Passengers will indirectly pay part of the new airport tax. Included in the 2024 budget, the new tax on “long-distance transport infrastructure”, which targets airports but especially motorway concessions, should provide 600 million euros per year to finance the ecological transition, according to government. But the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) group has already warned that this new tax will affect airlines and, therefore, ultimately, their passengers.
“I have the responsibility of defending the interests of all shareholders, starting with the State, which has 51%.” [des parts] but also to foreign shareholders whom we invite to come and invest in France. […]. We must wait for Parliament to vote on this tax and then it will be up to me to see to what extent I react,” declared this Thursday morning the general director of Paris Airports, Augustin de Romanet, on France Inter. Through the voice of his boss Anne Rigail, he had already denounced last month a “new distortion of competition” that “will harm” companies.
Carbon-free air transport
This new tax will be applied from 120 million euros of turnover, as well as an average profitability of 10% in recent years, which will save small airports and concentrate it on the largest ones, in particular the Parisian airports of Roissy -Charles de Gaulle and Orly. or even Nice, Marseille and Lyon.
Furthermore, even without this new tax, “ticket prices will remain high,” said Augustin de Romanet, referring to the goal of carbon-free air transport that must be achieved in 2025.
Source: BFM TV
