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Pressie
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Message 16 of 16 (780636)
03-18-2016 8:59 AM


Thanks guys. I got a reply from a guy working for some major US Airline on my e-mail.
It basically goes like this:
1. Airlines are compelled to charge prices in the country where the journey begins. If a return ticket is bought is SA, by a person with an SA passport, then pricing begins in SA. If a return ticket is bought in the US, by a person with a US passport, then pricing is done in the US.
2. Jo'burg is a so-called high and dry airport. Flights from Jo'burg to the US can't take in the fuel needed for a direct flight. Therefore they have to stop somewhere else to resupply the aircraft with fuel to cross the Atlantic.
3. On the return journey they can make the journy directly, basically because the US airports along the east coast are not high and dry airports.
4. To stop in West Africa on the way from Jo'burg is very expensive.
Apparently not many of the airports in those countries are considered to be 'safe' airports. To land there is considered to be risky by their insurance companies and very expensive. For a flight to land over there to take on fuel is also very expensive. Those airports charge a lot of money just to land, refuel and take off again. The taxes and insurance paid to land there apparently are more than what the total amount paid by the passengers for the flights are.
That's why direct return flights from Jo'burg to the US are expensive.
5. For these reasons it is less expensive to land somewhere in Europe, then carry on with the flight later. Landing rights, taxes, etc. are cheaper in Europe than in West Africa. And the safety factor with accompanying insurance is around 60% cheaper in Europe.
It is starting to make some sense now.
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