David Thomas JacksonA world first!
Today, France has banned domestic flights for journeys possible in less than two-and-a-half hours by train.
France also aims to get 9% of the population on bicycles by 2024, up from 3% (The Netherlands is already at 27%).
Pierre Bourdon@DTJackson that new law is designed to do as little as possible while bringing positive headlines. In practice, a total of 34 daily flights are impacted.
No route flying to/from CDG is impacted, because CDG has its own TGV station and so the 2h30 needs to be from the CDG station and not from Paris.
CDG-LYS can be done by train in 2h from CDG but then they decided "oh actually we don't like the train timetable" so it's also still allowed for no good reason.