| 2001 |
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| July |
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| August |
- They have their first flight between Jo'burg and Cape Town.
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| 2002 |
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| August |
- kulula teams up with Imperial car rental to launch kulula.com/cars.
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| 2003 |
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| January |
- Voted "the best domestic airline" by the Airport Company of South Africa (ACSA).
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| April |
- Route network extended to include PE.
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| August |
- Millionth passenger flown and another route added to their network: Jo'burg - George.
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| 2004 |
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| January |
- kulula.com/beds introduced where passengers can book a room online at any Protea hotel. kulula.com/cabs introduced with Imperial chauffeur drive, offering passengers a ride to the airport for just R150 one way.
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| March |
- Computicket signs on and sells kulula products nationwide; the first deal of its kind that allows a "non-travel agent" to sell air tickets, cars, cabs and accommodation.
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| November |
- kulula.com/kicks introduced, offering passengers the opportunity to add an adventure or activity (ranging from shark cage diving to health spas) to their flight bookings.
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| 2005 |
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| January |
- kulula partners with ACSA to offer members of the South African Police Service (and their immediate family members) one-way flights for less than R300.
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| May |
- kulula's three millionth passenger transported.
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| October |
- Flights between Jo'burg to Windhoek, Namibia and Harare, Zimbabwe are introduced.
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| 2006 |
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| February |
- Lanseria Airport opens with daily kulula flights between Jo'burg and CapeTown.
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| April |
- kulula joins forces with Discovery Health to give Vitality members great savings on kulula flights booked with them.
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| August |
- In partnership with FirstRand Bank Ltd, the kulula.com credit card is launched, offering users the opportunity to fly for free and to earn/burn kulula moolah.
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| 2007 |
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| April |
- kulula partners with eBucks to allow their members to buy air tickets on kulula.com.
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| August |
- kulula wins the International "Skytrax" award for best low cost airline in Africa.
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| September |
- kulula wins Gold Loerie Award for their credit card campaign that launched them into the Financial Services sector
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| November |
- Together with Food and Trees for Africa, kulula launches project green.
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| 2008 |
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| February |
- More fuel efficient and planet-friendly planes are introduced into the kulula fleet.
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| May |
- kulula launches its jetsetter loyalty club, a free programme that lets members redeem earned rewards against ANY flight, at ANY time.
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| August |
- They increase their flights between Lanseria airport and Cape Town and take second place in the annual Markinor Sunday Times "Top Brands" survey in the domestic airlines category.
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| September |
- kulula.comrebrands and sports a new identity introducing kulula air, kululatravel, and kulula connect to join and already established kulula cardoffering.
- SATourism campaigns wins two Silver Loerie awards for encouraging SouthAfricans to travel in their own country
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| October |
- Powered by Altech Autopage kulula connect introduces the country's easiest website where consumers can browse, build and buy a cell phone package from the three network operators
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| November |
- kulula connect: wins the Creative Circle award for their launch RADIO campaign
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| December |
- Based on an independent consumer survey kulula.com was voted 'Best Low Cost Airline' at George and PE airports as part of the fifth annual Feather Awards
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| 2009 |
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| May |
- kulula.com's popular loyalty programme jetsetters celebrates its first birthday. Signing up over 500 new members every week, the programme now has 82 000 fans, all of whom will never pay full fare on a kulula flight again
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| June |
- kulula gets into the soccer spirit ahead of the 2009 Confederations cup showing their SA colours and taking to the skies with the radomes ( nose cones) of their entire fleet resembling soccer balls
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| August |
- kulula pilots share responsibility with the South African Air Force by flyingour president Jacob Zuma to the
G8 summit
- kulula.com is awarded 2nd prize behind British Airways Comair in the Sunday Times"Top Brands" survey
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| September |
- kulula scoops Bronze Loerie Award for their kulula connect radio campaign
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| October |
- 2009 kulula wins Second prize behind British Airways in the Orange Index Awards (for excellent customer service)
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| December |
- kulula launches their "new look" on-board magazine called "khuluma" which features SA comedians as guest-editors
- kulula introduces the first 737-800 into their fleet as part of their plans toupgrade to more fuel efficient and
"sky friendly" planes.
