The President ordered the General Director of Air Algerie, Hamza bin HamoudaBy forming a special committee at the level Company It is concerned with re-examining flight prices, and the company has previously received dozens of complaints about the high prices of tickets, especially during the summer season.
Parliamentarian Qaid Najadi revealed, in a brief post on Facebook, that “this committee has set its work date for a maximum of two months. Its goal is to reduce prices in order to preserve the citizen’s pocket, but without harming the economic side of the company.”
This demand was the focus of parliamentary inquiries during the meeting that brought together members of the Transport, Communications and Telecommunications Committee, with the Minister of Transport, Mohamed Habib Zahana, the President and Director General of Air Algerie, the President and Director General of Air Algerie, and the President and Director General of the Services and Facilities Management Company. Algiers Airport The Director of the National Civil Aviation Agency, in addition to the directors of ““ETUSA”, “SNTF”, “ENTMV”, “SOGRAL“.
During the meeting, which lasted several hours of discussion, MP Qaid Najadi compared the prices of two flights, the first linking the city of the Algerian capital to Barcelona Airport in Spain. He said, “The flight distance is estimated at 600 km, while the time taken to travel from the moment of departure until arrival is estimated at one hour.” And a half of time, and the price of the ticket is estimated at 45,000 DZD, while the price of the flight from the state of Oran to Alicante, Spain, is estimated at 68,000 DZD, even though the flight distance is estimated at 300 km and its time does not exceed 45 minutes. The MP asked about “the reasons for the record and sudden increase in flight prices in the past years.” Last”.
Starting from this season, Air Algerie began a series of major discounts on… Ticket prices To and from important international destinations, especially France, which is known to host the highest percentage of the Algerian community. Compared to previous years, Air Algerie’s discounts this year were the highest.
As the parliamentarian explained, the reductions in prices would contribute to raising the revenues of this company, which, according to official figures, recorded unprecedented sales during the period extending between January 29 and last March 24, exceeding 47 thousand tickets, and these record sales coincided with major discounts approved by the company in Prices, and this is compared to last year, specifically during the period between March 21 and May 10, when the number of marketed tickets did not exceed 31 thousand tickets due to the timing of the announcement of the discounts, which was before the beginning of Ramadan. Many were unable to… Programming their trips.
The company said, “The recorded increase in sales comes in the context of major reductions approved by Air Algerie in ticket prices and previously ordered by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in order to facilitate the arrival of members of the national community from abroad to the homeland during the month of Ramadan, and the percentage of reductions reaches 50 percent.” “.
The company demonstrated its “readiness to improve and upgrade its services, achieve the highest level of quality, and develop the services provided to meet the aspirations and needs of customers and travelers.”
In recent months or even in recent years, the company has known “instability in its management,” and the most recent change was the dismissal of President Abdel Majeed. Tebboune In mid-February, the Director of the Algerian Air Force, Yassine Ben Slimane, appointed the Director General of the Civil Aviation Agency, Hamza Ben Hamouda, as his successor.
In conjunction with these changes, the National Union of Algerian Airlines Pilots pointed the finger at the former administrative team that was supervising the management of the company for the difficult conditions it is suffering from, and they called on the new management to develop a vision of what can be done to find ways out of the problems facing the company.
The union strongly criticized “the difficult conditions the institution is experiencing due to ill-considered decisions by the previous administration,” which President Tebboune had dismissed. The statement indicated that the previous administrative team “bears responsibility for the situation of the institution and the pilots who are suffering from major problems.”
The union had previously repeatedly warned of the dangers of the previous administration, and called for work to develop “real visions to find immediate solutions to the situation it is going through, considering that the contribution of pilots to its brilliance is essential and should not be confined to a specific corner, especially with the Hajj and summer summer seasons approaching for the year 2024.”
Fouad Q
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