Booking flights in, out, and around South Africa does not come cheap – especially using the ever-fluctuating measly rand to pay for them.
But how do the prices of our flights compare to other countries around the world?
Well, not too badly, actually.
An international online travel agency has published data showing both the cheapest and most expensive flight costs coming out of countries around the world.
Assessing more than one million international and domestic journeys across the world, the travel agency’s 2016 Aviation Price Index found the following information, according to BusinessTech:
That’s not too bad, huh? At least we can have ways and means of finding the cheapest of those “cheap” flights.
Here are the top ten countries on either side of the ranking in order:
[source:businesstech]
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