France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by baud147258 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:52AM (#20393028)

Except that trains don't have the same possible destinations, you can't (easily) take a train to a destination outside EU. I think the gov went in the wrong direction here, the tax for flights within France should have been the highest, to give more incentives for using the train

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by LargeWu on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:03PM (#20393174)

That's OK. Nobody is forcing you to take the train, you're just being expected to pay for the environmental costs of your decision to fly, should you choose to do so.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by inflatableDodo on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:00PM (#20393139)

>Except that trains don't have the same possible destinations

I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station. There do however appear to be plenty of rail stations that do not have airports.

>you can't (easily) take a train to a destination outside EU.

Britain is about to test this theory. But also, that is nonsense. Passenger trains leave and enter the EU all the time.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by sebazzz on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:48PM (#20393800)

> I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station.

I went to a business trip from AMS (Schiphol) to WRO (Wroclaw). Wroclaw airport does not have any rail station (the nearest is a kilometer away). We had to take the shuttle bus to the train station in Wroclaw city centre.

The train from AMS would probably have taken over a day. Excluding check-in and luggage drop-off, flying took less than two hours.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by baud147258 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:06PM (#20393235)

> I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station.

Could you contact me when I would be able to buy a Paris-Tunis train ticket, please?

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by ceejayoz on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:19PM (#20393400)

There are ferries from Tunis to various spots in Italy, at which point you can likely hop on a train.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by benj111 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:09PM (#20393269)

"I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station"

Leeds Bradford

One is planned to be built though.

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