South Africa’s remaining domestic airlines are likely to remain under pressure for the next four to five months, says Flysafair CEO, Elmar Conradie – with limited flights and rising input costs keeping ticket prices higher than before.
In the post-Covid months, Conradie said that there had been a lag between supply and demand for air travel in the country, with demand bouncing back almost immediately but airlines struggling to restore capacity.
He added that there are a lot of routes that are left unserviced. Things are improving – but it’s a slow process. To address this, FlySafair added more flights at the start of September 2022, with even more flight capacity being launched in October, Conradie said. The group hopes to get additional planes in the sky by December – bringing three new planes in total – with further capacity coming in 2023.
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