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Ryanair continues to sell flights at bus price and still earns a lot of money. Your business starts after check-in

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An any of April. Madrid-Milán for 15 euros. The passenger clicks “accept” without thinking. At five clicks – 10 kilos pole, seat selection, priority boarding -, The amount already exceeds 60. Uugh. Ryanair is enough that arithmetic as simple as relentless to show off record benefits while their rivals scratch cents or directly lose money. Where is the magic? Why does its cost structure seem unbeatable? Accounts against intuition Ryanair’s last fiscal year closed with a benefit of almost 2,000 million and a solid growth over 2023: 1,920 million euros of net profit. Year -on -year growth of 34%. 13,440 million euros in income. 183.7 million transported passengers. Average occupation of 94% in its airplanes. All according to Your annual report of 2024. By 2025 it plans to go further, and it is already on the way to exceed 200 million travelers. In a sector where even Lufthansa (4%) or Air France-KLM (2%) barely reach margins of a digit, Ryanair moves comfortably in the environment of 14-15%net profitability, according to Capa analysis. Let’s see why. It does not give benefits to fly, but for everything else Ryanair has been refining a mantra for years: disaggregate the trip to the last screw and collect for everything that happens before, during and after the seat of the plane. There are several concepts there, but first of all, one stands out: that of the Auxiliary incomewhich reached 4.3 billion euros in 2024, one third of the billing, and 23.4 euros per passenger, according to their results report. What are they? Luggage. From the cabin suitcase to billing. From 12 or 13 euros to 75 euros according to the season. Seat and priority. Choose place, travel with the family or the group in contiguous seats or embark first, part of 3 or 4 euros and can reach 35 euros. Sales on board. From snacks and drinks to raffles or Duty-Free. Third Party Commissions. Hotels, rental cars, insurance … Everything is inserted in the purchase flow to capture margin without even their own inventory. Subscriptions and gift cards. As choice fidelity programs. We could put in the equation even to institutional advertising. A reef. Cantabria is paying 18 million euros in four years for Ryanair to “promote” the brand on its website and maintain routes, he revealed eldiario.es. This proposal touches the Freemium And in fact nine years ago The CEO said That “within five to ten years, prices will be free, in that case the flights will be full”, referring to the possibility of monetizing both the aforementioned roads, and with the distribution of airport income. It is not something that has happened or seems that it will happen, at least within the period. The cost that fits in a backpack Ryanair presumes that Fly costs 34 euros per passengernot counting the fuel. The figure comes from an internal slide projected in Milan and exhibited by The Flight Club. If we crumble it … Staff: 8 euros. It lowers it with multipurpose crews and flexible contracts. Airport and Handling: 8 euros. It resorts to local subsidies, bases in secondary (cheaper) airports and the payment of minimum rates Property and maintenance. 8 euros. Its homogeneous fleet of Boeing 737 that lowers with mass orders that derive in large discounts. Routes and navigation. 6 euros. It resorts to point flights, without connections that make the final price more expensive. Others. 4 euros. Little for a minimal business structure and the use of free or low cost viral marketing. To compare: Easyjet, your rival Low Costhas a cost of more than double, 79 euros per person. Wizz Air leaves it at 52 euros. Always without counting the fuel. The traditional ones, such as Lufthansa, can go above 160 euros. That is what we add the increasing number of people who fly with Ryanair. There are four key levers that are worth highlighting: Unique and dense fleet. Those mentioned 737 (has more than half a thousand of thema good part of those of 197 places) consume 16% less fuel per seat and add 4% capacity. Simple mathematics. Express rotation. Since an airplane touches wheels until it takes again as soon as half an hour passes. That allows each plane to fly more hours and distribute amortization on more flights and more seats. Digital approach. He Check-in face -to -face costs 55 euros. A deterrence for most, a tariff for the accommodation in the analog. The result is that 99% do it online and Ryanair barely needs counter. AND wants to go further. Low profile airports. Stansted instead of Heathrow, Beauvais instead of Charles de Gaulle. Rates can be up to 80% cheaper and times direct and indirect public aid in order to preserve routes can compensate. The undercover subsidies, by the way, are overcoming borders and Morocco is following that wake. Spain, perfect laboratory The relationship of Spain with Ryanair is unique. This airline It controls almost 20% of flights that land or take off in Spain. The following in the ranking, at a certain distance, are also Low Cost. Besides, Spain is Ryanair’s second marketonly behind Italy and above the United Kingdom, with 2,416 million euros in revenue last year. However, the Fine of 179 million euros to airlines Low Cost imposed by the Ministry of Consumer in November also Ryanair splashed fully, who was charged 108 of those millionsreceivable hand luggage. O’Leary, the CEO, in its unbridled line, He called “Crazy Communist” Minister Pablo Bustinduy at a press conference threatened to cut routes in protest of what he considered an “illegal” fine. These types of orders are not isolated, but a usual play: it is enough to pronounce that threat to, very often, get the authorities to give up, although sometimes it does not happen and in fact Spain is getting tired of them. Is what has happened for example In Valladolid and Jerez this year. Some airports depend on their traffic in 60%, Ryanair knows it and plays with it in his favor to … Read more

