R8 flight tickets FlySafair

Get your coins ready. FlySafair is selling tickets for R8 as part of its 2022 mega sale.

Once a user completes a purchase, or their session expires, they will be redirected to the waiting room again.” The remaining visitors will be placed in our ‘waiting room’.” For now, we can’t divulge the date but anticipate it will be soon, so take note of these tips because we totally rate they’ll help you grab an 8— FlySafair (@FlySafair) pic.twitter.com/ebaPObN3n0 April 29, 2022 The following year 45,000 tickets were sold for R5 each. You’d be nuts to miss out,” said the airline. You’d be nuts to miss out.— FlySafair (@FlySafair)

Much of the frustration has been directed at FlySafair's randomised selection process, which didn't offer preferential access to the booking platform on a first ...

This is "designed to preserve the integrity of the website and protect it against the heavy traffic demand." The selection of who got to leave the waiting room and enter the booking platform was completely randomised. More than that, despite hyperbole to the contrary, folks always try again the next time." In the most recent sale, apart from responses by FlySafair's social media team, details of the selection method were briefly covered in the promotion's terms and conditions. But a million people who entered the waiting room, designed to limit strain on the website, never got through to the actual booking platform. FlySafair's annual mega-sale started in 2015, with the airline offering a limited number of tickets to patient bargain-hunters.

The FlySafair R8 sale was a wow. The people of Mzansi know nothing is for free, so they made sure they did not miss out. People showered with their devices.

Calling on Mercedes and BMW the man asked nicely for an affordable sale, and by affordable, he means FlySAfair rates, LOL. These snaps hit hard as a lot of people know the struggles they faced to try and get tickets. “I paid someone to monitor the site for me. When there is a crazy sale on, you'd best believe the people of South Africa are going to be there! And I didn't get anything. Logged in at 7:30 logged off at 19:30... 12 hours, 6 devices...

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.

More than a million South Africans took to the internet skies on Wednesday to get their hands on R8 airline tickets from FlySafair. On Thursday, the company ...

“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. On Thursday, the company said 1.7 million South Africans had “flocked to FlySafair’s waiting room to try their luck at getting onto the site to secure the cheap seats”. More than a million South Africans took to the internet skies on Wednesday to get their hands on R8 airline tickets from FlySafair.

FlySafair's random selection process has left some South Africans angered after over a million people were left in the budget airline's virtual 'waiting ...

FlySafair’s sale was the topic of the day and trended on Twitter when South Africans shared their hilarious comments and memes on social media platforms. He described the chance of bagging the tickets as “pretty slim” and compared the feeling to winning the lottery. During an interview with Business Insider South Africa Gordon said it is human nature to be more vocal when upset and that the company has made peace with the criticisms.