FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX) - German airline group Lufthansa will start charging
an additional fee for flights beginning next year to cover part of
the cost of European Union environmental regulations, the company
announced on Tuesday.

The size of the fee will depend on the length of the flight and is
expected to be between ?1 and ?72 ($1 to $77), and will be charged
for flights departing on or after January 1, 2025.

Lufthansa will charge the fee for take-offs of Lufthansa flights as
well as subsidiary airlines in all 27 EU countries as well as in the
United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland.

Lufthansa subsidiaries include Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines,
SWISS and Eurowings.

The EU regulatory costs passed on with the fee include changes to the
EU's emissions trading scheme and requirements for sustainably
produced bio-kerosene, known as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF),
which must be added to aviation fuel in accordance with EU
regulations from next year.

Airlines have already shown individual price components from time to
time in the past. With the new environmental fee, it remains unclear
what proportion of the additional regulatory costs passengers will
have to bear.


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