Johannesburg - Low-cost carrier FlySafair has released 15 000 tickets for flights on all its routes, at only R2 each, airport taxes included.
Tickets will be available exclusively on FlySafair's website from 9am until midnight or until the 15 000 tickets are sold out. No sales will be made via the FlySafair call centre or airport ticket sales desks.
Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and a limited number of tickets have been allocated to each route, for travel until the end of September 2016. Routes will include flights from OR Tambo, Lanseria, Cape Town, East London, George, Port Elizabeth and Durban.
“The public will be glad to know that we’ve moved our website onto a state-of-the-art cloud server to increase its capacity to host this sale,” says Vice President of sales and distribution at FlySafair, Kirby Gordon.
There will also be a waiting room, which will limit the amount of users that are on the website at one time, in order to prevent the demand from compromising the site.
So, much like the way concert tickets are sold, there will be a queue. Customers will need to keep an eye on the queue and make their purchases as soon as they get through to the site, as user sessions will expire after a period of inactivity to allow new users in.
Customers needing access to the website for other reasons, like checking up on flights, or making normal bookings, will be able to contact the call centre. The contact centre service fee will be dropped for the day.
“At FlySafair we want to make flying reliable and affordable for more South Africans. Since entering the market we have saved South African consumers over R614-million.
With the addition of Lanseria, we now service seven airports, more than any other low-cost airline. Innovation is at our core, not only to keep prices down, but within our service offering to consumers, giving them more options than ever before; for example paying R2 for a plane ticket,” says Gordon.
As with all FlySafair tickets, the R2 fare excludes checked-in luggage, which can be purchased separately, but passengers are permitted 7kg carry-on luggage each.
Adapted from a press release for IOL