The ban on short domestic flights in France in case of alternative by train in less than 2h30 came into force on Tuesday. This ban provided for by the Climate and Resilience Act of 22 August 2021, and already applied in practice, was suspended pending an in-depth investigation by the European Commission.
The law mainly endorsed the existing, since the government had forced Air France to give up the routes concerned in return for financial support in May 2020, at the time of the Covid crisis.