FlySafair’s site goes down as customers race for Wayde-inspired R43 tickets

15 August 2016 - 15:18 By TMG Digital

South Africans scrambled to get their hands on R43 tickets from low-cost airline FlySafair which celebrated athlete Wayde van Niekerk’s record-breaking run with cheap flights on Monday. To honour Wayde's record we have 400 R43.03 seats on select flights till 28/8! Book @ https://t.co/WHR2Gnrr18. *T&Cs pic.twitter.com/5lIGdu6ILN— FlySafair (@FlySafair) 15 August 2016FlyJudging by an error message displayed on the airline’s web page‚ a deluge of enquiries may have caused the server to crash.“Web server is returning an unknown error‚” said the page...

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