France to completely abolish domestic flights 'within two and a half hours by train'
On April 11, 2021, a bill was passed by the French House of Representatives to 'totally abolish domestic flights within two and a half hours by train.'
France to ban some domestic flights where train available | Air France / KLM | The Guardian
France bans air travel that could be done by train in under 2.5 hours | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/france-bans-air-travel-that-could-be-done-by-train-in-under-2-5-hours/
The new bill, which has passed the French House of Representatives, is regarded as part of measures against global warming, which is an urgent issue worldwide. The bill originally abolished most of France's domestic flights, 'within four hours by train,' but is now in response to strong opposition from some regions and Europe's largest airline, Air France-KLM. The distance was set to 'within two and a half hours by train'.
The specific domestic flights to be abolished are the five sections of 'Paris-Bordeaux', 'Paris-Lyon', 'Paris-Nant', 'Paris-Renne' and 'Lyon-Marseille', 3 hours by train 7 'Paris-Marseille' which takes minutes, 'Paris-Toulouse' which takes 4 hours and 6 minutes, and 'Paris-London' which is an international flight within 2.5 hours by train are not covered. In addition, connecting flights are an exception, so there is no direct impact on overseas travelers using international flights.
As the bill passes the House of Representatives, the domestic air routes connecting the above five sections are suspended, and if the bill passes the Senate, it will be officially abolished. The French government has already announced plans to invest 4 billion euros (about 520 billion yen) in response to the expected blow of the aviation industry, and has begun to move in anticipation of a 'post-pandemic' revival of the aviation industry. ..
This bill follows the new law enacted by Austria in June 2020, 'Abolishing domestic flights within 3 hours by train', but in the French House of Representatives, 'disproportionate' from the right and left parties. Negative opinions such as 'It costs a lot of labor costs' and 'There will be more unemployed people in the aviation industry that was hit hard by the pandemic of the new coronavirus' and 'If the original plan is' within 4 hours by train ', it will reduce carbon dioxide emissions. There is a confrontation with the positive opinion that 'there is a clear difference.' The current plan, which the two factions spent the weekend in a heated debate, affects only five sections of the French domestic flight, and is reported by The Guardian in the British letter as a 'watered version'.
According to the (PDF file) material created by Réseau Action Climat, a French non-governmental organization working on the fight against climate change and the transition to ecology, the '5 sections' targeted this time are national extension flights. Since it is '108 sections', the ratio is 'less than 5%'.
For all the talk about forcing Air France to replace flights with a HSR option as part of the bailout, less than 5% of the domestic routes are affected.
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