{"id":86710,"date":"2015-05-07T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86710"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:36:43","slug":"mango-launches-r1-flights-to-promote-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86710\/mango-launches-r1-flights-to-promote-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango launches R1 flights to promote app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost airline Mango says it will offer\u00a0fares from R1.00 for a limited time as part of a promotion for the launch of its third app, for all devices operating Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8.1 operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Mango claims to be the first African airline to offer a mobi-site and apps allowing bookings, payment and flight management on the go.<\/p>\n<p>The Mango app is available for download in all app stores for Android, Apple, Blackberry and Windows 8.1 devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The release of the Windows app sees Mango come full circle in terms of major mobile platform availability,&#8221; said spokesperson Hein Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>Mango said that its apps have received more than half a million downloads in total.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology as a business enablement tool stretches across every aspect of our business; from bringing Mango closer to our Guests through social media channels through to retail applications such as mobile bookings. It is our intent to pursue innovation across the airline,&#8221; Kaiser said.<\/p>\n<p>The R 1 sale is exclusively available through the Mango app on the Windows 8.1 platform and on sale until 31 May 2015 for travel until end June 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Terms and Conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 000 seats available on selected flights on a first come, first served basis.<\/li>\n<li>No group bookings available on promotional fares.<\/li>\n<li>Special events, long weekends (Fridays and return Sundays) and peak flights are excluded.<\/li>\n<li>Not available through Call Centre, website or any other channel.<\/li>\n<li>Return bookings only,\u00a0of which only one sector can be R1.00. No combination of any other promotional fare, second sector will be on published fare.<\/li>\n<li>R1.00 Base fare only excluding any taxes \/ Normal taxes will apply on all R1.00 fare bookings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA airlines<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79127\/are-south-africans-using-in-flight-wi-fi\/\"><strong>Are South Africans using in-flight Wi-Fi?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/78650\/get-ready-for-new-airline-baggage-rules-in-sa\/\">Get ready for new airline baggage rules in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85952\/the-biggest-airlines-in-africa\/\">The biggest airlines in Africa<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost airline Mango will offer fares from R1.00 for a limited time as part of a promotion for the launch of Windows mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876,1],"tags":[51,161,26,2476],"class_list":["post-86710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-trending","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-mango"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710","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=86710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86718,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions\/86718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}