Study on ticket prices
German flight passengers have to pay more
It was cheap yesterday: since the Corona crisis, the prices for flight tickets have been increasing in Germany. The self -proclaimed low -cost airlines also collect vigorously on many routes.
If you want to fly from a German airport this summer, you usually have to dig deeper into your pocket. Even with the so-called low-cost aircraft, the tickets have become much more expensive, as can be seen from a study by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The reasons for the high prices are still a close range of flight as well as high fees and taxes.
DLR researchers Peter Berster reports that entry prices such as 9.90 euros or 19.90 euros are far away. For a one-way ticket without luggage, you use an average of almost 67 euros (Wizz Air) and 130 euros (Eurowings).
An airline lowers the prices
A year ago, the range of 66 to 110 euros was enough. Back then, Ryanair was the cheapest provider. For the Irish, the average ticket price now rose from 66 to around 80 euros within one year. The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings demands an average of 130 instead of 110 euros for the simple flight and thus remains the most expensive, but also the largest provider. Easyjet lands again in midfield with a small increase from 84 to 86 euros. Wizz Air, especially in Eastern Europe, was the only airline to lower its average price from 94 to 67 euros.
High taxes and fees
German airports are among the most expensive in Europe in state taxes and fees, and recently found the ADAC when analyzing 120 short -haul routes. It was therefore only more expensive than in Frankfurt (58.60 euros per passenger) and Munich (49.06 euros). Even Hanover was a more expensive patch with 42.13 euros than the international hub London-Heathrow (41.22 euros). In contrast, the levies in Berlin-Brandenburg were comparatively cheap with 22.23 euros.
A good five years after the outbreak of covid pandemic, German air traffic has still not completely recovered from the shock. The flight schedule up to and including November shows a seat offer of 93 percent compared to the same period in 2019, as the BDL industry association reports. In the other European countries, the offer has long since surpassed the values at that time by 10 percent.
The German market is therefore significantly behind because the low -cost airlines in particular make a wide arc around the expensive airports. According to BDL, the Low Coster offer is 85 percent of the pre -crisis level in Germany, and in addition to Europe it is 133 percent. The association calls for the withdrawal of air traffic tax and the federal participation in the air safety costs.
Ryanair can earn more elsewhere
The industry giant Ryanair grew strongly to Corona, last year with more than 200 million passengers flew as many people through Europe as no other company. However, the offer was reduced at German airports such as Hamburg or Berlin. “I can no longer station aircraft in Germany if you fly in better returns in the rest of Europe,” says airline boss Eddie Wilson of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
The Irish as well as the competition Easyjet or Wizz Air use their planes in markets with lower input costs because they reach their profit threshold faster there. The gaps in the German market mostly conclude Eurowings, which is profitable in the current year with higher prices.
Wilson has been offering the German state for some time: Ryanair can quickly double its fleet stationed in Germany to 60 aircraft if the costs drop on the other. The air traffic tax must be abolished and various fees reduced, the airline boss is now also demanding from the new federal government.
A ticket costs 500 euros
For the DLR study, a variety of European connections with four different advance booking periods between one day and three months were evaluated on the DLR study. Tickets booked at short notice are usually the most expensive. One day before departure, they cost an average of 119 (Wizz Air) and 169 euros (Eurowings). With a booking period of three months, the average prices are 46 euros (Ryanair) up to 90 euros (Eurowings).
The DLR researchers discovered the highest ticket price of 499.99 euros at Eurowings for a flight from Düsseldorf to Stockholm with a pre-booking period of one week. The same flight the next day, on the other hand, should only cost 199.99 euros.
The ideal time for booking
This proves the ADAC statement that there is no ideal booking time. Earlier bookings tend to be cheaper. Because of the dynamic pricing of the airlines, the price can also decrease in the run -up to a flight to boost demand. There are no certain days of the week with the best price guarantee.
ADAC short-haul comparison press release BDL DLR study on location costs in German air traffic
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Source: Stern
