{"id":101320,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/travelstarts-flightforchange-mandela-day\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:54:21","slug":"travelstarts-flightforchange-mandela-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/travelstarts-flightforchange-mandela-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelstart’s #FlightForChange for Mandela Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our trusted audience may remember that on #MandelaDay 2016, Travelstart ran an award-winning social media competition on Twitter called #FlightForChange where users had 67 minutes to nominate someone who they thought was most deserving of a free domestic flight.<\/h2>\n

In total, 27 flights were up for grabs \u00a0\u2013 1 for every year that Mandela was in prison.<\/p>\n

Excitement for #MandelaDay was created through tweets that needed to be shared to reveal different stages of the competition. #FlightForChange trended on Twitter within 10 mins of the campaign going live.<\/p>\n

This year, Travelstart is relaunching this campaign and building on its success, running this competition on Facebook as well as Twitter \u2013 with the help of Mango Airlines and their generous sponsorship of 27 (return) domestic flights.<\/p>\n

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Sentimental Moments from #MandelaDay 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the sentimental moments that have made this campaign such a phenomenal success. Last year\u2019s winners included a 90 year-old Grandmother who had never been on a plane or seen the ocean before (She was nominated by her Granddaughter and flown to Cape Town), another a man who wanted to propose to his long-distance girlfriend and a cancer survivor amongst others.<\/p>\n

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Want to get involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n