The European airline forces you to pay extra for tickets. This is how passengers react

Initially, we heard about fuel shortages mainly in Cuba. For months, there have been reports that instead of cars, you can see horse-drawn carriages on the streets and that flights are being suspended. The crisis has also been affecting Sri Lanka for a long time. Currently, after the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, fuel shortages are increasingly noticed in Europe. Tourist destinations like Italy and Spain follow a strict approach to the use of gasoline. One of the budget lines was the first to take a very radical step. He wants subsidies for tickets from tourists.

The airline responds to the fuel crisis

The Spanish Volotea has been connecting small and medium-sized European cities and offering cheap tickets for years. At the same time, he enjoys sympathy and success. Now it is the first airline in Europe to demand the so-called fuel subsidies due to the deepening crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. Interestingly, it is not about an increase in the prices of seats available for sale, but also of those that were already purchased earlier for less money.

Tourists started receiving notifications that they must pay an additional fee of 7 to 14 euros to the already purchased ticket, i.e. up to PLN 60 for one section of the route. Failure to agree to the new rules will result in the cancellation of your place on board.

The airline refers to its regulations, which state that in the event of extraordinary circumstances – a sudden increase in fuel prices is one of them – it may adjust flight prices to the new situation.

Tourists react to ticket subsidies

Additional fees will cover selected connections from March 16, and whether they will apply to all routes will depend on further developments in the situation. Tourists are warned about the obligation to pay extra no later than 7 days before departure and can agree at any time, change the departure date or cancel the reservation free of charge.

Data provided by the carrier Volotea show that despite the problems, as many as 97 percent of the customers given a choice decided to pay extra and continue their journey.

Other airlines in Europe have their own ways of responding to the crisis. For example, LOT Polish Airlines is adapting its flight network to the new situation. The information provided by the spokesman on April 8 shows, among others: that the line uses the so-called refueling, i.e. filling up the tank at the base airport so as not to risk not being able to refuel at the destination airport.