veroandiDec 3, 2022

"It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel. The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours"

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https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals

Short-haul flights are now banned in France thanks to new law

The idea for the ban originally came from a Citizens' Assembly.

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Given the option of a 2.5 hour train ride and a 1 hour flight, the train wins. A flight takes longer and is just plain miserable, unless you just arrived transatlantic, and now must take a train into Paris, then change stations, and then take another train, or two. That would just suck. That means fly to LHR, or AMS or FRA or something first. Not so good for the French Airlines.
Dec 5, 2022 at 1:02amWeb