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Yuletide: Air Peace Explains Reason Behind Expensive Flight Ticket To South Eastern States
Renowned Nigerian airline, Air Peace has revealed the reason its flight tickets to South-Eastern states are expensive.
The carrier’s clarification comes amid allegation that it was extorting South-Eastern travelers known to always travel back to their hometowns for the Christmas festivity. The allegations had sparked social media attacks against the airline, with users blaming the carrier and other airlines of exploiting passengers by charging exorbitant costs.
Naija News reports that the airline in a statement on Monday explained that the reason for the increase in prices of tickets to South-Eastern states was as a result of the increased demand for flight tickets and high passenger traffic to the region.
The airline stated that it had seen multiple social media posts from people who claimed that Air Peace was using “high ticket fares” to extract money from Easterners.
The airline said that by insinuating that Air Peace has been pricing tickets in a way that benefits Northerners over Easterners, the claims makers were trying to foment ethnic hostilities against the airline and its chairman, Allen Onyema.
“This is not just applicable to domestic airline fare systems, even the international airline fare system follows the same principle.
“The Eastern routes’ increased demand for flight tickets/high passenger traffic this season automatically impacts the way the aircraft seats get sold. The seats get sold out faster than some routes with less traffic. Therefore, the airline booking engine reservation system displays the higher fares faster even though eventually, the higher fares will get displayed on the less traffic routes as the seats get fuller too.”
