“Despite this dynamic, and with the exception of Guyana, ticket prices remain lower than in 2019,” said the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
Average airfare prices on routes between mainland France and abroad rose by 13.5% year-on-year in March, while generally remaining below 2019 levels, according to official figures released on Thursday.
†The first quarter of 2022 ends with a 6.1% increase in air ticket prices from France compared to March 2021, all destinations combinedaccording to the government published Air Passenger Transport Price Index (IPTAP).
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This increase, which takes place in a context of the gradual resumption of air transport after the health crisis, inflation and the conflict in Ukraine that pushed up oil prices, hides strong disparities. In reality, “departing from mainland France, prices increased by 1.0% on the domestic network and 6.2% on the international network compared to March 2021“, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, which publishes the IPTAP monthly. And in detail, the virtual stability of prices between French destinations is the result of very contrasting situations between “a sharp drop in ticket prices on intra-urban routes (-8.3%) and a strong increase on the Métropole-Outre-mer network (+13.5%)†
Particularly marked from Reunion
The trend is even stronger when leaving the overseas departments: an increase in the price of airline ticketsparticularly important with an increase of 14.3%more than a year, the ministry notes. †This trend affects the four departments, but it is again from Réunion that prices show the largest increases, both on intra-OM routes and to mainland France (+30%).said the same source.
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†Despite these dynamics, and with the exception of Guyana, ticket prices remain lower than in 2019“, before the Covid-19 crisis that drained the planes and prompted the companies to reduce their rotations. The routes between mainland France and the overseas territories were among the routes that both resisted the most and made the most marked recovery, a phenomenon consistent with their role of territorial continuity.
According to the latest figures from Groupe ADP, manager of Paris airports, these connections had recovered 82.5% of their March 2019 level last month, while all bundles combined, Orly and Roissy last month had only 68.7% of their passengers. recovered three years ago.
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