According to the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (Fnam), which brings together the sector, this increase, which companies will not be able to absorb and will have to pass on to the price of tickets, “could lead to a reduction in traffic in 2025 of 2% on average across the entire territory.
Destruction of 11,500 jobs
This would still be a “conservative scenario”, because this decline could be even greater in certain airports, in particular those welcoming low-cost companies whose customers are more sensitive to prices, assured the president of Fnam , Pascal de Izaguirre.
According to Fnam, the increase in taxation “would lead, without taking into account the catalytic effects on the rest of the French economy, to the destruction of 11,500 jobs and a loss of tax revenue of more than 500 million euros for the 'State “. The public authorities “have not taken into account the added value of transport for our country and the destructive effects that this will have on other sectors of activity”, such as tourism, regretted the President of the Union of French airports, Thomas Juin.
Fnam also warned against the attack on territorial continuity that an increase in ticket prices between mainland France and overseas would constitute, and warned that this additional tax drain would make it more difficult to achieve zero net emissions. of CO2 by 2050.
“Increasing taxation in such proportions obviously jeopardizes our ability to achieve these ambitions” by renewing fleets and purchasing fuel of non-fossil origin, argued for his part the Deputy Director General and Secretary General. of Air France-KLM, Alexandre Boissy.
Business aviation too
According to a Deloitte study commissioned by Fnam and disclosed on Tuesday, the airline sector supports nearly 568,000 full-time equivalent jobs, direct, indirect and induced, and “generates 52 billion euros of added value, the equivalent of 1. 8% of gross domestic product” (GDP).
Also targeted by the PLF, which plans to make its passengers contribute an additional 150 million euros per year, business aviation also warned on Tuesday against the “disastrous consequences” that this measure would have. “unreasonable increase” on its activity.
