I recently had, in two weekends, to fly from OR Tambo to Cape Town for a Law Society meeting and then from Kulula in Lanseria to Durban. If you gave me the choice, I would probably fly SAA from Lanseria, except for the fact that they are not at Lanseria. When you miss a flight on SAA, they will always accommodate you or make a plan and they have so many more flights that it does not become a problem as it is with Kulula. I did not miss my flight on this occasion but I have in the past, and I know which airline I want to be on when I am running late.

Lanseria is really a very small airport, and it did not feel much bigger, to be honest and I am not being rude, than the Victoria Falls Airport and it made me feel that I was in some small part of Africa and not just a few kilometres away from the densely populated Fourways. The Kulula flights at Lanseria are packed, but unfortunately they don’t run on time which is something my mother warned me of saying that they are “always late” and in fact my flight took off 80 minutes late – which is a bit irritating when you are waiting to simply catch a 50 minute flight to Durban.

I understand how Kulula’s business operates, with one flight hopping all over the country and if it is delayed somewhere, then your flight is going to pick up more delays, but it is not terribly convenient. I think for now that I would probably continue to fly from OR Tambo, but what I might do is return home via Lanseria. It probably requires a bit more research by me to find out what Kulula flights typically fly on time and which don’t because I do understand that there is a bit of a pattern.