The German coalition government has announced a set of relief measures for the aviation sector, including a planned reduction in air ticket taxes.<\/p>\n
The Merz government last week announced that it will reverse the increase in the country\u2019s air passenger tax<\/a> introduced last year, with the change scheduled to take effect on 1 July 2026.<\/p>\n The previous government had raised air passenger taxes<\/a> by 20 per cent, which received criticism<\/a> from the German travel buyer association VDR and airline groups such as IATA. Low-cost carriers EasyJet and Ryanair<\/a> have recently reduced flight capacity in Germany, citing increased access costs.<\/p>\n With the reduction, air ticket taxes will decrease by between \u20ac3 and \u20ac14 per passenger, depending on the route. For long-haul flights, the tax will drop from \u20ac70.83 to \u20ac58.06 per passenger.<\/p>\n Additional measures outlined by the German government include a phased reduction in air traffic control fees by more than 10 per cent by 2029, and a decrease in costs related to security checks.<\/p>\n VDR welcomed the move, describing it as \u201ca step in the right direction for businesses, for mobility [and] for Germany as a business location\u201d.<\/p>\n The association, in a statement, added that the decision \u201ccreates urgently needed planning certainty and contributes to making business travel efficient, attractive and well-connected in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German coalition government has announced a set of relief measures for the aviation sector, including a planned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[13133,2000,299,1824,13134,13135],"class_list":{"0":"post-582329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-rss-everything-choose","13":"tag-rss2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115581592763749963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582329","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=582329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}