Airlines in France are warning the government that if it persists with its plan to tax them to the tune of €1 billion from January 2025, the sector will suffer. ” This will reduce airfares by 2 % air traffic “says Pascal de Izaguirre, CEO of Corsair and President of the Fnam (Fédération national de l’aviation et de ses métiers).

More precisely, instead of growing by 2%, the French air transport market will remain stable. This is because airlines will not be able to absorb the increase in the Chirac tax on airline tickets. They will therefore pass them on in ticket prices. Air France-KLM has been doing so since the end of October for all bookings for flights from 1 October onwards.^er January.

This will reduce air traffic by 2%.

Pascal de Izaguirre, CEO of Corsair and Chairman of the Fnam

It’s true that the tax increase is significant: passengers on all types of airlines taking a long-haul flight (Paris-New York, for example) in business class will have to pay 120 euros instead of 63 euros. Less spectacularly, the increase in the TSBA (solidarity tax on airline tickets) from 2.63 euros to 9 euros for intra-European flights in economy class, also risks discouraging the less financially comfortable passengers from taking the plane.

If the Fnam sounded the alarm on Monday, it’s because the situation is urgent: on November 8, members of parliament passed the amendment fixing this increase in the fare on first reading. Chirac tax.