You might recall the online mayhem of previous years, when travellers went mad for the chance to bag a cut-price FlySafair fare. And to be fair, it is a pretty darn good deal.
Starting at 9am on May 7, 2025, FlySafair will sell 50,000 seats across its domestic flight network for R11 each. Eleven bucks! That’s the same price as a litre of milk, a Bar-One, or 22 Chappies!
Perhaps even more impressive is that the fare includes the airport tax. On a typical flight from Cape Town to OR Tambo International Airport, airport taxes and aviation levies account for R875 of what you would usually pay!
The sale takes place exclusively on FlySafair’s website – flysafair.co.za – and, as with previous sales, prospective flyers will have to take a number in a virtual waiting room to ensure the FlySafair website isn’t overwhelmed by demand. Once (or if) you’re let out of the waiting room and onto the site, you’ll have 10 minutes to complete your booking, so start checking your diary for dates.
To pass the time, the airline states that you will be able to play a new waiting room game, Flappy Plane. Nice.
“The waiting room helps to manage the traffic to the website, while also giving everyone a fair chance to access the sale,” says Kirby Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer at FlySafair. “The waiting room works like a lottery and will allow people access randomly. So some people might only wait a few minutes to get in, while others may wait longer. It all depends on when you’re selected to enter.”
Of course, any deal this good has to have terms and conditions, right? Well, the same applies here.
Departure dates for the mega sale’s flights are for travel up to 30 November 2025
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