Airline tickets will go up. New rates from January

Airlines do not hide the fact that the increase in costs will be reflected in ticket prices. The new rates will be officially announced and approved in November, and will be valid from January 1, 2025 – the daily reports.

According to calculations by “Rzeczpospolita”, the new rates mean a large increase in expenses for Ryanair, which has the largest (33.65%) share in Polish air traffic. The expenses proposed by PAŻP – for an average flight route in Poland (300 km) – for the Irish will increase from the current PLN 210.7 million to PLN 353 million.

The newspaper reports that in the case of WizzAir, they will increase from PLN 152.1 million to PLN 254.8 million, and for LOT – from PLN 108 million to PLN 181.9 million. It will also hurt Lufthansa with an increase from PLN 26 million to PLN 43.6 million. The largest Polish charter carrier, Enter Air, will pay not PLN 27.7 million, as it did this year, but PLN 43.6 million.

“Rz” quotes the opinion of Olga Lubryczyńska-Budrewicz, an expert in air traffic management, who believes that the main reason for the current increases are the growing personnel costs at PAŻP.

Marcin Hadaj, the head of communications at PAŻP, explained in an interview with “Rz” that the higher rates are the result of, among other things, taking into account Inflation from recent years and the need to train new controllers as well as investment costs. In the period 2025–2029, PAŻP plans to spend a total of about PLN 1.4 billion on them.

“PANSA is also preparing for the return of air traffic after the end of military operations in Ukraine and the opening of airspace in the east. According to Eurocontrol simulations, if the airspace in the east opens, traffic in Polish airspace will increase significantly,” Hadaj told “Rzeczpospolita”.