dublin - maputo ...

looking to fly to Maputo, departing Dublin on Sat 14th Apr ... and departing Maputo on Saturday 5th May ...
opodo.co.uk has Virgin flights via JNB for 675 gbp

travelocity.co.uk has KLM flights via AMS for 894 gbp

expedia.co.uk has TAP flights connecting in LIS for 940 gbp

ebookers.ie has the TAP flight for 1,425 eur

majortravel.co.uk does not have availability on any of its fares

london - maputo ...

looking to fly to Maputo, departing London on Sat 14th Apr ... and departing Maputo on Saturday 5th May ...

opodo.co.uk have Virgin/SAA flights for 544 gbp - departing LHR at 18:50, arriving in JNB at 06:55 with the connecting flight leaving at 13:50, arriving in MPM at 14:55. The return flight departs at 15:55 arriving in JNB at 17:05 with the connecting Virgin flight departing at 21:00, arriving in LHR at 06:55

expedia.co.uk have TAP flights for 657 gbp

travelocity.co.uk have the same flights for the same price - departing LGW at 16:00, arriving in LIS at 18:25 [or for an extra 5 quid, depart from LHR at 18:20] ... with the connecting flight departing LIS at 23:00 and arriving MPM at 10:45 the next day. on the way back the flight departs MPM at 10:40 arriving in LIS at 05:45 connecting to the LHR flight departing at 08:10 and arriving 10:45

the cheapest flights on ebookers.co.uk are SAA for 801 gbp

the best price on majortravel.co.uk is 764 gbp with SAA

airline-network.co.uk does not have availability on any of its fares

traveljungle.co.uk has the same Virgin and TAP fares as other websites

Cape Verde Islands ... how to get there - scheduled - 4th attempt

for a laugh, thought i might as well try using my bmi diamond club frequent flyer points ...

unsurprisingly there is no availability on the LON-LIS-SID sectors on 21/22/23 or 24th december ... they do have availability on the return leg, but only in business class - which would cost me 30,000 ...

they do have availability on the LIS-SID sector for the 22nd december [dep 21:50 arr 00:45] - only 2 seats ... with availability on the SID-LIS leg on 30th and 31st december, as well as 1st january [dep 01:55 arr 06:35, or possibly the Sat flight dep 11:55 arr 16:35] - the return in business class [no economy available] would be 45,000 miles

Cape Verde Islands ... how to get there - scheduled - 2nd attempt

since it is the LIS-SID-LIS legs that are adding the huge cost [800 gbp], i thought that i would try booking singles - sometimes that turns out cheaper ...

using the TAP website, the LIS-SID sector comes in at 1088.88 eur [approx 740 gpb] ... and they can't even quote for the return sector as a single ... scratch that, just tried again, and they have - 52500 cve [approx 330 gbp] ... and just in case a return ex-SAL might be cheaper, i tried that ... but it comes in at 69100 cve [approx 430 gbp]

ah well, worth a try

Cape Verde Islands ... how to get there - scheduled ...

got a bit of a shock looking at the flight prices

with TAP the price ex Gatwick via LISbon to SID [Sal airport] outbound on 23rd Dec and returning on 30the Dec is a jaw dropping 1,070 gbp and that is choosing the cheapest dates around this time, and price is the same ex LHR ...

the price for the LIS-SID leg is the crippling part - 800 quid !

using Amadeus to look at the scheduled flights - the only ones to SID are TAP/TACV and none of the flights to Praia (RAI), via continental europe, seem to go on a Saturday [which would be my preferred day of travel]

none of the main travel websites seem to use Cape Verde Airlines (TACV), so they are relying on TAP, and the TACV website itself seems only interested in US travellers ... so don't know how i can get online prices for TACV ?

the connections in Lisbon are:

LIS-RAI Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri - TACV
LIS-SID (Sal Airport) - M/T/W/T/F/S/S - TAP
and Wed/Sat/Sun - TACV