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Travelers queue at check-in at Stuttgart Airport
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The managing director of Stuttgart Airport, Walter Schoefer, 66, assumes that the airlines will raise prices across the board: "Flying will have to become more expensive," Schoefer told the "Südwest Presse".
This was due solely to rising energy prices and high inflation.
“There will no longer be flights for 9.90 or 29.90 euros.”
Schoefer sees airlines that aggressively advertise for customers with comparatively cheap flights, but still have an advantage over more expensive competitors: "If groceries become more expensive in general, the discounter is not the first to give up on the supplier side."
Stuttgart Airport sees itself prepared for the first big wave of summer holiday travel this weekend.
As the only one of the larger German airports, during the corona pandemic, “nobody was laid off, it’s now paying off,” said Schoefer.
At a number of airports in other federal states, there were chaotic scenes at the start of the summer holidays there because there were no staff at check-in and at the control gates.
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