In December, prices increased by 3.4%, all foreign destinations combined according to the MisterFly Barometer for The Tourist Echo. This is significantly more than in November.
Rising prices: long-haul is stabilizing
Prices are soaring more on domestic French flights (+4.9%) and even more on medium-haul flights (+7.9%). Inflation particularly affects Italy (+7%), the United Kingdom (+10%) and Greece (+22%). Conversely, long-haul is stabilizing (+1.4%), even if this average hides large differences.
As shown in the table below, companies positioned in the French Antilles are trying to attract customers with significantly more attractive prices. Guadeloupe (-15%, or -134 euros) like Martinique (-18%, or -162 euros), shaken at the end of 2024 by significant social tensions. Prices thus fall below the 800 euro mark. “We see very clearly that Guadeloupe and Martinique are in recovery situations with prices falling sharply,” comments Frédéric Pilloud, digital director of MisterFly.
Destinations: Greece loses ground, Egypt rises
In terms of destinations, Egypt continues to climb the slope and gains five places compared to December 2024. Its low price policy (-5%) thus seems to be bearing fruit. Guadeloupe, for its part, grabs three places over one year, again stimulated by the reductions made by the airlines. Asia is also gaining ground (Vietnam + 4 places, Japan + 3 places).
Other destinations are less festive. The island of Malta, where prices are soaring by 20%, appears to be losing momentum in December 2024 (-5 places, demoted to 29th place). Also landing are the United Arab Emirates (-4 places), Mexico (-3), Canada (-2), which has been in difficulty for several months. Greece, for its part, has lost two ranks; the strong inflation in plane ticket prices (+22%) is undoubtedly deterring many French people.
In total, the air ticketing specialist MisterFly of the Digitrips group analyzed 96,577 tickets reserved in economy class in May 2024.
Towards a “moderate” price change in 2025
Misterfly also analyzed price developments over the past year as a whole. In 2024, prices increased by only 1.4% compared to 2023 (+6.7% on domestic French flights, +2.4% on medium-haul flights, stable on long-haul flights). But this soft landing follows muscular inflation: +32.2% compared to 2019!
“Price developments in 2025 should be moderate in a complex economic climate,” estimates Frédéric Pilloud. “The big unknown will lie as usual in the evolution of the price of oil which for the moment is rather on a low scale for 6 months. » The other big unknown concerns the plan to increase the tax on plane tickets. The government seems determined to put it back on the table to make up a small part of France’s abysmal deficit.
