Want to avoid being packed like sardines?
Find out which airline gives you more room for your money.
Whether you are flying to Cape Town or London, Maputo or Sydney, you want to be comfortable in your seat.
Moneyweb asked 1time, kulula.com, SAA, Mango and British Airways (BA) how much legroom they give their customers in their aircraft.
According to the stats that the airlines provided, SAA is number one when it comes to the amount of legroom airlines allocate their passengers.
SAA's seat pitch, which is the measurement from the end of the seat to the seat in front of you, for its economy class could be anything from 78,7cm to 86,36cm, depending on the aircraft.
Premium class figures are double that of economy class at 198,12cm, 187,96cm and 185,42cm depending on the aircraft.
1time's marketing manager, Anya Potgieter said that her airline's seat pitch could be anything from 79cm to 84cm, which puts its legroom provision second after SAA and first out of the low-cost carriers.
Glenda Zvenyika, Comair's communication's manager could not tell us how much room BA business class section allocates to its passengers.
At economy class level however, BA allocates passengers 82,5cm per seat pitch.
Kulula.com also allocates 82,5cm on its MD82 aircraft and 75cm on its Boeing 737 400 for legroom.
New low-cost airline Mango offers customers the least room to play with.
The seat pitch is the same as Kulula.com's Boeing 737 400 at 75cm, and the seat width is only 41,25cm.
Both BA economy class and Kulula.com offer passengers 48cm in seat width, which is the largest size seat of all the airlines at economy class level.
With 45cm to 46cm wide seats, 1time offers a better deal than SAA's economy class which sits at 43,18cm, 43,6cm and 43,7cm depending on the aircraft.
As for SAA's premium class offering, passengers are allocated 55,88cm and 52,07cm wide seats.
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