Use of cookies by South African Airways
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Three types of cookies may be used during your visit to flysaa.com:-
•South African Airways session cookies that are deleted after each visit.
•South African Airways persistent cookies that are valid across visits and, for example, are used to avoid the need to tell us your country of residence at the start of each visit.
•Third party cookies that are used by our partners, for example, to help us measure site visitors or to implement the SAA affiliate programme.
To use the flysaa.com website, you should ensure that you have cookies turned on in your browser.
The table below details the most frequently used cookies on flysaa.com and explains their use.
More information about cookies
| Cookies used on flysaa.com |
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
| JSESSIONID |
Set by Jboss to store the user session ID. |
| _utma |
Keeps track of the number and time of visits to the site by the user. |
| _utmb |
Keeps track of the duration of user visits. |
| _utma |
Keeps track of the number and time of visits to the site by the user. |
| _utmz |
Keeps track of the user location at the time of visit, and the source from which the site was accessed. |
| BIGipServerpool_FlySAA_APP_Prod |
used to maintain connection to the same server in the pool. |
| BIGipServerpool_FlySAA_AD_Prod |
used to maintain connection to the same server in the pool |
| multiplebooking |
Keeps track if a booking was made by the user in the last 24 hours. |
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