Could a ticket from London to Cape Town cost the same in 2016 as it did in 1976?
I have paid £760 for next weeks ticket from Heathrow to Cape Town via Jo'burg with SAA. I believe this to be the same as I paid in January 1976. I appreciate the variables such as when booked etc. but is my memory playing tricks or can some one confirm £760 was approximately correct?
Best Answer
In 1960, a round-trip from New York to London cost $350, according to a Pan Am advertisement. The same trip today, booked out-of-season, in economy class, with a layover and sufficiently in advance costs around $550, an increase of 60%. The official inflation rate was around 800% over the same time period, so it seems that the cheapest air fares have decreased by around 80%. Various sources confirm that air-travel prices have indeed gone down:
Therefore the answer is yes, it's feasible that the dollar value of both tickets stayed the same over the years.
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How long is a flight from London to Cape Town?
How long does it take to fly from London to Cape Town? 11 hours and 45 minutes is the average flight time from London to Cape Town.Can you fly to Cape Town from London?
London to Cape Town flight duration Fly with British Airways and you can travel direct from London Heathrow and London Gatwick to Cape Town International airport in just over eleven hours.How do you get to Cape Town from UK?
There are direct flights from London to Cape Town with British Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines, while South African Airlines fly direct to Johannesburg then sends you on an internal flight to Cape Town. If you like to travel in a spacious seat, you should consider Emirates, Turkish Airlines or Ethiopian Airlines.Thomas Cook ECONOMY London to Cape Town A330
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