Flight Centre stops selling SAA plane tickets with immediate effect

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Flight Centre stops selling SAA plane tickets with immediate effect
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Flight Centre will no longer sell SAA flight tickets.

In another blow to SAA, Flight Centre said on Thursday that it would no longer be selling tickets aboard the embattled national carrier.As of midday on Thursday, leading travel retailer Flight Centre stopped selling packages or airline tickets on SAA.

It is another blow to the national carrier, which only just came back online after a weeklong strike.Andrew Stark told TimesLIVE that the decision came because of the risks associated with SAA at the moment. He said the “final straw which broke the camel's back” was news on Wednesday that the company's preferred travel insurer Travel Insurance Consultant decided that it would not cover passengers using SAA should flights be grounded.

He added that “mixed signals” from government over an SAA bailout also contributed to the uncertainty over the airline's future — and, ultimately, to Flight Centre's risk. The risks were especially high for customers heading into the peak December travel season, where if things went wrong it would be ““It's indefinite [and took] immediate effect from midday today [Thursday].

Those who wished to stay on SAA could do so, but risk not being covered should the flight not happen.“But they completely understood where we were coming from. It's a very very sad state of affairs. The reality is that it's business, and we have to take the emotional side of it,” he said.

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