Ryanair tense the rope more and threatens the government with removing more regional airport flights

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This summer, Ryanair will offer 800,000 places less in Spanish airports. It is the announcement that the company made last January as a counterweight measure to what it considers abusive Aena. Now, the company threatens the government again with withdrawing journeys from its less busy lines. 800,000 seats. They announced him last January and the plan is already being carried out. Ryanair will offer 800,000 seats less this summer with the elimination of routes within Spain or the reduction of some of the existing ones. In its statement, the company indicated that the reason for this reduction in the offered journeys were “the excessive rates and the lack of effectiveness of the ‘incentive plans’ of the AENA monopolistic airport operator, which are completely ineffective to support the growth policy of the growth of regional airports.” The affected airports. In its statement, Ryanair specified which airports are those that would suffer a reduction in the offered routes and in which would completely close their operations: Jerez: Closing Valladolid: Closing Vigo: 61% less journeys Santiago 28% less journeys Zaragoza: 20% less journeys Asturias: 11% less journeys Santander: 5% less journeys Where it hurts: Ryanair knows the force it has In these airports and, therefore, it has been their pressure measure against the rates that Aena charges in them. In Valladolid, for example, the number of trips has been drastically reduced and the company’s departure is dismissal. Valladolid is just an example of the fall in international operations caused by Ryanair’s departure. In Santander, for example, his departure causes that only the Canary Islands, Madrid and Barcelona can fly. International trips will be injured in death. Jerez aspired to recover the number of travelers before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2025 but Ryanair’s march It should prevent this from happening. What is paid. Ryanair is aware of the fragility of these routes. Their volume is low, so, they say, they prefer to reorganize these planes and send them to routes that have been growing. In fact, if the company had been operating in these places, it is because there were many facilities by Aena (which Ryanair does not consider enough) and for the interest of regional governments. Airlines charged rates have a cost of 10.35 euros per passenger and are used to guarantee basic services such as cleaning or safety at airports. From Aena they insist that They are “of the lowest in Europe”although in 2021 a freezing was announced until 2026 but in 2024 they rose 4.9%. At the end of last year, CNMC frozen prices again by 2025. Yes, but bonus. However, in airports with less passenger volume, Aena’s fees have multiple bonuses in order to attract a greater number of airlines, to the point that the company can pay only two euros per passenger, according to the AENA last proposal. But, in addition, there is another reason why companies maintain flights in these airports: undercover subsidies. In eldiario.es They explain how regional governments deliver under advertising contracts. So, The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros Ryanair last summer and Vigo disbursed 625,000 euros to guarantee the Vigo-London route For three years. “Terminal Decadence”. With these words, Eddie Wilson, CEO of the company, has described, which in his opinion is getting the government with regional airports. Words have expressed them in an interview to electionomista.es and in it he has threatened to get more flights from Spain if the course of policies in relation to rates is not changed. “There will be more cuts in the winter of 2025, and even more in the summer of 2026, because it makes no sense to continue investing in deficit operations. The rational decision is to move the traffic where the access costs are falling, not increasing, so we will continue to do so little by little. We have no plans to invest in regional airports because its price structure is broken,” says Wilson in his interview. Without specifying what these cuts would be, Wilson points out that “regional airports are underutilized by 70%, so something does not work. Or people do not want to go to the regions, or airlines do not want to put airplanes there.” More tensions. From Aena, he collects the digital medium, ignores Ryanair’s threats and emphasize that “when Ryanair recovers their presence, we will be institutionally receiving them with open arms”, in the words of its President Maurici Lucena. And emphasize that current policies “allow deficit airports to remain open in optimal conditions without appealing Spanish taxpayers.” At the same time, from Vigo they have sanctioned the company with 17,414 euros of fine for unilaterally reducing the flights scheduled last summer. The company has resorted to but Vigo’s City Council has rejected its writing. In addition, Vigo understands that he has breached the aforementioned contract of advertising when considering that the company has unilaterally broken it, so a sanctioning file for this reason is also underway. And it is not the last controversy that the company has starred in recent weeks. Although the decision aimed to apply this summer, Ryanair has announced that next winter will apply a zero paper policy with which he aspires to bind passengers To use only digital shipping cards and use your mobile phone. Photo | Nejc Soklič In Xataka | Spain has tired of Ryanair’s practices. And the airline is going to hit where it hurts the most: the provinces airports

