How to make green travel more attractive? Let’s make flying more expensive while we do fuck all about all other types of transport.

by philipthe2nd

14 comments

  1. Let me guess… the minimum price will be a heck of a lot more than the price of the cheap flights we have today?

    Great idea!!! 🙄

  2. TBH, if flights within Europe are too expensive, I will probably be using the car more often, not the slow trains :\

    Build us more bullet trains instead of just raising the flights prices.

  3. breaking news: ryanair has decided to order 300 airbus a320s

  5. Well, fuck you, first go and ban private jets and oversized boats.

  6. Yeah, let’s do that without making travelling by train more accessible, reliable and comfortable first. (/s)

    I would also like to know what this would mean for flights between island territories and the mainland, as a fellow islander.

  7. Neymar flying to Saudi Arabia in a private 747 is fine but a family flying to the south of Spain with Ryanair once a year? Can’t be having that!

  8. In France there is zero innovation.. they can just tax and spend

  9. How about we start with a mandate that Mr. Clement Beaune have to fly on the commercial flights only and not on a business or a first class whenever he travels anywhere and definitely not on some private jets?

  11. A blatant attempt to protect AirFrance Klm from competitive low cost carriers. During COVID lockdown the legacy carriers were supported by tens of billions of government money whilst Ryanair wisely kept their pilots and paid them from their reserves. The legacy carriers also furloughed their flight crews. Now the legacy carriers have to re-hire pilots at higher prices as well as being saddled with increasing interest rates on their huge government loans…

  12. The second this whole planes vs trains debacle started I knew it would end in flying becoming more expensive instead of trains becoming more affordable.

  13. I swear every week is a new regulation in Europe lol Is this all these people do

  14. As long as they subsidise trains with the incoming tax i am fine.

    But having expensive trains and making flights expensive is not a fair deal.

    Please improve trains, because intercountry trains are shit. DB trains are shit. Only Ouigo, Avlo, Iryo and Italo are on the low budget segment and they barely run intercountry routes.

    We need easier intercountry ticketing, connection regulations, and an easier registration process for companies to be present in every EU country. Also standardised rail infrastructure like ERTMS.

    We should talk about better trains more before we kill air travel. We should kill air travel, but with a viable alternative.

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