At the same time, the advent of widespread video-conferencing during the health crisis has led to the adoption of new habits.
In the wake of stormy debates on March 29 and April 17, the French parliament finally voted to outlaw domestic flights of less than two and a half hours in cases where a direct train link already exists. The new measure, which has been decried as harsh by France’s airlines and insufficient by the country’s environmentalists, aims to limit carbon dioxide emissions caused by air travel.
Two recent studies, including one published in March by the British NGO Possible, have shown that only a very small section of the global population regularly takes the plane, and business travelers or those who travel for work account for a significant proportion of this group.