Five five flights full of iPhone from India

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At the end of 2019 Apple made a decision regarding the manufacture of the Mac Pro: it would stay in Texas To dodge the commercial war with China. Five and a half years later Apple – like the rest of the world – meets the dilemma of what to do before a global commercial war. In Cupertino in fact they have already taken some surprise measures. IPhone full aircraft. As they point out In The Times of IndiaApple wanted to advance to the application of these tariffs. At the end of March he fought five commercial airplanes in India and filled them with iPhone to send them to the United States. Everything to avoid those new reciprocal tariffs taxes by Donald Trump and that were activated on April 5. Inventory to fall (a little) the storm. The measure allows Apple to have its iPhone inventory full in its United States stores. In this way they can protect Apple from the impact of tariffs for at least a time. Sources close to the company indicated that Apple has also transferred part of its China inventory to the United States, and that despite the fact that this is a period in which sales slow down in the United States. Or they decelerated, in the past. Buy, foolish. The threat of price increases on iPhone has caused some urgency among Apple products buyers. As they reveal In BloombergDuring the last weekend Apple’s physical stores lived a flood of purchases. According to the employees of the firm, the influx of visitors and the rhythm sale was more typical of intense Christmas days than of a “quiet” weekend of early April. Diversify at all. The company led by Tim Cook has been diversifying its manufacturing strategy to avoid excessive dependence on China. It has moved part of its production to countries like Vienam or India, but those plans now They have been torpedoated For Trump’s tariffs, which especially affect To the countries of the Asian region. Importing from India is bad, but doing so from China is much worse. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are 26% for India, but they are (for the moment) of 54% for China. Put to choose from where to import the iPhone that are manufactured outside the US, it is much cheaper to do it from India, and the country thus becomes the “less bad” solution to mitigate the impact of tariffs. At the moment there are no price increases. It is soon to know how Apple will react to tariffs, but most likely she, like all, Have to raise prices. Chopping those planes full of iPhone gives some margin of maneuver and time because raising prices is probably a measure that they make at the same time globally. If they can delay something the measure in the US, that is theoretically good news for potential buyers in the rest of the world. Image | Patrick Campanale In Xataka | Nike is caught in a perfect storm: the new US tariffs are his last lunge

We have been discussing whether it is a good idea or not bassinally during long flights. Crews are clear

