Lhe deputies, who are examining the draft 2025 budget, approved last week the increase in taxation on air transport proposed by the government. The latter, however, agreed to limit the duration of the increase in the solidarity tax on plane tickets (TSBA, known as the “Chirac tax”) to one year and excluding overseas and Corsica from the system. This exclusion, however, raises questions, such a mechanism for adjusting the same tax in 2019 having already been rejected by Brussels. However, European Union law has not changed. In Bercy, the parent company of French taxation, we would not have noticed it… As for the limitation to one year, we must believe in it very strongly, knowing that it is always simpler to renew an existing provision.
In cockpits, in aircraft cabins, in maintenance centers, airports or ground services, we worry. Right or wrong. The motivation of pilots for a strike, which does not directly concern their remuneration, remains modest and the national management of the National Union of Line Pilots (SNPL) is calling more for a mobilization of its members than for a strike. No strike slogan from SNPL Air France, SNPL Air Caraibes or SNPL Corsair. On Thursday, flights will operate and depart on time (at least as usual).
Professionals protected by regulations
To tell the truth, we can question the purpose of the actions of the flight crew. Unless there is a significant drop in traffic, the future of the profession is never threatened, protected by very strict rules of use. Thus, the international ratio of one cabin crew per fifty passengers is essential regardless of the type of aircraft with more than twenty seats. By a few divisions and multiplications, from traffic forecasts in terms of number of passengers, we can know the number of hostesses and stewards to be trained each year in a specific country, or in the world.
Likewise, still in commercial passenger transport, two pilots must be at the controls of an aircraft, reinforced beyond 8-9 hours of flight by a third, or even a fourth for 12-14 hours. Employment is defended, guided by civil aviation codes which protect against possible excesses in mergers and acquisitions.
Moderate and symbolic increases
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The TSBA increase is expected to raise prices on plane tickets for Economy class flights from 2.60 euros per passenger to 9.50 euros, for a European destination, from 7.50 euros to 15 euros for medium-haul destinations, and from 7.50 euros to 40 for long-haul destinations, according to the general budget rapporteur, Charles de Courson (Liot).
ALSO READ Air transport, the battle for QuebecFriday, November 8, the general director of Air France-KLM, Benjamin Smith, reaffirmed his opposition and estimated that by excluding the overseas territories and Corsica from this tax increase, the deputies had “recognized” the risks of a such a measure for “the competitiveness of French companies”. For twenty years, the French flag has lost 1% of traffic per year, which goes to less taxed foreign companies.
