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Price of plane tickets goes sky high

Long-term planning: The days of cheap last-minute travel have gone, with airlines not expecting ticket prices to drop any time soon. Photo: Gallo Images/Jacques Stander

Air travel in South Africa is becoming a privilege of the well-heeled few, with would-be fliers facing a growing scarcity of tickets and industry insiders predicting prices could jump fourfold because of the collapse of Comair.

The cost of international flights has also rocketed, in large part because fuel price rises triggered by the war in Ukraine.

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Anathi Madubela

Anathi Madubela is a business journalist with a keen interest in the retail sector.

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