{"id":216524,"date":"2025-12-13T02:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fccpc-widens-probe-to-curb-exploitative-airfares-on-south-south-south-east-routes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T02:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:45:59","slug":"nigeria-fccpc-widens-probe-to-curb-exploitative-airfares-on-south-south-south-east-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fccpc-widens-probe-to-curb-exploitative-airfares-on-south-south-south-east-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: FCCPC Widens Probe to Curb &#8216;Exploitative&#8217; Airfares On South-South, South-East Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has expanded its investigation into what it suspects may be exploitative airfare practices on key domestic routes, particularly those serving the South-South and South-East, as end of year travel picks up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Commission said rising public complaints over sharp increases in ticket prices and what appears to be coordinated fare movements among some airlines prompted the widened review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The inquiry now focuses on operators flying the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has expanded its investigation into what it suspects may be exploitative airfare practices on key domestic routes, particularly those serving the South-South and South-East, as end of year travel picks up. The Commission said rising public complaints over sharp increases in ticket prices and what appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,53121,10637,53120,53119,257,4687,393,5805,7306,254,14446,26609,10371],"class_list":["post-216524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airfares","tag-curb","tag-exploitative","tag-fccpc","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-probe","tag-routes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southeast","tag-southsouth","tag-widens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}