South African low-cost airline carrier FlySafair has confirmed some 30 000 tickets are about to go sale for R8.
The sale will start at 09h00 on Wednesday morning and end at 17h00, or when all tickets are sold out.
The R8 tickets include all airport taxes and VAT, but "exclude any additional services such as (but not limited to) checked luggage, priority boarding and seat pre-selection".
Access to the tickets will only be via the FlySafair website, through its waiting room mechanism to manage the demand.
"We'll be admitting a certain number of customers onto our website every few minutes from 9 am. Once you are on our site, use our low fare finder to track down R8 tickets, but be quick as sessions expire quickly."
The terms and conditions of the sale state tickets will be " valid for a travel window between 05 May 2022 and the end of October 2022 only".
The sale is only available for domestic flights, and excludes its Mauritius route.
29 April 2022
South African low-cost airline carrier FlySafair is well-known for its super low birthday sales, and a R8 sale is on the way according to its social media.
Posting to Instagram the airline, which operates local flights to Joburg, Cape Town, Durban, PE, East London & George - encouraged travellers to create a profile account in anticipation of the upcoming sale.
Although, no specific date has been announced as yet.
The local airline started its crazy sale campaign in 2015, with tickets sold for R1, with sale ticket prices rising by R1 each year and last sale for R5 per ticket took place in 2019. Over the past two pandemic-hit years of 2020 to 2021 the sale could not take place due to travel restrictions.
The event is often widely anticipated with many highs and lows as some are able to secure the heavily discounted tickets, while others are only met with frustration and delays due to heavy traffic loads experienced on the FlySafair website.
In its post FlySafair states, "It’s our Crazy R8 sale and it’s coming soon. We can’t say just when and we can’t say just where, but what we can say it’s coming and you better prepare.""A profile helps to save time when booking flights, and time is of the essence when it's down to the crunch to get R8 flights. Your personal details are stored so you don’t have to re-input them, you can store payment types too, and when you are ready to fly, check-in is speedier too."
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It will be a wait-and-see game yet again, as to whether the app does improve the flash sale experience or not for many avid travellers hoping to snag a deal. Sale dates are expected to be announced through local airline news sources next week.
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