- FlySafair is selling R8 tickets as part of its 2022 mega sale, which starts at 09:00 on Wednesday morning.
- These tickets, available for selected domestic routes, can only be bought online via FlySafair’s website.
- Those looking for the cheapest tickets in South Africa will first be placed in a waiting room to limit strain on FlySafair’s booking platform.
- And moving from the waiting room to the booking platform is done at random, so “it’s literally luck of the draw”, the airline told Business Insider South Africa.
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FlySafair is offering the cheapest flights in South Africa with a batch of R8 tickets available to customers who are patient and lucky enough.
South Africa’s low-cost carrier FlySafair is well-known for its annual “mega-sale”. It started in August 2015, a year after the airline took its first flight, when around 30,000 tickets were sold for R1 each. In 2018, the same number of tickets were offered at R4 each, and the following year, some 45,000 tickets were sold for R5 each.
But, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which grounded flights and disrupted travel demand, FlySafair’s mega-sale was put on hold in 2020 and 2021.
After a two-year hiatus, FlySafair’s 2022 sale – offering 30,000 tickets for R8 each – will officially start at 09:00 on Wednesday 4 May, the airline confirmed on Tuesday.
SA, we invite you to throw your sanity away, because tomorrow, sh?t’s going to get cray! Keep an eye on our social media platforms and your email inbox for more info on our Crazy R8 Sale, starting tomorrow at 9 am sharp! You’d be nuts to miss out.T’s&Cs apply pic.twitter.com/TLlpupCSX5
— FlySafair (@FlySafair) May 3, 2022
These online sales – only available through the airline’s website – have consistently overwhelmed FlySafair’s booking platform, with bargain-hunters rushing to the site en masse to grab the cheapest flights in South Africa. During the last sale, FlySafair’s website, which at the time had…