Since June 1, international flights have been operated from and to Algeria with six different countries around the world. This opening of the sky comes after more than a year of total closure of the borders, dictated by the health crisis. However, and despite this openness, the Algerian diaspora is crying scandal and denouncing the high cost of plane tickets and the prices charged by airlines.
in his latest outing, senator Abdelouhab Benzaim, revealed the prices charged by foreign airlines for their flights to Algeria. The senator, therefore the aim is to attack the acting CEO of Air Algérie, finds that the national company has given free rein to foreign airlines to put them in their pockets.
On his Facebook page, Abdelouahab Benzaim indicates, in an open letter to the interim CEO of air Algeria, Amine Mesraoua, that the national company “has lost under its management what it had not lost during the last ten years” . “Your management is catastrophic,” writes Benzaim, who adds, again to the CEO of air Algérie, that “the foreign companies have made considerable gains at the expense of the national company”.
An economic crime, according to Benzaim it is to back up his remarks that the senator reveals the ticket’s prices to Algeria as charged by foreign companies. According to Benzaim, “Tunis air sells Tunis-Paris between 850 euros and 1050 euros on their site directly. Air France only sells Paris-Algiers, between 650 euros and 850 euros. Vueling sells the Marseille-Oran between 650 euros and 800 euros. ASL sells Paris-Algiers between 600 euros and 900 euros “.
“You can check on the official sites”, finally blurted Benzaim, who is attacking for the second time in just 24 hours the CEO of air Algérie, to whom he promises “a meeting next September”. The senator accuses the acting CEO of the national airline of being behind an “economic crime”, since the purpose of Air Algérie is “above all commercial”.
For Benzaim, Amine Mesraoua, the interim CEO of Air Algeria, instead of “being interested in what is happening on the national market and preparing administrative and commercial solutions in times of crises, is too busy selling tickets for his relatives and friends by leaving the rest of the Algerians a prey to foreign companies ”.
