Will the resumption of air traffic withstand the constant double-digit rise in ticket prices for a long time? Because for more than a year, prices in France have experienced galloping inflation.
Thus, according to data from Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), in March prices continued to increase by 23.8% year-on-year, all destinations together. Since the beginning of the year, the accumulated increase is 23.6%. Last year it reached 21.7%.
Over a year, leaving mainland France, prices increased by 23.1% on the national network with, in months, a particularly strong increase for links abroad with +39.9%.
+57.5% during one year for tickets to Martinique
“Martinique and Guadeloupe again show the strongest increases (respectively +57.5% and +56%), while the departments of Réunion and Guyana show more moderate increases compared to the West Indies (respectively +24.5% and 18 %)”, you can read.
Since the beginning of the year, the total is +40.6% for these destinations. Something to ask questions about the summer tourist season in the West Indies.
The increase is 22.8% over the international network compared to March 2022 with +38.4% for the European Economic Area/Switzerland/United Kingdom package, “the increase continues to be driven mainly by low-cost airlines”, underlines the DGAC. “The cluster of other European countries shows a more restrained increase of 8.2%” we can read
The only exceptions, like the previous month, North Africa and the Levant fell by -6.5%.
Only in long-haul flights, the increase reached 19.8% with “+42.3% for Asia-Pacific, followed by the Middle East and Latin America (18.1% and 17.1% respectively), South America North and sub-Saharan Africa, meanwhile. , show the weakest changes (9.3% and 6.8% respectively)”, explains the DGAC.
Source: BFM TV
