This is a short one but something that needs to be said:
After flying to Cape Town last Tuesday and then back to Johannesburg yesterday (Monday the 2nd) I can only come to the conclusion that local airline Mango is absolutely rubbish. To be fair, maybe rubbish is an unfair statement but a more apt description might be that the airline is made for little people or as those in non-politically correct land call them: midgets.
You see, in an attempt to cut costs (they can’t get away with drug smuggling like their big brother airline SAA does) they attempt to cram as many seats as is possible into a small space. In a sense whoever designed the Mango seating plan should win some award for space utilitsation while at the same time being flogged for cruel and and unusual torture.
Now I get it, for R600 I should be grateful that Mango even has seating but when you have to sit like the hunchback of Notre Dame to use your laptop then something might be wrong. I have a relatively small 13-inch Macbook and it couldn’t even be opened properly Let it be known that if you’re flying Mango then buy a Netbook, it’s the only way to work on one of their planes.
Having flown on low cost airlines in Asia I have to admonish Mango for their sardine approach to flying. Frankly the whole point of a low cost airline is to trim the frills and find innovative ways to cut costs not pack people into a fire hazard. I’ve flown both Kulula and 1Time and cannot seem to remember them being as cramped as the Mango flight.
I guess low prices talk and all I can say is thank goodness it’s only two hours!
Cramped hands Saul
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wow. i had no idea it was that bad. i shall stay with 1time then.
Interesting. And here I thoroughly enjoyed my Mango experience! (Maybe you should have tried pushing your seat back a little?
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That sucks but hey atleast the engine didn’t fall out in flight.
Well, I travelled on kulula.com for argus weekend and was very comfortable – as an added bonus one of the cabin crew members was an idols entrant and we were entertained for the duration of the flight!
having flown mango the weekend, i must concur. I am not an overly tall man at 1.8m, but when your knees are literally under the seat in front of you and you can barely move, then there is something wrong!!!! and as for the comment about pushing your seat back, the little space that is available means that the guy (or girl) behnd you will be even more cramped, which would be rude and I hope people don’t deliberately make other people uncomfortable on these flights