According to media reports, the airline Eurowings is counting on this further increasing air fares. “Flying for a taxi price is no longer possible,” said Eurowings boss Jens Bischof in the newspapers of the Funke media group, according to a preliminary report.
Bischof expects that Eurowings flights in the holiday season about 20 percent more expensive are still than in the previous year.
reason for the higher flight prices increased kerosene, personnel and airport costs, said the Eurowings boss in an interview. Therefore, no airline can avoid higher ticket prices, it is said.
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According to Bischof, however, there are still travel times when you can fly cheaper. “There is also times of weaker demandin which the prices are at the pre-Corona level,” says the managing director.
At the same time, according to the bishop: “The earlier you book, the cheaper the airfare.”
Great pent-up demand after the Corona pandemic
The demand for private travel is already back at Eurowings above the level of the pandemic yearsaccording to Bishop.
People want to travel again, the backlog demand is enormous after the pandemic.
Jens Bishop, Eurowings
Only business trips are currently 20 percent less in demand than before the pandemic.
The Eurowings boss was also “cautiously optimistic” that it would be this summer there will be no flight chaos, as was the case in 2022. “Easter traffic was the acid test for the summer – and it worked. We’ve done our homework,” said the Eurowings boss.
According to the industry association BDL, the first major wave of air travel of the year at Easter went without any major incidents and excessively long waiting times. Despite the 7 percent increase in passenger numbers to 8.8 million, operations at the airports are still ongoing orderly and largely stable expired, the association said.
BDL President Jost Lammers also praised the passengers. “Many passengers had prepared themselves well for the processes and from the Possibility of online check-in or the automated baggage check-in made use of.”
In close cooperation with politicians and authorities, the industry has already implemented many measures to to stabilize flight operations. This must be promoted in addition to further recruitment for the summer. (tsp, dpa)
