Now that the corona measures are slowly being relaxed after a long time, aviation is also slowly starting up again. But who dares to get on a plane in these uncertain corona times. Normally, few passengers provide high prices. In fact, you would expect airline tickets to become much more expensive after a massive crisis like this. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to a price comparison that business channel BNR requested from booking site Travix and Skyscanner.

'We mainly see the price drop for the months of July and August,' says Steffen Boon of comparison site Travix (from CheapTickets and Vliegwinkel.nl). 'There are still many seats to be sold in a very short time. Since the beginning of last week, we have seen a huge increase in search behavior compared to last year. However, it remains below average '.

Air tickets for this summer to all kinds of popular destinations are on average twenty percent cheaper than last year. Flight tickets to destinations such as Turkey and France are even 25 percent cheaper than last year. If you fly to Italy this will save you 30 percent, and to Athens even 40 percent compared to last year. All this while the aviation industry is experiencing the worst year in history worldwide. According to aviation organization IATA, the corona crisis worldwide is a loss of $ 84 billion this year. According to IATA, the loss for Europe alone is $ 21,5 billion.

Welt writes that the Austrian government has previously announced that it will make the prices of airline tickets on flights up to 350 kilometers more expensive. This announcement was made during the presentation on a Lufthansa rescue package. There will be a surcharge of about 30 euros on these short flights. The Austrian government is doing this to make short flights less attractive. They are against cheap airlines that make a profit at the expense of the environment. An airline ticket will cost at least 40 euros.

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