Passengers must prepare for higher ticket prices with Lufthansa. The company says it intends to pass on part of the costs for additional environmental regulations.
Flying is getting even more expensive. Lufthansa will be charging a new type of environmental fee for flights from next year, as it announced on Tuesday. This is intended to pass on part of the costs that arise from environmental regulations in the EU. This refers, for example, to the expanded, partly voluntary emissions trading system or sustainably produced bio-kerosene (SAF), which must be added to fuel from next year in accordance with EU regulations.
The fee depends on the length of the flight and is said to be between 1 and 72 euros. The specialist portal “fvw” was the first to report this. Lufthansa shows the fee for take-offs of all its group airlines in all 27 EU countries as well as in Great Britain, Norway and Switzerland. The only exception are tickets on the eurowings.com platform, where customers are only shown gross prices.
Airlines have already disclosed individual price components from time to time in the past. The best-known example is the kerosene surcharge, which has since been discontinued. With the new environmental fee, it remains unclear what share of the additional regulatory costs passengers should bear. Individual payments to mitigate the climate impact of a flight remain possible.
Source: Stern
