South African Express Airways

CPT-JNB-CPT economy. I booked 3 days before departure for a quick return trip. I would have travelled SAA in preference to the other carriers, but after booking I compared prices between SAA and the four other domestic carriers, and comparing similar timings, SAA was the least expensive (ZAR 1565), admittedly not by much, but so much for 'low cost' carriers. When I saw the long check in queues for the other carriers at CTIA I was even happier to have booked SAA, simply drew my boarding card after checking in online and sauntered to the boarding gate. Flights were punctual, lots of information from the flight deck, cabin crew attentive and friendly, modern clean aircraft, and decent seat pitch.