A decision that comes at the worst time, for companies with not always well-stocked cash, after two years of pandemic.
As these companies saw the end of the storm “covid“and could hope to partially redo the icing on the coming summer, the government has decided otherwise.
For some directions, it has even come time to sound the alarm.
“It is not not possible to make a company profitable with such prices. You add the pressure of the prefects and the fact that we can’t do double import… It’s complicated,“Over a person in charge.
This increase will permanently penalize players in the sector, with fuel exceeding 1,400 dollars per ton when the initial business models had been designed for amounts of around 700 dollars.
Deprived of a minister since last April, the transport and tourism sectors no longer have a lobbyist at the highest level of the state to make their (bad) fate heard.
Especially since this price increase echoes a battle between companies to take market share, in particular the largest of them: Air France.
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Since the summer of 2021, this has been inexorably striving to completely disrupt yield management, on overseas lines by setting up overcapacities that have become deadly for competitors.
“Air France has totally destroyed yield management, fares no longer reflect the reality of the market. Due to the oversupply, we all sell at the same price, with prices that are the same as in 2019,“laments an airline boss.
The national company therefore prevents its competitors from recovering their health, by taking advantage of the enthusiasm of the French for holidays in 2022.
At the last congress of Travel Companies in Punta Cana, Marc Rochet the general manager of Air Caraïbes had given a layer to denounce the grotesque situation in which the French sky found itself.