Cover reporter, yang jin-joo, intern, jin sun-mi
In recent days, the price of china's route to europe has continued to rise. On 3 march, journalists consulted various travel platforms and found that direct flights from shanghai, beijing and chengdu to hot european cities such as paris, london and frankfurt were generally expensive and that individual hot-gate dates had shown a tight balance。
In the case of shanghai, which flew directly to paris on 4 march, economy class prices had risen to $25934 and business class had even reached $70,586. The economy class fare on that day was also more than $18,000, which was significantly higher than before。
On 4 march, direct flights from shanghai to paris cost nearly $26,000。
Mr. Chen, who visited his daughter in europe after the plan, told reporters that he could still see a number of economy class options for direct flights to paris in shanghai a few days ago at relatively reasonable prices. However, when he opened the page again, the direct economy module was fully sold, leaving the option of double-priced business class or longer flight。
Mr. Chen had no choice but to say: “the plan was to be slowly contrasted and the result was to hesitate and the choice was gone. It's either to fly at a high price, or to double the turn-off.” he also indicated that he had begun to focus on non-hot flights and to consider alternative routes from beijing to address the tense reality of direct flights。
On social platforms, a number of internet users tanning tickets, some saying that “the previous week was hesitant, and the week had just doubled”, and others saying that “every refreshment was a new price”. Passengers frequently travelling on international flights believe that international air tickets themselves follow a dynamic pricing mechanism and that prices are adjusted in real time as seating conditions and stocks change. When the remaining slots are reduced, the system price may rise rapidly。
There was also a marked rise in the price of transit flights。
Many consumers have indicated that the current overall tightness of direct flights has forced many passengers to adjust their itinerary or shift to higher accommodations, increasing travel costs。
According to the airline industry, several international aviation divisions in the middle east have recently suspended some of their flights, and some have cancelled their flights to the middle east and contracted through the middle east to europe. The middle east hub, which had been responsible for a significant proportion of central european transit traffic, had been able to divert many passengers only to direct flight routes once the capacity had decreased. Direct flight capacity is difficult to rapidly increase in the short term, demand is concentrated and prices are naturally pushed up。
There is a reminder from industry that travelers who have recently come to the eu programme can lock their journeys in advance, or focus on unhot departure times and cities to reduce travel costs。