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May not reach the level of the debate of whether the tortilla It must or should not carry onionbut when we talk about airplanes there are A dilemma that arises in virtually long flights: barefoot or not barefoot? Is it justified to take off your shoes to make a transoceanic flight of more than eight hours more? Is it uncivic? Is it unsafe? To start, do companies allow it? The debate jumps From time to time In networks. And surprising analysis and Surveys That is good to keep present. Travel and shoes. If you take the train or plane frequently, especially for long journeys, you will have seen it A few times (You may even do it yourself): There are passengers who, according to the trip, take off the shoes to be more comfortable. There are those that stay in socks. And others that directly leave their naked foot. It is a relatively common stamp. Just as it is to see how other passengers from the car or plane begin to look at those feet with anger. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A figure: 56%. It may seem a minor issue, but the flights (and train trips) with or without shoes is relevant enough for companies that have dedicated themselves to studying the topic thoroughly. An example is the Kayak platform, which in 2023 published A report with “the tacit rules” of air trips in which he collected the opinions of passengers on issues such as the use of support and players or telephone calls One of the issues he asked in his survey was the footwear in the planes. Are you okay if the flight is long? He obtained two answers, to each more striking. The first is that at least among the Americans there is no A clear opinion on whether it is correct or not take off your shoes on the plane. 56% believe that passengers must remain shoes, but as Slide Kayak itself That supposes that there is another 44% that differs from that opinion. Moreover, according to their data one in five people believe that it is fine to go to cleaning without shoes. Socks, the red line. In what is much more unanimity is that, although a traveler removes the shoes, heels or shoes, what he should never do is get the socks. 76% Of the surveyed by kayak it does not see that people dare of that garment in the airplanes. The percentage exceeds even those who consider that phone calls should not be made inside the plane or that to listen to music or watch movies you have to wear headphones. “It is unpleasant”. In other countries opinions are much more categorical. A while ago Jetstar made a similar survey Among more than 20,000 travelers and found that the majority “unworthy” that there are people who walk barefoot through the airport. The idea only convinces 6% of Australians and 9% of the Japanese. “An airport or plane is not a private living room,” says Zarife Hardy, responsible for the Australian School of label. “Remove your shoes in crowded spaces is coach for others.” In your opinion, you can get your shoes acceptable if we talk about long journeys, during which the traveler spends hours and hours in her seat, but Zariffe remembers That does not mean that I should be with the naked foot. “Wait for the plane to be flying and wear socks or slippers,” he advises. Education question … and personal hygiene. There is another reason why we should think twice if we should get our shoes on a plane. We may win comfort, but in the long run you can carry more serious problems. Especially if we are still barefoot when we want to go to cleaning. “On long -term flights I have realized that people (often children) walk barefoot towards or inside the bathroom,” Explain Jagdish Khubchandani, Professor of Public Health at New Mexico State University. “It is a very antihigienic trend with infection potential if someone has cuts or wounds.” “Sometimes it’s not water”. In case there were doubts about it, Leysha Pérez, regional flight assistant, even went further in An interview with Business Insider in which I explained why moving barefoot through a plane may not be the best idea in the world: “Sometimes what you see on the bathroom floor is not water. Surely body fluids are what you step on.” There are airline crew that directly They confess That “they would never” go barefoot to a bathroom, however long the flight is. “Walking on the barefoot or socks is disgusting,” They underline. And what do companies say? There are cases where traveling barefoot is not even an option. The reason: the airlines themselves prohibit it in their use policies. For example, American Airlines establishes Clearly that all its clients must dress in “appropriate” aboard their ships, and if there were doubts about it adds: “No bare feet or offensive garments are allowed.” Something similar occurs with Hawaiian Airlines, which remember that your staff can refuse to transport a client if you do not meet “the Hawaiian standards of clothing.” And that, clarifies, implies wearing “safety” shoes. Images | Kenny Eliason (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

1,300 flights affected by the closure of the largest airport in Europe

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“A fire in an electrical substation that supplies the airport.” It is the reason, as reported by the heatow airport authorities themselves On its website and in the official accounts of social networks as x. From the airport they recommend not to go to their facilities and get in touch with the airlines if you wanted to take a flight today to find a solution to it. Heidi Alexander, Minister of Transportation, has also asked travelers who do not go to the facilities: “I am receiving updates about the situation in development at Heathrow Airport. I am grateful for emergency services that are responding to the fire, and National Grid for working to restore energy from the airport and households. He urges passengers who do not travel to the airport and contact their airline” The airport is the largest in Europe. The last 2024 closed the year with a traveler record. In total it is estimated that they went through its facilities 83.9 million people. A figure far higher than that registered in 2019, the best year until then with 80.9 million travelers. According to BBCit is estimated that 1,351 flights can be canceled throughout the day. The consequences will be extended inside and outside our continent and has a special impact on our country. New York, Dubai, Doha and Los Angeles are the main journeys at the London airport. Dublin sneaks like the fourth city that has the most transfer with Heatrow and the sixth city and the second European is Madrid. From AENA They have already reported that 54 flights with origin or destination within our country will be affected today. Journeys that are distributed throughout the following cities: Madrid: 29 flights Barcelona: 19 flights Malaga: 2 flights South Tenerife: 2 flights Valencia: 2 flights The fire that affects the airport has had no implications exclusively in its facilities. According to BBC16,300 homes have also run out of electricity and 150 people have had to be evacuated. At the moment, the cuasas of the fire are unknown. All connections affected by the Heatrow Fire. Source: Flightradar24 A logistics challenge Sean Dilley, a journalist specialized in transport of the British media, points out that the fire has created a logistics challenge that will be extended throughout the world. Air traffic is calculated to the millimeter to always keep in mind how many flights are in the air and the capacity on land. Close the largest airport in Europe It forces the network to assume that challenge. He explains that Gatwick (also in London) will absorb the greatest amount of flights that can but that its capacity is almost at the limit. The same goes for Stansted and Luton. At the moment, in The Guardian They report that Stansted has not received requests to accept flights to Heatrow. A spokesman for it has indicated that: “London Stansted is currently operating normally, we have the capacity for a small number of deviations, but so far we have not received any request.” Another option that is being valued, according to Dilley, is to divert flights to Manchester and relocate passengers by train. And to distribute long -distance flights on the network, make them terrric in Schipol (Amsterdam) or Frankfurt that are also among the largest airports on the continent. In The Guardian They also focus on the problem of Fuel supply which can be generated in airports that accept the detour of some of the trips with original destination in Heatow. And to current delays and cancellations, we must add those that can be generated in the next few days until all flights have been made. Although the airport opened normally tomorrow, Saturday, March 22, the delays are expected to accumulate. Photo | Heatow Airport In Xataka | The failure that has demonstrated the fragility of airports around the world: Crowdstrike and a dramatic day in the middle of summer

