More trouble in the middle of the travel chaos: Eurowings raises prices
Created: 07/08/2022 17:36
In the middle of the holiday season, Eurowings announces that it will increase its fares by 10 percent.
The main reason for this is the rising oil prices.
Cologne – Stranded suitcases and delayed flights: Traveling is hard enough at the moment.
Eurowings Managing Director Jens Bischof has now announced in an interview that flying will become more expensive.
Ticket prices are expected to increase by 10 percent.
But Bischof also has good news for consumers, the travel chaos at the airports should soon subside.
“The era of ultra-cheap tickets is clearly over.
Flying is becoming more expensive and must also become more expensive,” says Eurowings boss Jens Bischof.
In an interview with
rp-online.de
, Bischof said that Eurowings now has a three-digit million increase in costs.
The high sum is due to the oil price shock.
Meanwhile, there is no recovery in sight as oil prices continue to rise.
Airline Eurowings increases ticket prices
Bischof says: "Accordingly, we will have to adjust our tariffs, which are already about ten percent more expensive than in 2019, by at least another ten percent".
Overall, that would be a price increase of 20 percent.
"Economically and ecologically, it made little sense that aggressive competitors with airfares at the value of a cinema ticket painted a completely wrong picture of our industry," said Bischof in the interview.
Flying to the Mediterranean for 5 euros is history.
Passengers can still prepare for possible travel chaos at the airports.
Bischof says the airline industry lost about 150,000 jobs during the pandemic.
During the holiday season, this mainly leads to a lack of staff in baggage processing and at security checks.
Due to the pandemic, many pilots were unable to start their training flights.
This also creates another bottleneck.
Corona also led to illness-related absences.
At the start of the summer holidays in NRW, more than 10 percent of employees called in sick.
Germany during the holiday season: Bishop sees the end of travel chaos
But Bishop is also optimistic.
The time of delayed and canceled flights is slowly coming to an end.
More than 95 percent of the travelers could be brought to their holiday destination, he says.
He already sees flight operations stabilizing at the start of the summer holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia.
(vk)