Daily Maverick | 23.05.2026 02:13
Frequent domestic flyers know the quiet comfort of the vacant middle seat. And since FlySafair pioneered the practice of seating up to the bulkhead of the local planes, that privilege has become an ever more endangered species. Low-cost airlines squeeze every gram of efficiency out of each seat, and one of the industry fail-safes has now been passed on for scrutiny by the National Consumer Tribunal (NCT).