Overview
- Travel site reports say Volotea told customers who already bought tickets to pay an extra €7 for fuel or risk denied boarding.
- Volotea’s published ‘Fair Travel Promise’ allows a fuel-related adjustment up to €9 per passenger, per flight, seven days before departure.
- The airline’s contract says it can charge increases or issue refunds using the original payment method if fuel prices change.
- Legal analysts argue the practice likely conflicts with French consumer law and EU price-transparency rules that require all unavoidable fees to be included at purchase.
- Spain’s Supreme Court upheld a separate Volotea clause on post-booking airport tax changes, but commentators note that ruling covered third‑party taxes, not an airline operating cost like fuel.