Domestic flight ticket prices returned to December rates/ Market Regulation Headquarters became responsible for ticket pricing.

In an interview with the economic reporter of Fars news agency, Maqsood Asadi Samani stated that: according to the prosecutor’s order to return domestic flight ticket prices to the previous rates and not apply a 30% increase in prices, we obey the prosecutor’s orders and domestic flight ticket rates It will return to the previous price.

He continued: The cost of airlines has increased significantly since last year, like the cost of other companies and service institutions, while the income of the companies has not increased. Certainly, if the domestic flight ticket rates are not adjusted, the airlines will have to pay for the parts and engines of the aircraft. They face a serious challenge and this issue causes the grounding of more aircraft in the fleet and affecting flight safety.

According to the Secretary of the Airline Companies Association, 175 of the 330 aircraft in the country’s air fleet are currently active, because the airlines have cash flow problems due to the lack of engines and are making losses, so the number of grounded aircraft has increased.

Asaadi Samani stated that more than 90% of the flights of state-owned airlines are unprofitable, and stated: The revenue of airlines, which is the ticket price, is Rials, but we have to pay expenses such as airport services in dollars.

* The headquarters of market regulation determines the price of plane tickets

He continued: According to the order that was the outcome of the meetings of the heads of the 3 branches and was communicated until the end of 1402, all rates must be approved by the headquarters of market regulation and then notified, and the same is true for the issue of air ticket prices, and the headquarters of market regulation of ticket prices Determines the aircraft.

The Secretary of the Association of Airline Companies said: The decision of the Supreme Council of Aviation regarding the 30% increase in domestic flight ticket rates is five months ago, but the non-notification of it is the negligence of the responsible institutions.

Pointing out that about 65% of the cost of airlines is in foreign currency, he added: When this 30% increase in domestic flight ticket rates was approved by the Supreme Aviation Council, the price of the dollar was below 30 thousand tomans, but today the price of the dollar is above 40 thousand tomans.

* Head of the Aviation Organization: The Supreme Council of Aviation was prohibited from determining the ticket price

According to the report, Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh, the head of the aviation organization, said today about the price of the plane ticket: With the increase in costs, the airlines demanded to increase the price of the plane ticket, and this request was also reviewed in the Supreme Council of Aviation.

The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development continued: But with the announcement of the presidency, the Supreme Council of Aviation was prohibited from determining the price of plane tickets, and now, based on the presidential order, the market regulation headquarters is responsible for the price of plane tickets.

He stated: The Supreme Council of Aviation has announced the rate to the market regulation headquarters after reviewing all aspects, and the market regulation headquarters is responsible for confirming and determining the air ticket price.

Mohammadi Bakhsh added: As long as the market regulation headquarters has not announced the new price of the plane ticket, any increase in the price of the ticket is illegal and the airlines cannot increase the price of the ticket.

Therefore, according to the report of yesterday, Maqsood Asaadi Samani, the secretary of the Airline Companies Association, said: according to the law of the fifth schedule, air transportation ticket rates have been released and should be subject to supply and demand. Based on paragraph (b) of Article 161 of the Fifth Development Plan Law and its extension in Article 53 of the Sixth Development Plan Law, the government is obliged to liberalize ticket rates and flight network. According to the law of the parliament, the release of the ticket rate is the responsibility of the government and it cannot bypass it; This year, the costs of airline companies increased, we proposed a 40% increase in ticket rates with evidence to the Supreme Aviation Council, but this spring, a 30% rate was approved by the Supreme Aviation Council, which apparently was also approved by the market regulation headquarters.

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