Every hot review ｜ Innovative fuel surcharges and innovation high places can issue travel coupons for targetedness

Recently, a number of airlines issued a notice saying that starting from July 5 this year, domestic route fuel surcharges have been raised for standards: 800 kilometers (inclusive), and each passenger charges RMB 100; Each passenger collects RMB 200. This is the fifth time since the recovery of fuel fuel surcharges in domestic routes in February this year, and it is also the highest collection standard for my country since the collection of fuel surcharges in 2000.

The author noticed that after the fuel surcharge was raised this time, in fact, some routes had an inverted fare, that is, the naked price of air tickets was lower than fuel surcharges+airport construction fees. Netizens nicknamed this ticket as "air ticket assassin".

On the Weibo platform, the hot search entry "ticket fuel surcharges hit a record high" has reached 260 million, and the discussion exceeded 49,000 times.

This round of fuel surcharge is mainly due to the continued rise in domestic aviation fuel prices. According to statistical data, during the new round of price mining cycle, the price of aviation kerosene imported from July is expected to be 9,173 yuan/ton. The price in July last year was about 4569 yuan/ton, doubled a year. The continued epidemic has worsened the civil aviation industry. Song Zhiyong, director of the Civil Aviation Administration, revealed that before the epidemic, the civil aviation industry made a profit for 11 consecutive years. The total profit of 2019 reached 54.9 billion yuan, and the cumulative loss of nearly 300 billion yuan since the epidemic. In the first half of this year, the losses exceeded the loss of 2020 and 20121. As of now, the asset -liability ratio of airlines has reached 82.2%, an increase of 11.9 percentage points from the previous epidemic. To.

On the one hand, netizens have complained that the fuel surcharges are too high. "On the other hand," Civil Aviation lost 108.9 billion in the first half of the year "and" 12 airlines did not debt "and other topics also appeared on hot search. The current domestic epidemic prevention and control situation has improved. In the summer season, how to balance the contradiction between the two in the context of the release of passenger travel needs?

The author believes that at present, it is our primary task to stabilize the economic market. Under the background of stabilizing the economy, the passion of passenger travel still needs to be released. Local government departments, online travel agency platforms, and airlines can take corresponding measures to weaken passengers due to fuel due to fuel The impact of surcharges on travel decisions.

From the perspective of local government departments, the author has noticed that before the nationwide provinces and cities have been issued to drive consumption by issuing consumer vouchers, and there are some regions issuing online car rental coupons in cities, but long -distance travel coupons are relative less. The author believes that local governments can issue a targeted travel coupon for passengers who come to the province and cities in the summer, which can set the rules to a certain amount of subsidies for passengers' fuel surcharges.

In terms of platforms, some subsidy measures for fuel costs can be launched. In fact, many online travel agency platforms have launched subsidy measures for this round of fuel surcharges. For example, the Tongcheng Travel launched the "fuel fee card". The user purchased a fuel fee card of 88 yuan when booking a ticket, which can deduct the total fuel fuel surcharge of 150 yuan in three times. Flying Pig also said that the fuel fuel fee subsidy covering the entire summer will be launched in the near future.

For airlines, the level of service should be increased to increase the service level, use more humane services to increase reputation, and the negative impact of hedging fuel surcharges.

Daily Economic News

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