{"id":333821,"date":"2026-03-11T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/333821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:45:10","slug":"the-cost-of-flying-set-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/333821\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of flying set to climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG- FlySafair has confirmed it will introduce a temporary fuel surcharge on airline tickets due to soaring oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>The surcharge will come into effect on 12 March. This will apply only to flights departing on or before 12 May 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to FlySafair, the airline has absorbed steep fuel cost increases since the Middle East crisis erupted on 28 February, in an effort to shield passengers from immediate airfare hikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">READ| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/middle-east-conflict-fears-oil-prices-could-send-flight-tickets-soaring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Middle East Conflict |Fears that oil prices could send flight tickets soaring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, with Jet A1 fuel prices at South African coastal airports rising by about 70% in just one week, the airline said it has reached a point where it must act.<\/p>\n<p>This means the airline would have to pass on a portion of these costs to ensure the long-term sustainability of the airline and its low fare offering.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Marketing Officer Kirby Gordon added that they would be specifically itemising this temporary dynamic fuel surcharge on all tickets to ensure fairness and transparency to our customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG- FlySafair has confirmed it will introduce a temporary fuel surcharge on airline tickets due to soaring oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-333821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}