Segovia promised them happy as a tourist destination for balloon flights. Until he ran into the farmers

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The most famous are those of Capadociabut Spain is also an interesting destination for lovers of hot air balloon walks. They offer them in Andalusia, Majorca, Galicia wave Valencian Communityamong other regions, although there is a province in which they have become popular is In Segovia. There they even celebrated in September A festival that brought together about twenty of pilots The walks with a view to the aqueduct and the Alcazar have found themselves with a problem: the discomfort of the farmers. And that has generated a curious pulse. Globe walks through Segovia? Yes. Segovia is a province rich in landscapes and heritage, so … why not enjoy them in bird’s view, from the air, aboard a hot air balloon? A Fast search shows that there are different options to live the experience and from the Segovia balloons festival They claim In fact, it is “one of the best destinations in the world” for activity. “That is why about 13,000 travelers choose our city every year to enjoy this experience,” they say. Is there more data? Yes. A year ago The North of Castile investigated What supposes and how much money moves aerostatic tourism in Segovia. And their results are surprising. Apart from presenting the region as “one of the ten most demanded destinations in the world” for this type of walks, the newspaper ensures that only in 2023 1,334 flights were recorded with 14,568 travelers. At an average of 190 euros per session, that translates into about 2.6 million euros. It is estimated that there is almost a dozen of companies offering their services. Why are they news? For A few weeks Segovia’s hot air balloons are monopolizing headlines in the press regional and state And curiously it is not for its success among tourists, or their turnover, or The festival planned for this summer. No. The reason is another: The fight Among the companies and professionals of the sector and another of the key guilds for the Segovian province, the farmer. As the former gained popularity, the latter claim to have encountered a problem: low -rise flights cause them “Grave damages” In the field. Why’s that? The collective denounces that when flying near the balloons they bother the cattle and it is not strange that the pilots end up posing in their plots. “They cause stamps and stress in animals. They also land without permission in private farms, fences and occupied by cows and calves, as well as in sown lands,” He denounced A few days ago Union of Peasants of Segovia-UCCL after transferring his complaints to the subdelegation of the Government. “The balloons make low -term flights through the grass areas, operating the burner when they estimate convenient. The noise caused by this device causes serious stress to the animals, giving rise to stampeds,” The entity insists. “The scared animals jump fences, wired and break into the races with obvious risks to safety and unease for the farmer. In case they were not enough, they land unpunishedly in private farms.” Are they the only ones who complain? No. The Health Defense Group (ADS) Sierra de Segovia, which brings together just over a hundred extended cattlemen of the surroundings of the Sierra de Guadarrama and the Capital Segoviana, He complained recently to North Seville of the “legal vacuum” that entrepreneurs use to land on the plots. “They would have to be much clearer things,” Add your spokesman: “It is sinvivir, this cannot be a safari, you cannot fly over the cows to enjoy passengers.” What do businessmen say? For them the situation is quite different. In An interview with The Spanish newspaper Cristian Biosca, manager of one of the companies in the sector, acknowledged “not understanding” the controversy. “There is no novelty”, argues. The only incident that consists, says, happened “a few months ago” and Biosca clarifies that it had “nothing to do” with the companies that usually operate in Segovia. Moreover, the manager argues that the complaints that receive only three “particularly problematic” farmers. “We have tried to reach agreements with them, to come to fly and see it, but nothing.” “His complaint is that we fly low and frightened cattle, but ever none of those who fly have seen that the cattle run when we pass or break fences,” guarantees bioscawho points out that the cows have already become accustomed to the balloons. “Like the right over,” he concludes. Proof that his activity is “safe” and there is no evidence of the damages denouncing the farmers is that, he states, the complaints that have been filed to date have not prospered. What is the solution? Segovia-UCL peasants union It is clear: That the flights of the balloons stop “interfering” with the cattle breeding areas. It wouldn’t even be a new exit. The group recalls that years ago, in 2018, operators and livestock already agreed thanks to the mediation of the government’s subdelegation a “flight exclusion zone” that affected certain municipalities characterized precisely by the presence of pastures. That agreement worked for a while, but UCCL denounces that the companies that manage the balloons “are returning to Campar to their width through the grass areas.” “We understand that the tourist travel activity in globe is perfectly feasible in Segovia without invading cattle breeding spaces,” insists The collective: “It is enough to resume the pact reached in its day.” And that is feasible? UCCL Defend that yes And in fact he recognizes that for several years the agreement signed in 2018 was fulfilled “to a large extent.” “It is perfectly possible, since there is more than enough airspace so that both activities can be developed without mutual interference,” concludes. Biosca remember Also that in 2018 there were areas through which the pilots “try” not to pass, but clarifies: “The balloons cannot be directed (…) is not a matter of whim where we land, the wind takes us.” Images | Victor Iniesta (Flickr) and Segovia-UCL peasants union In Xataka | A town in León wanted to force … Read more

