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Between €6 and €14. This is what Volotea was asking its passengers for as a supplement to offset the surge in kerosene prices. A supplement discreetly named "Fair Travel Promise", which the company justified as follows during a booking: "At Volotea, instead of applying fixed fuel surcharges which only increase the price of your ticket,..."

The BDL - Bundesverband der Deutschen Luftverkehrswirtschaft (Federation of the German Air Transport Industry) - has just published its annual review of German air transport. It's a gloomy assessment, even if there are signs of a timid recovery. The findings are bitter indeed. According to Joachim Lang, Managing Director of the BDL,...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is looking for new resources to fill the gaping hole in Japan's public finances. And what better way than to tax travellers, who have the weakness of not being voters? It's a classic formula, and Japan has never...

Here's some news that's going to spoil the holidays for the French air transport industry. The government, still desperate to make up the public deficit, is considering taxing... air transport! The idea is extremely original. But it is true that the measure is well received by some sections of public opinion,...

Airline bosses are not likely to appreciate the comedy of repetition... No sooner has the increase in the solidarity tax come into force than another levy is being considered by eight countries. Alongside France, this eclectic coalition includes Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, the United States and the...

German newspapers point out that the new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who is due to take office on 1 May, is an unconditional air traveller. And that he would have a sympathetic ear to the air industry's recriminations about over-taxation in Germany, a factor that discourages airlines from landing...

Transavia is used to a light-hearted approach to communication which often has a positive effect on social networks, but this time it has opted for a bad buzz... The fault lies with a surcharge applied after booking, which is causing - at the very least - incomprehension among its French customers. Accustomed to...

Whether you like Ryanair or not, the Irish ultra-low-cost carrier is Europe's leading airline: 197.1 million passengers carried in 2024, 94 bases in 37 European countries, 237 destinations and 610 aircraft. Its success is reflected in the load factor of its aircraft: 92% in the third quarter of its financial year...

François Bayrou unleashed his first 49.3 on the 2025 budget on Monday 3 February in the National Assembly. With the rejection of two motions of censure tabled on 5 February, France's 2025 budget has finally been adopted. It still has to go through the Senate, however, but it is unlikely that any major changes will be made to the...

The rejection of the budget and the fall of the Barnier government had frozen the application of the increase in the solidarity tax on airline tickets (TSBA). The Bayrou government has since set about bringing it back into force. The Joint Committee of seven MPs and seven senators finally confirmed the return of the increase...

This would probably be the only good news if the Barnier government fell. The appointment of a new government and the review of the 2025 budget could mean a delay in the application of the increase in the solidarity levy. Or even a complete review. Nothing is less certain, but there is a possibility that the...

At the Palais Bourbon, the Senators also discussed the future air transport tax rates proposed by the French government. A fortnight ago, the Members of Parliament approved these rates, while excluding the French overseas departments and territories and Corsica. And limiting the measure to one year. Backtracking in the Senate,...

The FNAM and UAF have joined forces to alert public decision-makers to the dangers of over-taxing a sector that is vital to the French economy and employment. A study by Deloitte analyses the impact of air transport and highlights its importance in the current context of the tripling of the Solidarity Tax...

A bad surprise for business travellers. Air France made a fare adjustment on 24 October. The airline had already anticipated the French government's proposal to increase the solidarity tax. Ticket prices are once again being adjusted to take account of this increase. Air France has in fact decided to apply a scale such as...

We've often talked about it on the Voyages d'Affaires website: the increase in taxes on air transport in Germany is now having a major impact on the development of air travel in that country. The decision by the French authorities to multiply air taxes and charges between three and eight times through the "Solidarity Tax on...

There is a great deal of concern, incomprehension and mobilisation in the skies over France. The cause, of course, is the new tax envisaged by the government to replenish its coffers as part of the Finance Bill. Through the FNAM (Fédération nationale de l'aviation et de ses métiers) and the UAF (Union des aéroports...

The airline industry is once again up in arms over an idea put forward by Michel Barnier's new government to reduce France's abysmal deficit: raising taxes on air transport. There's nothing original about this idea, which is often seen as an easy way to bring money into the budget....

On 1 May, a further increase in air taxes for passengers came into force in Germany. And it's a substantial one: +19%, i.e. a tax that now ranges from €15.53 to €70.83 depending on the route. This increase has sent airlines into a frenzy. "At a time when Germany's economic performance is at a...

The government's budget announcement of a special tax on airports (as well as on motorway concession companies) should inevitably result in higher air fares. The government estimates that this green tax will bring in €600 million a year. This sum will be allocated to modernising the network...

Who still remembers the Solidarity Tax, known as the Chirac Tax, on airline tickets? Introduced in 2006 by the government of former President Jacques Chirac, this tax was already modulated according to the class of travel. As of 1 January 2020, it will apply at a rate of €2.61 within the EU and EEA and...