Average air ticket prices on routes between mainland France and overseas jumped 13.5% in March year-on-year, while remaining overall below 2019 levels, according to official figures released on Thursday. .
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The first quarter of 2022 ends with prices for air tickets departing from France up 6.1% compared to March 2021, all destinations combined
", according to the price index for air passenger transport ( IPTAP) published by the government.
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This increase, which comes in a context of gradual resumption of air transport after the health crisis, inflation and the conflict in Ukraine which boosted oil prices, hides strong disparities.
Indeed, "
from mainland France, prices increase by 1.0% on the domestic network and 6.2% on the international network compared to March 2021
", according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition which publishes the IPTAP all the months.
And in detail, the virtual stability of prices between French destinations is the consequence of very contrasting situations between "
a substantial drop in ticket prices on intra-metropolitan routes (-8.3%) and a sharp increase on the Metropolitan network -Overseas (+13.5%)
”.
Particularly marked from Reunion
The trend is even more marked on departure from the overseas departments: a rise in the price of plane tickets "
particularly significant with prices up 14.3%
" over one year, notes the ministry.
"
This trend affects the four departments but it is again from Reunion that prices show the highest increases, both on intra-OM routes and to mainland France (+30%)
", according to the same source.
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Despite this dynamic, and with the exception of Guyana, the level of ticket prices remains lower than those observed in 2019
”, before the Covid-19 crisis which emptied planes and led companies to reduce their rotations.
The routes between mainland France and the Overseas Territories were among those which both resisted the best and experienced the clearest recovery, a phenomenon consistent with their role of territorial continuity.
According to the latest figures from Groupe ADP, manager of Paris airports, these connections had recovered last month 82.5% of the level of March 2019, while all beams combined, Orly and Roissy only recovered last month 68.7 % of their passengers three years ago.
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