Maybe I am just unlucky when I fly Kulula, and so is my mother, but there does not ever appear to be a time when their flights run on time. During the World Cup one had little other option, because SAA seemed to have no flights and perhaps I was lucky that I got a Kulula flight early on the day of the Spain v Germany match, given that many other commercial flights had to be turned around, for the excess private jets parked at King Shaka International Airport.

It however becomes a major inconvenience, if you are flying relatively short distances between cities like Durban and Johannesburg, to continually find not only does your flight not take off at 3.30pm as scheduled, but the plane that you are going to be getting on only arrives from another destination at 3.43pm and then takes a further 30 minutes to be ready before taking off one hour late at 4:30. It appears that their flights routinely run at least an hour over deadline, and I would be quite happy to live with that, if only one actually knew beforehand and could arrive at the airport an hour later because ultimately, from the time you leave to the airport, to when you arrive at home, you may as well have driven, if they are going to run so far behind time.