ACSA Flight Info

I just had the need to find out flight information and sadly, because Kulula's website is deficient, I was not able to find the info I needed there and after listening to Trevor Noah on their "help" line for 10 minutes, I hung up in disgust.

I then resorted to ACSA's website which I remember having this information, but their websites are currently down... *sigh*

Resorting to phoning ACSA, I ended up with the following number for flight information:

086 72 77 888

This is ACSA's automated flight information line and I was pleasantly surprised that it was able to provide me with the information I needed promptly and efficiently!

It uses a voice recognition system to guide you through choices which made no mistakes and was above all, fast.

While an 0867 number may be premium rated, it was no doubt far cheaper and definitely faster and less painful than holding for Kulula's contact centre!

Now if ACSA they can just get their website working...

Symbolic linked ZIP files break IE

I just encountered a weird problem which took a while to sort out, so I thought I would share.

If you are using symbolic links to ZIP files on your server, they will download fine in Firefox but not Internet Explorer (IE) if you are using GZip compression in Apache (mod_deflate).

To fix this, turn off compression for ZIP files (which should not need to be compressed further anyway) by adding the following line to your Apache configuration file(s) in the appropriate location:

# Don't compress ZIP files
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:zip)$ no-gzip dont-vary

That will stop ZIP files from being GZipped and help IE to not fall over itself...

Hope this saves you some time.