Air transport has become immensely popular with passengers who no longer feel the need to put their luggage in the hold and prefer hand luggage in the cabin. But the air collides with an ecological problem that he did not see coming.
Air France will expand the luggage compartments in aircraft cabins because no one wants to register his bags in the hold.
No one wants to waste time on arrival, picking up their suitcases on the treadmill.
Everyone embarks with his luggage in the cabin, small suitcases to the dimensions of luggage boxes.
The problem is that in an A320, there are 100 seats for suitcases but 165 seats. It creates tensions when boarding because everyone moves the suitcase of the other, to try to place his.
Air France has therefore decided to install new 60% larger luggage compartments in its aircraft. That way, there will be as much storage as seats.
This evolution reflects a complete change in our relationship to the air?
In the past, flying was an event. We arrived well in advance and we checked his luggage in the hold to go far.
From now on, we take the plane as we change shirts.
EasyJet, for example, is 100 million passengers a year and 80% of leisure flights. We go on holiday, for the weekend and there is no question of wasting time with his bags.
Like in a train, you keep your luggage with you.
Except that the air is accused of being much more polluting than the train. For these short trips, we are told now that the plane must be avoided.
We wonder if these short trips will continue, it is the whole model of low-cost companies that is questioned. It is quite incredible to see how, in six months, this ecological issue has fallen on the air sector. Nobody saw her coming.
This is the proof, as the boss of the Medef (Geoffroy Roux de Bézieus) says, that more than the unions, the companies must today listen to the NGOs and constantly probe the public opinion for not not to take a kind of ecological fatwa, as is currently the case of air transport.