{"id":135801,"date":"2016-09-06T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135801"},"modified":"2016-09-06T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:39:53","slug":"airline-ticket-prices-south-africa-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/135801\/airline-ticket-prices-south-africa-vs-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline ticket prices: South Africa vs the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online travel agency Kiwi.com, has published data showing which countries have the cheapest and most expensive flights, including South Africa.
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Kiwi.com\u2019s 2016 Aviation Price Index assessed more than one million international and domestic journeys.<\/p>\n

It found that India offered the least expensive flight prices per 100km of travel, while the United Arab Emirates clocked in with the most expensive tickets.<\/p>\n

South Africa ranked in seventh position, with an average flight cost of US$7.33\u00a0 (R103) per 100km of travel, factoring in both domestic and international journeys.<\/p>\n

The average low-cost airline domestic trip amounted to $5.69 (R80) per 100km of travel, substantially less than the average domestic price offered by legacy airline, SAA – $9.94 (R140).<\/p>\n

The least expensive country, India, averaged a flight cost of $3.25 (R46) per 100km of travel. At the other end of the ranking, the UAE calculated at a cost over 30 times higher, at $105.71 (R1,487,50) per 100km of travel.<\/p>\n

Countries offering the least expensive flights (cost\/100km in USD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\n<\/th>\nDomestic Flights<\/th>\nInternational Flights<\/th>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
#<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nLow-cost Airline<\/th>\nLegacy Airline<\/th>\nLow-cost Airline<\/th>\nLegacy Airline<\/th>\nAverage cost\/100km<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nIndia<\/td>\n$2.27<\/td>\n$2.67<\/td>\n$3.54<\/td>\n$4.51<\/td>\n$3.25<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nMalaysia<\/td>\n$2.32<\/td>\n$5.81<\/td>\n$2.11<\/td>\n$4.88<\/td>\n$3.78<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n$7.02<\/td>\n$6.32<\/td>\n$3.18<\/td>\n$7.01<\/td>\n$5.88<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nPortugal<\/td>\n$4.04<\/td>\n$14.57<\/td>\n$2.80<\/td>\n$5.41<\/td>\n$6.71<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nIndonesia<\/td>\n$4.34<\/td>\n$5.68<\/td>\n$6.18<\/td>\n$11.14<\/td>\n$6.84<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAzerbaijan<\/td>\n$6.03<\/td>\n$11.69<\/td>\n$2.91<\/td>\n$7.10<\/td>\n$6.93<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n$5.69<\/td>\n$9.94<\/td>\n$6.33<\/td>\n$7.36<\/td>\n$7.33<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nAlgeria<\/td>\n$9.16<\/td>\n$10.43<\/td>\n$5.17<\/td>\n$5.92<\/td>\n$7.67<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nPhilippines<\/td>\n$5.23<\/td>\n$8.26<\/td>\n$3.93<\/td>\n$13.61<\/td>\n$7.76<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nSweden<\/td>\n$8.97<\/td>\n$15.14<\/td>\n$2.81<\/td>\n$5.33<\/td>\n$8.06<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Countries offering the most expensive flights (cost\/100km in USD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\n<\/th>\nDomestic Flights<\/th>\nInternational Flights<\/th>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
#<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nLow-cost Airline<\/th>\nLegacy Airline<\/th>\nLow-cost Airline<\/th>\nLegacy Airline<\/th>\nAverage cost\/100km<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n$43.75<\/td>\n$59.66<\/td>\n$14.74<\/td>\n$29.21<\/td>\n$36.84<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\nAustria<\/td>\n$69.70<\/td>\n$69.70<\/td>\n$3.72<\/td>\n$4.53<\/td>\n$36.91<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\nDenmark<\/td>\n$26.46<\/td>\n$61.42<\/td>\n$22.61<\/td>\n$40.94<\/td>\n$37.86<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
69<\/td>\nBelgium<\/td>\n$37.75<\/td>\n$84.49<\/td>\n$13.43<\/td>\n$16.61<\/td>\n$38.07<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n$8.00<\/td>\n$8.47<\/td>\n$43.70<\/td>\n$94.66<\/td>\n$38.71<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
71<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n$29.52<\/td>\n$72.98<\/td>\n$26.46<\/td>\n$36.96<\/td>\n$41.48<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
72<\/td>\nThe Netherlands<\/td>\n$28.15<\/td>\n$91.53<\/td>\n$16.88<\/td>\n$32.84<\/td>\n$42.35<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
73<\/td>\nQatar<\/td>\n$64.36<\/td>\n$85.31<\/td>\n$18.75<\/td>\n$33.04<\/td>\n$50.37<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
74<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n$39.61<\/td>\n$130.80<\/td>\n$8.01<\/td>\n$25.48<\/td>\n$50.98<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
75<\/td>\nUAE<\/td>\n$181.38<\/td>\n$220.36<\/td>\n$9.80<\/td>\n$11.28<\/td>\n$105.71<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Extra flight charges: SAA vs the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online travel agency Kiwi.com, has published data showing which countries offer the best and worst value flights, including South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,9876],"tags":[26,11601],"class_list":["post-135801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-kiwi-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135801"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135829,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135801\/revisions\/135829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}