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Foreign Air Companies raise air ticket prices due to increase of fuel prices

04 February 2011 14:45 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Foreign air companies have increased the payments for fuel. As the result of this, the air tickets has risen 5%.

APA-Economics says the air tickets are expected to be risen 10% in summer. The main reason of this is the increase of oil prices over the world.

Australian Qantas Airways has increased the payments for fuel by 53% to AZN $53. German Lufthansa Company increased the fuel payments by 2 Euros on domestic flights, 10Euros on international flights. Air France has also increased the prices. Singapur Airlines increased the prices by $3-27 for flight distance and service class. Â«KLMÂ», Â«DeltaÂ», Â«Malaysian AirlinesÂ», Â«Cathay PacificÂ», Â«British AirwaysÂ», Â«All Nippon AirwaysÂ», Â«South African AirwaysÂ» and Â«JetBlueÂ» have also increased the prices.

AZAL did not increase the prices and thatâ€™s why no price rise observed in air tickets.

Note that, the price on Baku-Frankfurt-Baku flight has been increased to $ 974.