[South Africa] Mango named as one of the Top 10 low-cost carriers in the world

Mango was named as one of the Top 10 low-cost carriers in the world by influential travel site Travelmath. The airline keeps company with some of the world’s biggest brands in low-cost travel including Virgin America, EasyJet, Southwest and Tiger Air among others. Mango was ranked ninth in the world and is the only African low-cost airline on the list. Australia’s JetStar was in pole position. Last week Mango was voted coolest low-cost airline in the Sunday Times Generation Next Awards and last year it was also awarded African Low-Cost Airline of the Year by Skytrax at the World Airline Awards.

“Recognition inspires our determination and continued pursuit of excellence,” says Mango spokesperson Hein Kaiser. “Nine years ago Mango was launched with objectives that included the availability of consistently affordable travel and innovation across all areas of domestic aviation.” Since its launch in 2006 Mango has carried 13.5 million Guests, its fleet has grown by 150% and the airline now serves the majority of South Africa’s major ports. Growth has been prudent, weathering challenging economic times profitably in 7 out of 8 completed full fiscals. “Mango is bent on service and we are focusing on Guest satisfaction and the development of more innovative products and services to make doing business with us as easy as possible.”

The site Travelmath credits Mango as one of the 7 carriers that changed travel around the world citing that “Budget airlines have changed the way we travel around the world. In the past decade we saw the rise of these airlines. For example we have Air Asia and Norwegian in 1993, Easy Jet in 1995, WestJet in 1996, Jetstar and Virgin America in 2004 and Mango in 2006.” Mango remains the only airline in the world that accepts store charge cards as payment method (Jet/Edgars cards) and the only airline in Africa to offer booking and payment on the go with mobile apps across all four major platforms and on-board Wi-Fi on many of its flights.

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