France receives more tourists than anyone. Now he has had an idea to limit it: put the very expensive flights

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Although there is already who says that Spain will end up snatching the crown, France is today the undisputed queen of world tourism. No other nation moves more travelers. Only last year it was expected to arrive in the country some 89.4 million of international tourists, a good handful more than Spain, the US or China. From now on, travelers who must take off from France to move around the country or return to their homes will have to scratch some more pocket. The reason: shortly It will go up he “Solidarity Tax” That applies to your flights. Of course, the decision It has generated a stir. What happened? That in a matter of a few weeks (March 1) France will update its Solidarity tax On the plane tickets, better known as TSBA or ‘Chirac tax’ in a wink to the former president who ruled the Republic when it was approved. His climb is not really a surprise. It was expected in The French budget of 2025, approved in February after a complex process that He took ahead to Prime Minister Michel Barnier; But its application will not be really effective until next month. What exactly is the TSBA? An international tax that taxes the price of plane tickets. Their amount is set by authorities. Then it is up to the airlines to decide whether they assume it or transfer it to a greater or lesser extent to the tickets that charge their passengers. As your own name (TSBA) details, the objective is finance International aid programs. In fact, the French government defends its equitable and ecological value. When at the beginning of the year, during An interview with Le Parisienthe Public Accounts Minister Amélie de Montchalin was asked what he thought of the increase in the tax, Your answer It could not be clearer: “I am in favor. It is a measure of fiscal and ecological justice. The richest 20% of the population is responsible for more than half of the air trip spending.” How much and where will it go up? To clear doubts, the French administration published a few weeks ago A brief ad with the main novelties that affect the tax. It speaks of three categories: “destinations in France and Europe”, “intermediate destinations” and “distant destinations”, which would be those in which the plane travels more than more than 5,500 kilometers. Then details the amount that the rate will have in each case, although the amount varies depending on another parameter: the category. The same is not charged to a customer who travels with a tourist ticket than to another class Business or that flies in a private jet. And how are they then? The result is that the rate for flights in economic and short -distance class, within France or Europe and with departure from France, will cost 2.63 to 7.4 euros. In intermediate journeys it will rise to 15 euros and in the case of distant destinations the tax will be located in 40. The routes to Corsica and overseas territories are left out. In class Business The rate will cost 30, 80 or 120 eurosdepending on the duration of the flight, and in the case of the Jets the TSBA will involve from March between 210 and 2,100 euros, the maximum that would pay a user of a private plane for a trip of more than 5,500 km. The Government recalls in any case that the impact of new rates on airline tickets will depend on whether they decide or not to “absorb them.” What do airlines say? They have not taken to show their discomfort. At least part of them. Air France considers that the climb, more than double, is “irresponsible” and is equivalent to demanding “a tax to access France.” In his specific case he estimates that he will cost him about 100 million euros at a particularly delicate time after the pandemic years. “France is the country of Europe where air transport is more taxed with taxes. In the last 20 years we have lost between 1 and 2% of the market every year in favor of foreign airlines. There is a risk of transferring benefits to other countries,” ditch. The update of the TSBA arrives in fact after the country has made clear Your desire to encourage taxes, the use of less polluting alternatives to the plane in short journeys. Can you take its toll? The reaction has not been good in Ryanar. Its executive director, Michael O’Leary, already He has accused To France to swim to “countercurrent” and warns: “Europe will not be more efficient or competitive excessively taxing air rates.” “France is already a country with high taxes and if they increase more likely we will reduce our capacity,” says the manager of the Low Cost. From the company go further and point out the risk that flights end up being only available to “the rich”, affecting the country’s finances at a time that stands out precisely by the Tourism boom international. Images | Eric Salard (Flickr) 1 and 2 and Service-Public.fr In Xataka | Private Jets flights are a great source of pollution. And France wants to limit them

