BERLIN (Reuters) -Airlines are withdrawing aircraft from Germany due to soaring state-imposed costs, the German Aviation Association (BDL) said on Monday, warning of significant economic fallout.<\/p>\n
The number of planes stationed in Germany has dropped from 190 in 2019 to 130 this year, resulting in an estimated loss of 10,000 jobs and 4 billion euros ($4.66 billion) in annual economic value added, BDL said.<\/p>\n
“Since 2019, state-imposed costs have more than doubled, and airlines are increasingly avoiding Germany,” said BDL President Jens Bischof, urging the government to prioritise post-pandemic recovery in the aviation sector.<\/p>\n
The industry has criticised Berlin’s decision to postpone a planned reduction in aviation tax, arguing that reversing the May 2024 hike would have signalled support for carriers.<\/p>\n
State levies, including taxes, air traffic control fees and security charges, are expected to rise by 1.1 billion to 4.4 billion euros this year, hampering recovery, said BDL.<\/p>\n
Passenger numbers rose just 3% in the first half of the year to 99.4 million, far below the 10% growth seen a year earlier.<\/p>\n
Germany ranks 28th out of 31 European countries in post-pandemic aviation recovery, with seat capacity at 87% of 2019 levels, compared with a European average of 104%.<\/p>\n
($1 = 0.8583 euros)<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach, Writing by Friederike Heine, Editing by Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -Airlines are withdrawing aircraft from Germany due to soaring state-imposed costs, the German Aviation Association (BDL)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[120108,2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-335527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bdl-president-jens-bischof","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115009762639044142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}