The airline has announced that Eurowings ticket prices will increase by a further ten percent – at least and not only for the Lufthansa subsidiary. Her boss explains that the era of ultra-cheap tickets is clearly over.
The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings wants to increase ticket prices by at least ten percent. “We have cost increases that amount to a three-digit million amount at Eurowings alone,” said airline boss Jens Bischof of the “Rheinische Post”. “Accordingly, we will have to adjust our tariffs, which are already around ten percent more expensive than in 2019, by at least another ten percent.”
Unlike a price adjustment, “the burden of the oil price shock cannot be shouldered,” Bischof continued. The time of ultra-cheap tickets is “clearly over”. “Flying is becoming more expensive and must also become more expensive.” The head of the company also harshly criticized the cheap competition in the industry. “Economically and ecologically, it made little sense that aggressive competitors with airfares worth a cinema ticket painted a completely wrong picture of our industry,” he told the newspaper. Air transport is a very complex service.
Air traffic is currently in a personnel crisis, which is why Lufthansa and its subsidiary Eurowings had to cancel more than a thousand flights planned for July. There are currently long queues at European airports due to a lack of staff.
“The picture that our industry is currently giving does not satisfy anyone – least of all ourselves,” admitted Bischof. Every flight cancellation is one too many. At the same time, airports and airlines are working around the clock to improve the situation as quickly as possible. Short-term deletions are now “very clearly on the retreat”. In addition, the sickness rate is falling again.
