A measure "
less radical than the ban on traffic during periods of pollution
": the deputy Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) Julien Bayou came to Nice, an important platform for business aviation, on Sunday March 19, to defend his proposal legislation prohibiting private jet flights.
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"
Is it radical to force an ultra-rich to take the plane (commercial, editor's note) or to take the train, because in fact that's it, if we ban private jet
flights
" , wondered Julien Bayou during a conference held in front of the tarmac of Nice airport, the second French platform for business aviation behind Paris-Le Bourget.
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Bill presented on April 6
"
The Paris-Lille, the Paris-London or the Paris-Brussels can very well be done by train, in first class, in a very comfortable way, and failing that by plane" (
commercial), estimated the deputy for Paris.
"
A Paris-Nice round trip by plane is the consumption of a car over a year
", pointed out the elected ecologist, who came by train to the Côte d'Azur.
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Presented by around twenty deputies including Delphine Batho and Sandrine Rousseau, this bill aimed
at “banning private jet flights
” to promote ecological transition will be presented on April 6 during the day reserved for environmentalists at the Assembly.
The ban would concern “
non-scheduled passenger air transport services that are not commercially operated
”, as well as non-scheduled public air transport services “
whose number of passengers is less than sixty
”.
