The first flights after the weakening of quarantine measures, both within Russia and in other European countries show that there is a large pent-up demand for travel. Overall, however, passenger traffic for the first two weeks of June have not yet exceeded 40-45% from last year. Airlines will have to work hard to regain passenger who is afraid to fly and afraid to spend money. The easiest way is to give a good discount, but this is often not the carrier allows not only to compensate for the loss of idle time and save up for the winter season, but just to break even work.European and American airlines received from their own governments billions in subsidies (Lufthansa, AirFrance-KLM, IAG, Norwegian, etc.) can afford to fly half-empty planes or sell a significant portion of the tickets below cost. Russian carriers in General while can rely only on yourself, your passengers and short term loans, which in the future will only aggravate the situation.Resuming flights of the Russian airline, on the one hand, have to dump to bring on Board passengers. But as soon as the airline opens flights, they will return to the expenses which they are unable to pay for fuel and airport fees. This year, the “high summer season” for the airlines will not be mass if the flight starts, it is only in late July—August, and the total passenger traffic, profits will be much less than usual. That is, the airline in the summer can not save traditional financial reserves allowing it to survive the winter season, generating minimal income. If the situation does not change in any magical way, and the airline won’t get much help from the state, then in early autumn, some of them just go away. This is a common situation for the Russian market, where almost every year falls at least one major player out of the top ten carriers. Obviously fall, a wave of bankruptcies and foreign airlines, particularly the second row that has not received sufficient state support.That would clear the market and will allow airlines to raise the price. It always happens — we could see that even in the midst of a pandemic of the airline, who turned a situational monopoly in a particular market, then raised prices. And no matter if it was a small Russian airline, flying from a distant Northern city, or the largest European network carrier, suddenly the only remaining in some Eastern European capital.So passengers should not expect low prices in the fall / winter 2020. Airlines in the market will be less remaining will be forced to raise prices at least to the level of costs. Do not forget that in the 2018-2019 year�� in Europe, more than 40% of the tickets were sold below cost, at least a quarter of the airlines operating at a loss. The issue of tariff increase is long overdue, and the current crisis allows airlines to finally solve this problem.Does this mean that now passengers have to run and, while airlines are dumping to buy tickets for the distant future? The answer is simple — Yes, but only if you are willing to safely lose the money. Now there is no clear understanding when and what flights will be operated, especially for international flights. This circumstance, however, does not prevent many airlines sell tickets for flights that will never be fulfilled. For example, the third largest European low-cost airline Norwegian AS still sells on its website tickets for international flights (for example, from Budapest to new York with a stopover in Oslo) even for this summer. The only trouble is that in may, the airline signed an agreement on state aid with the government of Norway and lenders, pledging not to comply with international flights at least until spring 2022. And this example is far from unique. Russian passengers, according to statistics, is aware of the problem — the depth of sales of tickets has fallen to two to three days, while a year ago, more than 90% of the customers bought them in advance.Alexander Lanetsky, the General Director of the Friendly Avia SupportКак airline is ready to fight for next to vyrovnyayut
