@Capture Twitter Charlotte Gillard
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Respect for social distancing on board with a unoccupied seat between two passengers, at the cost of one more expensive plane ticket ? Airlines, which seek to regain the confidence of travelers during deconfinement, are reluctant to increase their prices.
” As it stands, you can’t fly planes that are only two-thirds full and profitable. Either the plane can fly and we earn a tiny bit of money on the flight, or it can’t fly… or we increase the price of tickets and it’s at least 50%, it’s not nothing“, Said yesterday again to BFMTV Alexandre de Juniac, president of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and ex-CEO of Air France-KLM. ” The sector has been fighting for 30 years to be open to the greatest number and not to be reserved for the privileged few. And he does it pretty well. If we were to increase our prices, it would be a considerable decline“, He stressed.
Currently, in the absence of clear European Union (EU) regulations, airlines do what they want. The French Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, called for harmonization of health rules: ” The European Union has a key role to play in defining concrete solutions to ensure good harmonization of the rules during deconfinement for transport“He said in a statement after an informal meeting of EU transport ministers was held on Wednesday.
For the time being, low cost Ryanair has declared that it will not take off if it has to lock a seat between two passengers because it will not be able to make room. The low cost easyJet is not against the principle, claiming to study the possibility of not selling the middle seat on board its aircraft when restarting its activities. In fact, not offering the middle seat is fairly simple on the short / medium-haul routes, provided by single-aisle planes which are arranged in rows of three seats – it is therefore enough to leave the place of the middle free. On the other hand, social distancing is less simple on long-haul planes, with rows of 2, 3 and up to 4 or 5 seats in Economy class.
Air France, for its part, juggles between two solutions. It enforces social distancing when the occupancy is less than 70%, and distributes masks to passengers when it is higher than 70% … Even if it means creating incomprehension, even anger, among passengers who travel on a full flight. But are they willing to pay 50% more for their plane tickets?
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