Port Elizabeth is the second new airport in the Mango stable within 15 months; Lanseria was launched in mid-2011. \u201cFlights to and from Nelson Mandela Bay marks the beginning of a new growth phase for Mango,\u201d says CEO Nico Bezuidenhout. The airline plans to add several new routes, both domestic and regional, to its network over the next 24 months. The airline has also employed the vast majority Port Elizabeth airport staff recently retrenched by a competitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur operational efficiencies and fuel efficient, new generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft and wide distribution network and payment methods will continue to make air travel more accessible and affordable in every city we fly to,\u201d says Bezuidenhout. Mango has carried in excess of 9 million Guests (passengers) in 6 years of operation, an average of well over 1,3 million travellers annually and more than 300\u00a0000 per aircraft with a boarding and deplaning efficiency aggregate of 5 seconds per person.<\/p>\n
Mango currently enjoys 20% market share on routes that it operates, has been the most on-time domestic airline for 5 years on aggregate, is the only airline in Africa to offer Wi-Fi on-board and remains the sole global carrier to accept store charge cards (Edgars, Jet) as payment method.<\/p>\n
Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism<\/a> (NMBT<\/a>) chairperson Odwa Mtati (from left), Mango Airlines CEO Nico Bezuidenhout of Johannesburg, local tourism specialist Peter Myles and NMBT<\/a> vice-chairperson Clifford Ngakane in high spirits at the Port Elizabeth Int\u2019Airport today (SUBS: 5 December) when Mango touched down for the first time in Nelson Mandela Bay. The low-cost airline will fly between PE-Johannesburg and PE-Cape Town<\/a> from today.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Low cost airline Mango\u2019s first flight from Johannesburg landed in Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay this morning. The airline will initially operate daily return flights between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Since opening for sales on the route less than 10 days ago, forward bookings have shown positive movement with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-17018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mango](\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ca2ab_Mango.jpg\")
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