2023-09-01 00:55:57
He French Minister of Transport, Clément Beaunewill propose “in the next few days” to his counterparts in the European Union to create “a minimum rate” on plane tickets to “fight against the dumping (sale at a loss) social and environmental”.
This has been stated in an interview with the L’Obs portal, collected by the AFP news agency, in which he has defended that the launch prices do not cover the real cost per passenger of air transport, which “emits many more greenhouse gases greenhouse than the railway”.
“At a time of ecological transition, it is no longer possible to pay for plane tickets of 10 euros”, added the minister, arguing that “it does not reflect the price for the planet”, alluding to certain pricing policies of the low cost airlines.
Tax polluting activities
In addition, Beaune has justified that he “fully” accepts the need to tax polluting activities to invest in this ecological transition.
This proposal would be a new step for the French country in its fight against climate change in the aviation sector, since it recently banned regional flights when there is an alternative train lasting less than two and a half hours, affecting air links between Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon and Paris-Orly.
France recently banned regional flights when there is an alternative train lasting less than two and a half hours, affecting air links between Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon and Paris-Orly.
In that sense, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), through its general director, Willie Walsh, described the measure as “completely absurd” and that “it is useless”.
Thus, Walsh explained that if all routes of less than 500 kilometers in Europe were eliminated, 24% of flights would be suppressedbut instead, CO2 emissions would fall by only 3.84%, citing a Eurocontrol report.
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