Travel organization Connections will temporarily have 60 percent fewer bookings for flying holidays for next winter, compared to 2019, the year before corona. Rising fuel prices certainly play a role in this: they make holidaymakers think twice before booking a flight holiday. People are also waiting to decide, in the hope that prices will fall again.
“There is a sharp rise in energy costs, inflation, … everything is becoming a bit more expensive,” says aviation expert Luk De Wilde. “Where in the past people might go on holiday two or three times, now it will perhaps only stay with that summer holiday. And if all goes well and there is still some money left, maybe a short trip in the winter.”