As part of his election program, Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz wants to adapt travel within Germany.
This includes: a minimum price for flights.
In the spirit of sustainability, the election promise of the SPD chancellor candidate Scholz includes changes for trips to Germany and Europe.
In particular, he wants to abolish cheap flights and introduce a minimum price of 50 euros or even 60 euros.
A similar model is already a reality in other countries.
Minimum price for airline tickets - Austrian model
In Austria, the minimum price for flights is already being implemented, as
reisetopia
reports.
The prices depend on the length of the flight.
The so-called anti-dumping clause stipulates that a flight must not be cheaper than 40 euros.
Scholz also wants to adjust the prices for flight tickets according to this model.
"
No flight can be cheaper than the airport charges and all the other fees that arise for them,
" he explained on the ProSieben Spezial Live program.
He's mainly responding to cheap flights within Europe.
While the EU is striving for free pricing, Scholz advocates a price limit.
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Traveling within Germany: train or flight?
The SPD also sees potential for change when it comes to traveling within the country.
So that should
rail travel
more attractive and German domestic flights largely restricted
to.
And here, too, a neighboring country is setting an example.
In France, rail travel has been used for a long time.
The network has been adapted accordingly.
In the future, all flights there whose destinations can be reached by train within two and a half hours are to be banned.
However, it is questionable to what extent such a regulation can be implemented in Germany.
After all, the country does not yet have the necessary route network.
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All in all, Scholz not only wants to make long-distance transport more attractive and cheaper.
He also
plans to
expand local transport
in his election manifesto.
He spoke out in favor of so-called 365-euro tickets within municipalities and districts.
It is still unclear whether and to what extent a minimum price for flight tickets can be implemented.
It also remains to be seen what effects this will have on wage dumping and the fight against climate change.
(swa)
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