There is already an official plan for the next Starship flights. It’s incredibly ambitious, even for Spacex

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While finalizing the eighth flight of Starship, Spacex has also closing the details of the ninth launch, which could happen shortly after with some of the most ambitious objectives so far. Eighth flight before expected. Elon Musk has confirmed that Starship Flight 8 is scheduled for this FridayFebruary 28. He has not made any mention, as usual, that the final date of the launch is subject to the regulatory approval of the government. If Spacex is confident that Starship will take off on Friday is because he hopes to receive the flight license reviewed by then. It is earlier than expected, taking into account that the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has a Open research on flight 7in which the Starship ship exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, disintegrating near the Turkish and Caicos Islands and causing a small aerial chaos For the rain of metals that followed. First load deployment. In any case, flight 8 will repeat the objectives of the previous launch, using the Super Heavy Booster 15 and the ship 34 ship for the test, the second that incorporates the Block 2 improvement block. Two meters higher, the Starship Block 2 It has a greater capacity to store propelants and better performance perspectives in the atmospheric reentry, both for the design changes of its front spoilers and for the numerous improvements of its thermal shield. In addition to re -expending an engine in the exorbitant space, flight 8 will display load for the first time using the “fish dispenser” mechanism of Starship’s upper bay. These are 10 wooden models that simulate being next -generation Starlink satellites, larger than the Starlink V2 Mini than today the Falcon 9 rocket is able to launch in lots of 23. A ninth flight even more difficult. Although great news is not expected for flight 8 because Spacex still has to demonstrate the objectives that could not be met on flight 7 for the explosion of the ship, the next, the ninth, will mark a significant leap in the program. A Special permit application Sent by Spacex to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that manages the United States radio spectrum, revealed two important things about the company’s plans: Starship flight 9 will occur between March 14 and June 30, 2025, as soon as two weeks after flight 8 Spacex not only hopes to capture the Super Heavy propeller with the arms of the launch tower, as he did on flight 5 and flight 7, he also wants to do the same with the Starship ship for the first time Double capture or double dip. Although there are not many details about the ninth flight, beyond the communications application for the double landing, Spacex has confirmed that he will use the same procedure he uses with the propeller: If everything goes well, he will try to land in the arms of the tower; But if something does not fit, it will cancel the landing and let the rocket fall into the ocean. Therefore, during flight 9 we could see, at best, the first double capture (Super Heavy and Starship ship returning, each in their time, to the launch tower) or, in the worst of the Cases, a double ameter with dip and self -control. It will undoubtedly be the riskiest flight to date: the first one in which the starship will reach orbital speed to return to the launch platform to the southeast of Texas, and the first in which the ship, which suffers much higher temperatures than The propeller on his return could test the capture maneuver with the tower arm as a landing method. The most surprising thing about everything? Which could happen in mid -March. Image | The Super Heavy Booster 14 and the Starship 33 In Xataka | “Souls on board, 283”: an Iberia plane had to declare emergency to land after the starship explosion

