France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights

And LH to and from Strasbourg has long been a very comfortable bus ride. Also on time.

Good point. There are plane-to-train bookings at United's Newark hub (EWR). Involves the Airport's monorail shuttle to Amtrack's Newark Airport train station.

Can connect south to Amtrack's Philadelphia 30th St Station. Going North, can travel on Amtrack to New Haven, Connecticut. Train segments are booked as United flight numbers & you earn miles.

Yes, it's unfortunate that people immediately are prone to use derogatory terms for people who do not agree with them. It's not about a "liberal" education, by the way, as one person just put it - I think it's more about the ability of people to express opinions hiding behind a keyboard/screen thanks to modern technology.

Welcome to the our new self serving society. We have the right to our opinions and demand acceptance but refuse to hear or accept anyone else.

Sign of the times David. Civility is dead thanks to social media.

The same purpose as canceling. We are a nation of the feral. To blame? Look at where formerly young people spent their time, liberal education and broken families. The problem is far worse than trains in France.

Right but the crossover point in my opinion is if you are connecting and need to change train stations in Paris, then the airplane starts to make a lot more sense.

I travel by train in Europe often. Whether you are reducing carbon footprint or not, for many routes the train is just easier and faster. Munich to Berlin or Vienna is a little over an hour flight but add on the journey to and from the airport plus getting there 90 minutes early it is the same as the 4 hour train ride in time. It just is more convenient for certain distances to go by train if you have the infrastructure for high speed rail. I am not sure a mandate will be successful.

I give it a negative remark. I say let the customers choose for themselves. Banning flights will only reduce competition, which will decrease choices and efficiency for passengers, and ultimately runs a serious risk of actually worsening carbon footprint in the longrun due to both reduced economic efficiency and inability of companies to respond to new market pressures (since the restriction is just that: disincentivizing airlines to improve their footprint).

I applaud the goal/purpose/motive, but I fear in the long run it will delay France's ability to go carbon neutral.

Arrogant, condescending, authoritarian, and wrong. And for certain you do not understand the "science of emissions and global warming".

In almost every case including this one the best way to accomplish any public goal is to use market forces to achieve that goal.

CDG to NCE on Air France is 1h20min minutes. On an SACF train, 7h40min.

Those who think they know and understand everything are a real PIA to those of us that do.

Perhaps Calvin Nacelle could pitch in..

This forum needs a block feature.

Suppose you needed to connect from Paris CDG to Nice. There is a direct train departing from CDG Roissy and arriving at Lyon Part Dieu. Services depart hourly, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 2h.

The problem with the idea of continuing to make it worse, and profiting from it, is that the global environment is like a huge ocean liner, or for effect, a massive oil tanker. It's steaming at flank speed and more fuel is being tossed in to it to cause CO2 levels to continue rising, and smog to trend worse. What the environmental effects of the various pandemic lock downs conclusively show is that it IS humans that are causing Climate Change, and it IS POSSIBLE to slow it, and reverse it. It really IS possible to slow the destruction of the planet down.

Now, look at the weather this year, so far. Over and over again, the south has been pummeled by severe weather and tornadoes. People have died, and homes and businesses have been destroyed. Climate change has, and will increasingly have, a profound negative effect on the economy and human lives. And we aren't talking just pollution here, we are talking seasonal change, winters producing less snow, widespread drought and then torrential and flooding rains, and more numerous and stronger tornadoes and wind and lightening storms.

We are causing this, and the 'ultra rich are contributing way more than the rest of us, and WE can slow it. If we don't, more people are going to die, and more people are going to lose everything they value in the world, and lose their homes, their employment, their food, water, livelihood.

So, sure, let's kill the canary in the coal mine that is warning us that we are doomed unless we change how we deal with the climate we are poisoning against us. I'd love to be able to hop on light rail and go to other cities in the state I live in. Politicians surgically attached to polluting corporations forbid it.

Get Money Out Of Politics!!! Money is addicting, and politicians are no different than drug addicts! We Deserve Better!

It takes big government dollars to build a rapid inter-city rail system like they have in Europe and Asia. We know that nothing gets done in the U.S.A. until fat cats figure out how to enrich themselves with it. So, keep flying and driving.

While Europe isn’t gunning its own residents down its doing way more to address its climate and industrial problems than the US ever has. No amount of pontificating will ever show the US does anything long term, it’s all dollar today and screw tomorrow. That’s why the US aid failing on every front going right now. Your own greed and lack of community.

You have a child's grasp of economics.

Well this post says it all do as I say not as I choose to do. Yup you just sunk all of your posts with this one. And how many were in the car and was it loaded to its capacity? Or didnt your dear wife want to just be another person on the road? Sorry you lost on all your points.