A Flight Centre consultant reportedly found an incorrect Business Class Malaysia Airlines return airfare loaded into the GDS between Bangkok/Phuket and Johannesburg to the sum of around A$400, instead of the RRP of A$4200, according to a report received by e-Travel Blackboard.

e-Travel Blackboard learned of the mishap last week after word spread quickly when the Flight Centre consultant told other industry friends of the incorrect airfare.

It is believed that over 50 J class tickets were ticketed by just one TMC including its management, staff, friends and families, before Malaysia Airlines picked up the error and pulled the fare from the GDS.

The report e-Travel Blackboard received on Friday was that the airline was quoted as saying "They were like pigs at the trough".

The situation now awaits clarification as to whether the traveller, agent, GDS or airline will absorb the cost.

It is not known how many other travel agents ticketed this incorrect MH J class airfare.

Malaysia Airlines declined to comment on Friday.