

richardw wrote: »

It might be cheaper booking SA-PAR/BRU/AMS/FRA and then getting a no frills flight to the UK.

There is a lot to go wrong with this approach (delayed flights), and I doubt whether the saving would be that much.

Voyager2002

They will need to buy tickets for a journey from South Africa. However, they can use websites based anywhere in the world for this. A good place to start is Kayak, which might lead them to agents with low fares.

richardw

Voyager2002 wrote: »

There is a lot to go wrong with this approach (delayed flights), and I doubt whether the saving would be that much.

Agreed.

BUT sometimes there are flights such as SA-LHR-own transport-LGW-BRU/AMS, which are cheaper than SA-LHR.

fm88

Thanks, everybody for your help. I will pass on your comments to our fiends in SA.