French Minister of TransportClement Beaune I am working on limiting private jet flights at a time when efforts must be made to limit climate change and energy consumption, and I would like this measure to be implemented at the European level for it to be effective and have greater impact.
“I think we should mobilize and regulate private jet flights. They become symbols of a two-speed effort‘, explains Beaune in statements published by Le Parisien this Sunday.
His intention is to raise this issue. back from summer vacation Emmanuel Macron’s manager discusses the so-called “sobriety plan” that aims to implement the energy savings the European Union needs to face the crisis due to the war in Ukraine.
But at the same time, to bring this matter up to the next meeting with other EU transport authorities in October, according to his estimation, “The most effective thing is to act at the European level to have the same rules and more influence”.
According to the NGO Transport & Environnement, one-tenth of the flights in France correspond to private jets. In recent weeks, accounts critically monitoring the displacements on social networks, private planes of millionaires and celebrities.
Le Parisien states that the French minister is considering different possibilities. provocation measures To reduce the use of these flights to a regulation that imposes restrictions, through taxes with a deterrent effect.
Scenarios include forcing companies to make their travels by private plane or a device public to frame their use, and even thwart it if there is a problem. alternative by commercial flights or train.
This would be a way to expand the already existing device that prevents airlines from operating domestic flights in France when there is a shorter-duration train alternative. two and a half hours except when they will establish interconnection flights.
another idea, private aviation In the quota system of the future tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions being designed in the EU.
There is also a desire not to grow up behind his plans. the impression that there are different measuring sticks while demanding belt-tightening due to climate and energy urgency.