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flysaa.com is designed to be compatible with most browsers on the Windows platform, but many older versions of these browsers do not support the latest internet technology (such as style sheets, JavaScripts, SSL security or frames) so we recommend specific configurations.
By using the recommended configurations, you will be able to take advantage of all the site's features. Although your browser may not be listed it may still work. However, using unsupported configurations may make certain features unavailable.
Which internet browsers does flysaa.com support?
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Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher
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Mozilla Firefox 2 or higher
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Apple Safari 3.1 or higher
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Opera 9 or higher
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Netscape Navigator 7
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Google Chrome
Note: We do not support beta versions of any browser, including Internet Explorer 8.0 or Google Chrome.
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Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Opera
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Recommended browser settings
- Screen Resolution: 1024 X 768 pixels
- JavaScript: enabled
- Cookies: enabled
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How to increase the text size in your browser
- Internet Explorer - View > Text Size. You can also use Tools > Internet options > Accessibility or use the keyboard shortcut of control and or - to increase or decrease text size. Note: This is only applicable to IE7
- Firefox - View > Text Size > Increase Font, or use the keyboard shortcut by pressing Control and
- Opera - View > Preferences > Fonts then change Minimum Font Size
- Safari - Safari > Preferences > Advanced then select minimum font size
- Google Chrome - Keyboard Shortcut: Hold down the < CTRL> and click the " " or "-" key to increase or decrease font size as required. To restore font size to default use 0
Click the Page menu -> Select Zoom -> Select Larger or Smaller as necessary. To see the webpage in its original layout, select Normal
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Use of cookies by South African Airways
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Typically, a cookie records your personal preferences when using a website. It allows the website to 'remember' you and thereby helps the website serve its users better.
For more detailed information about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
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.
Internet Explorer 7.0
Select Tools - Internet Options - Click the Privacy tab - Move the slider to Medium or lower (click the Default button first if you don't see the slider) - Click OK.
Mozilla Firefox 2.x
Select Tools - Select Options - Click on the Privacy tab - Make sure that the box next to Accept Cookies from Sites is checked - Click OK.
Safari 2.0
Select the Safari menu - Select Preferences - Click on Security - Click the Always option in the Accept Cookies section.
Google Chrome
Click the Tools menu - select Options - select the Under the Hood tab - click Content settings in the "Privacy" section and allow cookies.
If you have a different browser than those listed above, please refer to the help in your browser for information about how to enable cookies.
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How to delete caches and cookies in your internet browser
Internet Explorer
Click on Tools – Internet Options - General Temporary Internet Files – Delete Cookies Delete Files – check the box on the pop up - Apply - OK. Close your browser and re-open.
Mozilla Firefox
Click on Tools – Clear Private Data – select Caches and Cookies – Clear Private Data Now. Close your browser and re-open.
Safari
To remove caches :
Click on Edit - Empty Cache - then click Empty.
To remove cookies:
Click Edit - Preferences – Security - Show Cookies. Select one or more cookies and click Remove, or click Remove All. When you finish removing cookies, click Done.
Opera
Click on Tools - Delete Private Data – Clear Private Data – select Delete Entire Cache and Delete All Cookies – Delete
Some of the cookies are essential in order for you to use flysaa.com
Google Chrome
Go to Wrench - Options - Under the hood - Clear browsing data - select empty the cache and delete cookies and other site data, and choose everything in clear data from this period and finally hit the clear browsing data button.
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Why JavaScript?
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications. To use the flysaa.com website, you should ensure that you have JavaScript turned on in your browser. All flysaa.com web users are advised to set their browser security lever to Medium-High.
Internet Explorer 7.0
Select Tools - Select Internet Options - Click on Security tab - Click the Custom Level button - Scroll down to the Scripting section - Under Active Scripting, click Enable - Click OK twice.
Mozilla Firefox 2.x
Select Tools - Select Options - Click on the Content option - Put a check mark next to Enable JavaScript - Click OK.
Safari
Select the Safari menu - Select Preferences - Click on Security - Check the Enable JavaScript option.
Google Chrome
Click on Wrench - Options - to Under The Hood - "Content Settings" - JavaScript - Allow all sites to run JavaScripts
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Webpage not displaying correctly?
For customers using multiple networks to access flysaa.com, please check that the HTTP 1.1 settings are both ticked:
In Internet Explorer*, this screen can be found by clicking Tools – Internet Options – Advanced
*For all other browsers please refer to the help in your browser for information about how to change your HTTP1 settings.
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Japanese Users: how change browser settings to Western European (ISO)
Internet Explorer 7 and 8
Internet Explorer has an Auto-Select feature for displaying languages correctly. Some web pages include information about what encoding to use when displaying the page; the Auto-Select feature enables Internet Explorer to determine the appropriate language encoding for a webpage even if the page itself doesn't specify which encoding to use. To turn on Auto-Select:
- From the View menu, select Encoding, and then Western European (ISO)
Note: In Internet Explorer 7 and 8, to make the File, View, and Edit menus at the top visible, press Alt once.
You may be prompted to download a language support component; if so, click Download.
You will have to clear your Caches and Cookies, then close your browser and restart Internet Explorer for the change to take effect.
Adding a language does not guarantee that your computer has a font it can use to display web pages in the selected language.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
To set Firefox to automatically try to display the correct character encoding within a particular language for web pages:
1.From the View menu, select Character Encoding, and then Western (ISO 8859-1).
To manually select the correct character encoding for a page:
1.From the View menu, select Character Encoding, and then More Encodings.
2.From the list that appears, select the correct language family, and then the correct character set.
You will have to clear your Caches and Cookies, then close your browser and restart Mozilla Firefox for the change to take effect.
If you have a different browser than those listed above, please refer to the help in your browser for information about how to enable cookies.
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Secure Sockets Layer 3 (SSL)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology protects a website and makes it easy for visitors to trust us in three essential ways:
- An SSL Certificate enables encryption of sensitive information during online transactions.
- Each SSL Certificate contains unique, authenticated information about the certificate owner.
- A Certificate Authority verifies the identity of the certificate owner when it is issued.
For more detailed information about SSL visit VeriSign.
All flysaa.com web users are advised to use SSL3.0.
In Internet Explorer*, this screen can be found by clicking Tools – Internet Options – Advanced
*For all other browsers please refer to the help in your browser for information about how to change your SSL settings.
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Printing a webpage
When printing any page during your booking process on flysaa.com, please use the following guideline:
Select File – Select Print – Click on Options - Click on As laid out on screen – Click the Apply button - Print
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Adobe Reader
In order to open your tax invoice and other documents placed on this site, you will need Adobe Reader version 6 or higher installed on your computer.
If you don't have Adobe Reader version 6 or higher installed on your computer, please click here to download the software.
If you have an older version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you will see the following error message when you try to open the attachment:
There was an error opening this document. This viewer cannot decrypt this document.
Please upgrade your current version of Adobe Reader to version 6 or higher by downloading the newer version from the Adobe website. Once you have installed Adobe Reader version 6 or higher, double-click on the attachment in order to view the document.
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