The airlines that most canceled flights over 2024, exhibited in this graphic

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You reserve a flight, you make plans and, suddenly, you receive the worst Notification on mobile: Your flight has been canceled. It is not as common as delays or endless queuesbut when it happens, it can ruin a trip in a moment. For aeronautics, 2024 was a complex year due to errors such as Crowdstrike that demonstrated the Fragility of airports around the worldbut also to adverse weather situations and even geopolitical incidents. And in this graphic of Visual Capitalist The 15 airlines with more cancellations are exhibited during 2024: The data. Canceling a flight is not easy, so it is something that companies do not do not be totally necessary. They have to deal with the expenses of the passage (such as claims), but also with the expenses in airports for occupying the terminal, among others. There must be a reason for weight as a climatological issue, concern for security or some technical problem in the ship that pushes the company to make that decision. They can also be administrative errors such as schedules, maintenance delays or lack of personnel. Very located. As can be seen, most airlines are headquarters and operate mainly in the regions of Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. On the list only two European and one American sneak. In addition, although Chinese companies are not those that lead the list, the number of travelers who move and the flight cancellation rate is quite significant. Perspective. Now, the graph must be accompanied by a table in which it clarifies what is the cancellation rate. In it, the total flights of each company and cancellations are exposed to obtain a percentage. First of all, here we leave the table: company Region country Flights cancellation rate Dana Air Middle East and Africa Nigeria 2,396 33.9% Lion Air Asia-Pacific Indonesia 125,550 16.7% Wings Air Asia-Pacific Indonesia 62,176 16.3% Air Austral Middle East and Africa France 7,628 14.9% Chongquing Airlines Asia-Pacific China 57,868 14.8% OPE AIR JET Asia-Pacific Indonesia 89,453 14.7% Air Seychelles Middle East and Africa Seychelles 16,069 10.1% Batik Air Asia-Pacific Indonesia 97,320 9.4% Winair Latin America Netherlands 25,802 6.3% Cape Air North America USA 83,101 6.1% Kenya Airways Middle East and Africa Kenya 46,578 4.9% Ural Airlines Europe Russia 61.021 4.8% Shenzhen Airlines Asia-Pacific China 277,688 4.6% China Air Asia-Pacific China 612.920 4.1% It is what allows to see more clearly the impact of the 813 canceled flights of Dana Air compared to the 2,396 total flights in front of those of a giant as an Chinese Air that “only” canceled 25,359 flights of a total of 612,920. It is still a burial, but it is not such a significant percentage of the total. Specific challenges. Now, what are these cancellations, especially some as striking as those of Dana Air? Two factors come into play here: the specific challenges and those that are common. In the case of the African company, the thing comes from afar. In July 2022, its air transport license was paralyzed by regulators due to financial problems and security concerns. They returned to operations a few months later, but in February 2023, the six aircraft of their fleet were held on land due to problems with maintenance. And, in 2024, a incident On the Lagos track he raised concerns about the security measures of the airline, reasuring the suspension of his licenses. In the case of the Russian Ural Airlines, the cancellations are due to the fact that it was that year in which the European Union He added to the list of sanctions due to the war between Russia and Ukraine. And others more common. Apart from the unforeseen events, sanctions and negligence on the part of the companies, we see that small airlines have many problems to maintain their travel calendar. The funny thing is that there is a simple and understandable explanation for travelers: those that cover Indonesia, for example, must deal with the challenge of operating in archipelagos with more than 17,000 islands in which extreme climatic conditions are frequent. In the case of the Cape Air (American) and Winair (Dutch), the explanation is also logical: they fly to complex areas of the Caribbean. Winair’s case is logical because it has a fleet of only eight planes and flies, above all, between destinations of the Sotavento Islands of the Minors, home of one of the most dangerous airports in the world, the Juliana Princess. By zones. Beyond the cancellations of the airlines that track from Ciriumthe data of the difference between territories with China at the head is interesting, more than one point of difference from the second, which is Latin America: Region Total flights canceled rate Asia-Pacific 12,489,263 315,317 2.52% Latin America 2,898,438 42,407 1.46% North America 9,925,300 135,744 1.37% Europe 8,529,261 90,134 1.06 Middle East and Africa 2,758,152 26,793 0.97% In the end, the data is there and, although there are reasons for flight cancellation that are understandable due to maintaining the passage, when it touches us it is not a dish of good taste. In Xataka | There are people getting free flights and money at the expense of airlines. Your superpower: be very patient

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