IOL: SAA hopes cheap Mango will bear fruit

It's a case of hello to dirt-cheap seats, goodbye to legroom, and hello again to pensioner pilots.Launched on Monday, South African Airways' new low-cost kid on the block, Mango, will cost just R200 to fly between Johannesburg and Cape Town and a little less for flights between Johannesburg and Durban.But while Mango will be offering the cheapest flights in the country, they will also be the tightest.Mango's four Boeing 737-800s, leased from SAA, will see 186 seats packed into planes which, under normal seating configurations including Business Class, have places for 157 people.

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