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Cheapest flight price inflation and coach price inflation versus the official inflation rate of 3.7%.
|
AVG DATE |
AVG INFL |
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Flight Inflation |
-7.0% |
143.5% |
-14.0% |
9.4% |
-8.7% |
-20.6% |
|
17.1% |
Coach Bus Infla |
-5.6% |
10.3% |
25.0% |
12.3% |
-17.1% |
33.4% |
|
9.7% |
End Date |
17 Sep 10 |
24 Sep 10 |
20 Aug 10 |
27 Aug 10 |
3 Sep 10 |
10 Sep 10 |
6 Sep |
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These are unofficial numbers (air travel is excluded from the basket of goods used to calculate South Africa's official rate of inflation, as a low percentage of South African households purchase air tickets). No attempt has been made to measure inflation in the same manner as Stats SA would. In particular, the rates of inflation are based on the price increases for the cheapest ticket on the route, rather than the whole basket of flight prices.
|
Flight price inflation |
Coach bus price inflation |
Official CPI inflation |
6 Sep 2010 |
17.1% |
+9.7% |
? |
30 Aug 2010 |
-0.9% |
+12.2% |
? |
27 Aug 2010 |
+2.1% |
+5.8% |
? |
2 Aug 2010 |
+0.3% |
+4.0% |
? |
26 Jul 2010 |
+6.4% |
+0.9% |
+3.7% |
5 Jul 2010 |
-3.1% |
+7.6% |
+3.7% |
28 Jun 2010 |
+9.2% |
+8.4% |
+4.2% |
21 Jun 2010 |
+6.9% |
+7.9% |
+4.2% |
14 Jun 2010 |
+1.3% |
+6.8% |
+4.2% |
7 Jun 2010 |
+2.7% |
+2.6% |
+4.2% |
31 May 2010 |
+3.8% |
+3.9% |
+4.6% |
24 May 2010 |
-1.2% |
-1.5% |
+4.6% |
17 May 2010 |
-3.5% |
-2.7% |
+4.6% |
10 May 2010 |
+1.2% |
-5.2% |
+4.6% |
3 May 2010 |
-4.9% |
-4.4% |
+4.6% |
26 Apr 2010 |
-6.0% |
-2.7% |
+4.8% |
19 Apr 2010 |
+0.3% |
-1.9% |
+4.8% |
12 Apr 2010 |
+8.4% |
-2.9% |
+4.8% |
5 Apr 2010 |
+1.9% |
-2.6% |
+4.8% |
29 Mar 2010 |
+0.1% |
+6.4% |
+5.1% |
22 Mar 2010 |
+5.8% |
+4.0% |
+5.1% |
15 Mar 2010 |
+8.0% |
-1.6% |
+5.1% |
8 Mar 2010 |
-3.9% |
-6.0% |
+5.1% |
1 Mar 2010 |
+1.2% |
-3.2% |
+5.1% |
22 Feb 2010 |
+2.4% |
-6.9% |
+5.7% |
15 Feb 2010 |
-0.2% |
-5.5% |
+5.7% |
8 Feb 2010 |
+0.6% |
-2.3% |
+5.7% |
1 Feb 2010 |
-3.3% |
-4.0% |
+5.7% |
25 Jan 2010 |
-3.3% |
-0.8% |
+6.2% |
18 Jan 2010 |
-11.2% |
-0.7% |
+6.2% |
11 Jan 2010 |
-16.0% |
+4.7% |
+6.2% |
4 Jan 2010 |
-10.7% |
+5.0% |
+6.2% |
28 Dec 2009 |
-7.4% |
+4.9% |
+6.3% |
21 Dec 2009 |
-10.3% |
+3.9% |
+6.3% |
14 Dec 2009 |
-7.3% |
+3.8% |
+6.3% |
7 Dec 2009 |
-3.1% |
+1.1% |
+6.3% |
30 Nov 2009 |
-4.7% |
-4.5% |
+5.8% |
23 Nov 2009 |
-12.3% |
-5.6% |
+5.8% |
