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BRUSSELS — Lufthansa Group airlines will include a surcharge of up to €72 per ticket starting next year to cover costs introduced by the EU Emissions Trading System and the sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) mandates, the German carrier announced Tuesday.
“The airline group will not be able to bear the successively increasing additional costs resulting from regulatory requirements in the coming years on its own,” Lufthansa said in a press release.
The surcharge goes into effect for tickets booked from June 26 and departing from European countries; it ranges between €1 and €72, depending on the distance traveled.
Lufthansa — which includes Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian and Brussels Airlines — said the surcharge will cover the costs of the ETS for aviation, the SAF mandates (due to come into effect next year) and the U.N.’s Corsia emissions reduction scheme. Also looming is the possibility of a new tax on kerosene.
Lufthansa has long complained about the extra costs imposed on European airlines by EU regulations and national taxes.
“A Lufthansa flight from Madrid with a transfer in Frankfurt to Shanghai and back will cost around €220 more in 2035,” Lufthansa Group said in a recent policy paper, comparing it to an increase of about €40 for the same trip with a non-EU airline flying via Istanbul.
