In a weird move, French lawmakers voted for banning short commercial flights that would be competing with high speed train lines lasting less than 2.5 hours. In effect, it's all journeys under 400Nm (thank you @Michel Van) that are potentially put under the exclusivity of the highly subsidized rail industry.
Interestingly, both the construction business and business jet aviation would be the direct beneficiaries of such decisions. As a result, more high speed rail lines would have to be constructed generating massive releases of carbon and, with the segregation of mass transportation b/w business and economy class, more flights would be flown carrying less passengers with for consequence a drastic drop in emissions efficiency.
Cost wise, taxpayers would now have to take the burden of heavy investments usually done by the private sectors, under market scrutiny in an open process...
For the airline industry that relies on reciprocal access to airspace and rights, it would be like if France semi-exited the ICAO: how would this affect cross border operations? What about Cabotage (the right to operate inside the airspace of another country without having to depart from your own territory) at the very center of European regulation? What will happen from cross border flights less than 400Nm? Would a Swiss national willing to take a bath in Spain will have to drop out of his national carrier plane and ride across France in a train? And what about arriving international flights? Will French have to disembark at Paris Charles de Gaulle to take the train while non-French nationals would transfer to another flight?
21st century Shadocks just dropped the shovel for mining with Nuclear explosives with a tiny fuze...
To my knowledge, such radical(ist?) approach is unseen yet. But what's would be your take on it? Would you see that as a new trend? An expected move? Something that could change the industry for the better? Or simply the end of your family summer vacations in Southern France?
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*And they pumped and pumped [trying to find oil]
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Interestingly, both the construction business and business jet aviation would be the direct beneficiaries of such decisions. As a result, more high speed rail lines would have to be constructed generating massive releases of carbon and, with the segregation of mass transportation b/w business and economy class, more flights would be flown carrying less passengers with for consequence a drastic drop in emissions efficiency.
Cost wise, taxpayers would now have to take the burden of heavy investments usually done by the private sectors, under market scrutiny in an open process...
For the airline industry that relies on reciprocal access to airspace and rights, it would be like if France semi-exited the ICAO: how would this affect cross border operations? What about Cabotage (the right to operate inside the airspace of another country without having to depart from your own territory) at the very center of European regulation? What will happen from cross border flights less than 400Nm? Would a Swiss national willing to take a bath in Spain will have to drop out of his national carrier plane and ride across France in a train? And what about arriving international flights? Will French have to disembark at Paris Charles de Gaulle to take the train while non-French nationals would transfer to another flight?
21st century Shadocks just dropped the shovel for mining with Nuclear explosives with a tiny fuze...
To my knowledge, such radical(ist?) approach is unseen yet. But what's would be your take on it? Would you see that as a new trend? An expected move? Something that could change the industry for the better? Or simply the end of your family summer vacations in Southern France?
French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.
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*And they pumped and pumped [trying to find oil]
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