16 Nov 2009 |
-16.8% |
-10.4% |
+5.8% |
9 Nov 2009 |
-19.1% |
-14.9% |
+5.8% |
2 Nov 2009 |
-20.6% |
-15.9% |
+5.8% |
26 Oct 2009 |
-25.3% |
-13.6% |
+5.9% |
19 Oct 2009 |
-26.7% |
-13.4% |
+5.9% |
12 Oct 2009 |
-23.6% |
-14.4% |
+5.9% |
5 Oct 2009 |
-21.6% |
-12.7% |
+5.9% |
28 Sep 2009 |
-23.7% |
-7.5% |
+6.1% |
21 Sep 2009 |
-22.9% |
-3.2% |
+6.1% |
14 Sep 2009 |
-21.5% |
-4.1% |
+6.1% |
7 Sep 2009 |
-19.3% |
+0.4% |
+6.1% |
31 Aug 2009 |
-12.7% |
+3.5% |
+6.4% |
24 Aug 2009 |
-9.3% |
+4.5% |
+6.4% |
17 Aug 2009 |
-5.3% |
+4.1% |
+6.4% |
10 Aug 2009 |
-6.3% |
-0.8% |
+6.4% |
3 Aug 2009 |
-2.4% |
-1.8% |
+6.4% |
27 Jul 2009 |
-3.4% |
-1.0% |
+6.7% |
20 Jul 2009 |
-5.4% |
-2.0% |
+6.7% |
13 Jul 2009 |
-8.2% |
+2.0% |
+6.7% |
6 Jul 2009 |
+8.9% |
-2.2% |
+6.7% |
29 Jun 2009 |
+9.4% |
-0.1% |
+6.9% |
22 Jun 2009 |
+6.2% |
+1.7% |
+6.9% |
15 Jun 2009 |
+5.0% |
+1.3% |
+6.9% |
8 Jun 2009 |
+1.3% |
+2.7% |
+6.9% |
1 Jun 2009 |
+1.2% |
+4.5% |
+6.9% |
25 May 2009 |
-11.8% |
+5.2% |
+8.0% |
18 May 2009 |
-8.8% |
+8.6% |
+8.0% |
11 May 2009 |
-4.9% |
+13.0% |
+8.0% |
4 May 2009 |
-3.3% |
+16.7% |
+8.0% |
27 Apr 2009 |
-2.7% |
+19.5% |
+8.4% |
20 Apr 2009 |
+7.0% |
- |
- |
13 Apr 2009 |
+11.8% |
- |
- |
6 Apr 2009 |
+8.6% |
- |
- |
30 Mar 2009 |
+6.5% |
- |
- |
23 Mar 2009 |
+16.8% |
- |
- |
16 Mar 2009 |
+23.6% |
- |
- |
9 Mar 2009 |
+25.0% |
- |
- |
2 Mar 2009 |
+22.9% |
- |
- |
23 Feb 2009 |
+31.7% |
- |
- |
16 Feb 2009 |
+22.5% |
- |
- |
9 Feb 2009 |
+14.3% |
- |
- |
2 Feb 2009 |
+0.5% |
- |
- |
26 Jan 2009 |
-2.5% |
- |
- |
19 Jan 2009 |
-1.9% |
- |
- |
12 Jan 2009 |
-7.2% |
- |
- |
5 Jan 2009 |
-4.3% |
- |
- |
29 Dec 2008 |
+5.4% |
- |
- |
22 Dec 2008 |
+8.4% |
- |
- |
Name |
Comment |
|---|---|
Mr Cheap Flights | Graeme, you're absolutely correct. The oil price has dropped about 25% over the last year (in Rand terms), and only the fall in Cape Town to Johannesburg flight prices is close to that. On the other hand, oil isn't the only cost of airlines, and manpower costs for instance would have risen over the period. I suspect that airlines also were cutting fares to the bone at the end of last year and now are trying to make up some ground. |
graeme | What I find interesting is that none of these prices appear to bear any relation to the cost of fuel which i would have thought would be the main determinant of flight price ioinflation, rather these figures seem to imply that the 'inflation' is really just pricing to match supply and demand... |