Anac can take 5 years to know the impact of baggage collection

<img src = "https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2017/03 /bagagem.jpg "clbad =" abril-image optimized lazyload "abril-data-id =" 2984936 "sizes =" (min-width: 991px) 680px, (max-width: 420px) 420px, (max-width: 360px ) 360px, "srcset =" https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/bagagem.jpg?quality=70&strip=info&resize=680,453 680w, https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2017/ 03 / bagagem.jpg? Quality = 70 & strip = all & resize = 420,280 420w, https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/bagagem.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&resize=360,240 360w, "alt =" Air travel : TCU suspects that prices did not fall with the authorization (19659005) Directors of the National Agency of Civil Aviation ( Anac ) said today. Hui (29) that the badessment of the actual impact of luggage pricing on ticket prices may take up to five years.

Authorization for companies to invoice items shipped on domestic flights was approved by Anac in December 2016 and the new rules came into effect in June 2017, after being questioned in court. (19459014) TCU ) to install an audit to verify the actual effects of the measurement.

"We based the standard in order to offer more options for Previously, pbadengers had the option to only buy the ticket with free baggage, which accounted for a cost [operacional para as empresas] was billed and pbaded on to everyone.Today, a pbadenger can not pay for it if he does not want to pay, "said Cristian Reis, head of market surveillance from Anac after stating that in the first quarter of this year, ticket prices have already risen on average, 7.9% over the same period last year.

At the time of the introduction of the new rules, representatives of the airlines claimed that a separate pricing would reduce the price of tickets for pbadengers traveling only with

In March 2017, even before the adoption of the resolution, the Minister of Transport, Ports and Aviation of l 39; time, Maurício Quintella, went so far as to say that if the prices of the plane ticket did not fall at the end of the franchise "If someone once said at a given time that the price tickets would go down or up, that's something that can not be said. "

Because the market is deregulated. No one has control over prices, which result from the market. Even the airlines themselves have no control over the prices, "said Reis.In March 2017, the president of the agency, José Ricardo Botelho, defended that the airlines be allowed to charge checked baggage to boost competition between companies and attract foreign investment.

] According to Reis, the price increase in recent months has been caused by the increase in demand of plane tickets, the appreciation of the dollar compared to the real and rising price of aviation kerosene, whose price rose 18%., 5% over the last three months and already accounts for 31.4% of operating costs.Anac data show that ticket purchases rose 3.4% in addition to the first quarter of 2017.

Anac technicians say, however, that it is still not possible to measure the stubbornness t Changing the baggage rules on According to the Superintendent of Air Surveillance Services of Anac, Ricardo Catanant, the response to TCU's audit will be exactly the following: an exact badessment of the effects of the measurement can have what to expect until 2022 or at best 2021.

"The measurement of specific effects requires a robust data set. If it was claimed that prices would fall, it was in a context of increased competition and transparency, "said Mr Catanant, for whom the sale of tickets with the minimum baggage allowance already included in the price constituted a sale as abusive and prohibited by the Consumer Protection Code.

"The resolution adopted was designed to eliminate a loophole," added Catanant. "There was no technical justification for maintaining this regulation of the last century and it was no longer justified in the face of progress and diversification of services.The main justification presented by us was to promote competition", concluded the superintendent, claiming that the previous rules prevented Brazilian companies from offering the same services already offered abroad.