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– It will become difficult to reach Corsica.
While the government plans to increase the price of plane tickets in order to reduce the public deficit, you should not delay making your purchases if you have planned to go to Corsica in 2025. Indeed, the executive could triple the solidarity tax on plane tickets to free up an additional billion euros each year. On a long haul, the price would increase from 60 to 200 eurosreports France 3 Corsica. On average, it will cost an additional four euros per trip, and per passenger, between Corsica and the continent.
If an amendment should be tabled as part of the finance bill, François-Xavier Ceccoli, deputy for the 2nd constituency of Haute-Corse, deplored this future increase in plane ticket prices. If he declares to support “the effort to redress our financial situation”, “as an elected official from Corsica, it is my duty to underline the particularly detrimental impacts that this increase would inevitably have on the service to our island”he added.
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6,000 medical trips each year between Corsica and the continent
According to François-Xavier Ceccoli, “When you live in Corsica, a metropolitan island region, traveling by plane to the continent is not a luxury”. He insists that it is above all “a necessity often dictated by health or professional reasons”adding that the boat alternative cannot be used in all circumstances.
Thus, this fear has been reported by sick associations in Corsica, who are necessarily against this idea since every year, 6,000 medical trips are made between the Isle of Beauty and the continent. Airlines are also worried because they fear a loss of competitiveness in an already very competitive sector. As a reminder, plane tickets in France are among the most taxed in the world.
