Air Algérie / By cineberg – stock.adobe.com for VVA – Visas & Travel
Travelers to Algeria from France will have to pay more for their plane tickets from the start of next year. The increase in the tax on plane tickets, proposed by the French government, has just been approved by the Senate. This is the final legislative step.
As part of the draft budget for 2025, the French government proposed an amendment to increase the solidarity tax on plane tickets, imposed on all airlines operating from France.
Through this increase, although denounced by the majority of airlines operating in France, the French government intends to pocket an additional billion euros next year.
French Senate approves increase in solidarity tax on plane tickets
Flights to Algeria, including those operated by the national company Air Algérie, will also be affected by this increase. Ticket prices will therefore also have to increase.
This Wednesday, November 27, the French Senate almost unanimously approved the increase in the solidarity tax on plane tickets. The text was adopted by 310 votes in the upper house of Parliament.
The increase in the tax on plane tickets will therefore be applied from next year, and not just for a single year as the deputies had decided, reports Le Parisien this Thursday, November 28, 2024.
However, the senators reduced the scale of this tax, the minimum amount of which would thus increase from 2.63 to 5.30 euros for an economy class ticket to France or Europe, instead of the 9.50 euros envisaged by the government.
But towards other destinations abroad, including Algeria, the amount of the tax increase remains the same proposed by the government in its amendment.
Here are the companies that already apply the new tax on their plane tickets
If all airlines are affected by this increase, only the two French companies, Air France and Transavia, have started to apply the increase to their plane tickets sold for the period from January 1, 2025.
On Paris – Algiers flights for example, the French airline, Air France, already applies the surplus linked to the solidarity tax. In addition to the current tax amount of €4.51, the ticket also displays the amount of €10.49, linked to the tax increase.
This is also the case for Transavia which already applies an amount of 10.49 euros linked to the excess solidarity tax on plane tickets, in addition to the initial amount of the tax which is 4. €51. This is what we noticed this Thursday, November 28 on a Paris – Algiers ticket for next January.
Other companies serving routes between France and Algeria, including Air Algérie and ASL Airlines, have not yet applied the amount of the new tax on their plane tickets for the period from January .