- kulula.com wins best travel booking site from jump.co.za
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| 2010 |
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| February |
- kulula.com's new plane design Flying 101 gains world wide acclaim
- kulula.com receives letter from FIFA to retract their "Unofficial carrier ofthe you-know what" print ad
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| March |
- kulula.com scoops creative circle award for Price Positioning "UnofficialSponsor /Not Next Year" news paper ads
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| May |
- kulula.com route network is expanded to include flights to Mpumalanga/Nelspruit
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| June |
- World Cup 2010: We invite SeppBlatter to fly and get a dog
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| September |
- We win Gold & Bronze Loerie for best integrated campaign for our"you know what" campaign
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| October |
- Launched our biggest campaign to date "you gotta love flying"
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| November |
- khuluma magazine won 'best new launch' magazine at the 41st Annual PICA Awards
- We won Orchard award from the Saturday Star for our "you gotta loveflying" Top gun TV ad
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| 2011 |
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| January |
- We scoop Creative Circlead of the month awards for our "you gotta love flying"campaign getting 1st place for our radio ad and 3rd place for Outdoorand Newspaper ads
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| March |
- We scoop gold Prisa award and our FIFA print ad wins Creative Circle newspaper ad ofthe year
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| April |
- We bought and branded a 1976 Chrysler Special Edition to be used by bloggers & at special events. We named her Cruisin’ 101.
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| May |
- We turned 10, bought some land on Marsand shared it with our fans.
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| August |
- We launch an exciting venture called ‘Daddy’s Deals’ which offers our customers the opportunity to take advantage of various deals at really discounted prices
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| 2012 |
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| June |
- World class upgrade to our site. Welcome Sabre on board.
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| September |
- We've expanded our routes to include British Airways.
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| October |
- 1st runner up for SimpliFlying Excellence in Social Media for customer service.
- Combo savings introduced to save you money.
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| November |
- Buy extra bags online.
- We add East London to our routes.
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| 2013 |
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| January |
- We take to the skies with The Most South African Flight Ever. Read more
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| February |
- kulula’s Boeing 737-800’s get dressed in Europcar branding
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| March |
- Our inaugural flight to East London
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| November |
- Book the seat of your choice with kulula’s prepaid seating benefit
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| 2014 |
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| February |
- We unveil our newly revamped airport counters
- New Discovery Vitality branded plane
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| March |
- Robertson Spice surprises our fans onboard with a tasty #SkyDine experience
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| April |
- Book a flight to Nairobi with Kenya Airways on kulula.com
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| August |
- kulula announces partnership with the Red Cross Children’s Hospital through The Children’s Hospital Trust
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| October |
- Air France and kulula.com announce codeshare partnership
- Another first for kulula: Airline innovates to reduce fuel consumption on Boeing 737-800s
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| November |
- Our online check-in campaign encourages fans to save precious time and check-in online from anywhere
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| December |
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| 2015 |
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| March |
- DIY made easy: travel agents can now manage their kulula group bookings via GDS – Read more
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| May |
- kulula gives passengers the choice of pre-purchasing emergency exit ro seats - Read more
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| June |
- kulula.com rated top low cost carrier in independent customer satisfaction industry report - Read more
- kulula.com family expands with the merger of Holiday Tours and kulula holidays - Read more
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| August |
- kulula signs interline agreement with Germany's Hahn Air - Read press release
- kulula.com wins SA's top business airline in the 2015 Sunday Times Top Brands survey – Read press release
- kulula celebrates arrival of 5th Boeing 737-800’s with comedian Marc Lottering – Read press release
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| September |
- kulula takes off with another best airline award at the 2015 Business Traveller Awards – Read press release
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| October |
- Introduces Stretch zone with increased legroom up to 3-4 inches – Read press release
- kulula.com and Virgin Atlantic Announce Interline Ticket Agreement – Read press release
- On 26 October, we operated the newest plane in our fleet – our 6th Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 as part of our fleet upgrade which saw us now operate the youngest and greenest fleet of operational commercial aircraft in South Africa - Read press release
- Greening NGO Food & Trees for Africa reaffirms partnership with kulula.com – Read press release
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| December |
- kulula.com is yet again named the Best Low Cost Airline by AirlineRatings.com – Read press release
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| 2016 |
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| January |
- kulula scores the highest among South African domestic airlines in the South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi), for the second year in a row – Read press release
- kulula.com announced the launch of a new partnership with Avios South Africa which will allow kulula fans who join the Avios Travel Rewards Programme to collect Avios points on kulula flights – Read press release
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| July |
- South Africa’s champion airline, kulula.com was voted the Best Low-Cost Airline in Africa in the 2016 Skytrax World Airline Awards – Read press release
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| September |
- kulula.com is named the Best African Low-Cost Airline for 2016 at the Business Traveller Africa Awards – Read press release
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| November |
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