Humanitarian flights cost double since May 1 and have less aircraft due to lack of funds from donors.
UN Humanitarian Air Services or UNHAS increased its prices and a single journey costs from 200 to 400 US Dollars. A return ticket from Juba to Leer Ð a trip of about 90 minutes with a stopover in Rumbek, now costs 800 dollars.A return ticket from Juba to Frankfurt, in Germany, can cost less than 600 dollars.
UNHAS says that at the end of March it received 5.74 million dollars from donors and had pledges for another 4.9 million.
The service run by World Food Programme has a budget of 31.6 million US dollars.
Cuts in funding led to the reduction of UNHAS fleet from 11 to eight aircraft.
UNOCHA said the cut that may affect the humanitarian air access especially during the rainy season.
UNHAS provides air transport to remote areas of South Sudan.