Air France-KLM Includes Biofuel Tax to Plane Tickets

Tickets are getting more expensive

Air France-KLM shared Monday that it would include an additional charge of 12 euros ($13,50) to its tickets to counter the expense of using more expensive sustainable aviation fuel.

Air France claimed that the fuel fee would be added to tickets from January 10.

Passengers in coach will pay around one and four euros more while those in business will pay from 1.5 euros to 12 euros, depending on the length of their trip, it stated in a communication to its customers.

Air France’s Dutch partner KLM and low-cost subsidiary Transavia may incorporate an additional charge on flights leaving France and the Netherlands, the company announced, including replacing from 0.5 percent and one percent of the kerosene it uses with the sustainable option.

Sustainable aviation fuel or SAF is mainly produced from used cooking oil, forestry, or farming waste.

It lets airlines minimize carbon emissions by 75 percent compared to kerosene over the fuel’s lifecycle.

Jet fuel currently represents within 20 to 30 percent of airlines’ costs.

Take-up of SAF, which is between 4 and 8 times more costly, has been slow.

 Present manufacturing levels fall far below what would be needed to power the world’s aircraft fleet.

A progressively cleaner industry

In 2019, sustainable fuel represented less than 0.1 percent of the 360 billion liters of fuel utilized by the aviation sector.

Air France claimed it was certain the price of SAF would drop as more European nations begin mass producing them.

On Thursday, the airline stated it would be providing travelers the possibility to contribute to the acquisition of additional sustainable fuel.

Air France pledged that every euro contributed would go towards SAF.

Air traffic represents 2.5 and 3 percent of international carbon emissions. The sector aims to become carbon neutral by 2050, both by investing in jets that consume less kerosene and using cleaner fuel.

Under a new law that took effect in France on January 1, airline companies refueling in the nation are obligated to use a minimum of one percent of sustainable fuel in their fuel mix– a percentage set to rise to 2 percent in 2025 and 5 percent in 2030.

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