Air travel: cheaper flights, more routes

In the aviation industry to deliver low-cost Airlines are in fierce competition. According to a new study, there are always more Connections to the increasingly favourable prices: a partially ruinous price war.

By Michael Immel, ARD-aviation expert

cheap aviators flying high - the number of routes reaches a new maximum: about 700 a week. And the ticket prices are falling. For the cheapest provider, there is the simple flight for 50 Euro. A recent study by the German center for air and space travel (DLR) shows. A partially ruinous competition, will not survive all of the Airlines.

"a Particularly strong, Easyjet, Wizz and Ryanair expanded its route network," says Peter Rupture, which twice a year takes the development of the so-called "Low Cost"Airlines under the microscope, and the results in a comprehensive paper together.

reveals The analysis: Ryanair, with almost 250 routes in the first place before Euro wings with 235 routes. The number of flights Eurowings dominated with more than 50 percent of the German market, the price is cheap flight deals.

The Trend of air travel is uninterrupted, regardless of all the climate protection goals.

together, it is expected that more than 5,300 flights per week. Thus, the growth is around ten percent above the value of last year. "Strictly speaking, also there are some lines of other companies, for example Lufthansa, would have to be in the analysis included, since it can also be partially-effective prices are to be found", so Rupture in the DLR Report.

Since this would not, however, apply only for a limited number of Seats, had not been taken into account, these routes, however.