FlySafair sale

FlySafair sold more than 31,000 flight tickets for R8 as part of its 2022 mega sale. File photo. Image: Freddy Mavunda.

The following year 45,000 tickets were sold for R5 each. We’d like to do it again in 2023 but we might spice it up a little by trying something slightly different.” Me with with my luggage and no accommodation in Joburg after purchasing my R8 ticket 😶— Normah_Msomi (@ROHRHO) #FlySafair pic.twitter.com/79h0u293rf May 4, 2022 “I travel all the time but I’ve never been this lucky before. “I joined the queue at 9am and gave up by 2pm. All passangers in the plane knowing they paid R8 for the flight— SonOfAGun😭😭 (@LilGk10) #FlySafair pic.twitter.com/P1RdMD8Q90 May 4, 2022 It’s not mad. The airline had its first sale in August 2015, a year after it took its first flight, and sold 30,000 tickets for R1 each. It’s not nuts. What I'm doing while in the waiting room 😄😄— Emma (@EmmaLovedH) #FlySafair #FlySafairR8 pic.twitter.com/QZPNPOUa6N May 4, 2022 We’re always amazed at how creative and funny South Africans are.” It stands to reason that it serves us well, which is why we keep doing it,” he said.

The airline released over 30 000 tickets at R8 each, including airport taxes.

The waiting room doors opened at 7am and the first randomly selected customers were given access to the site at 9am. The airline released more than 30 000 tickets at R8 each, including airport taxes. “We’ve learnt a lot over the years since we ran our first sale in 2015 when we sold tickets at R1. Being wiser and more experienced, we’ve invested a great deal in our IT infrastructure and have introduced features like the waiting room to maintain order. At its busiest point, the waiting room hosted a record 1.07 million people, all waiting to see if they would be one of the lucky ones chosen to access the site each minute. Twitter was alive with waiting-room chatter. A record-smashing 1.7 million South Africans flocked to FlySafair’s waiting room to try their luck at getting onto the site to secure the cheap seats.

FlySafair sold 31 713 seats in eight hours, more than the original 30 000 planned for sale.

The waiting plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of the website while customers make their bookings. The airline invested a great deal in its IT infrastructure and introduced features like the waiting room to maintain order. “The pandemic, unfortunately, meant we had to hit pause on our annual mega-sale to refocus our efforts on securing jobs for our staff, the integrity of the business and our place in the industry.