"There are urgent reasons, economic imperatives, but it cannot be an individual mode of comfort travel, while the general mobilization initiated by the president requires everyone to make an effort", had estimated with the Parisian on Saturday the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune, saying he was in favor of "regulation" and judging that these flights were becoming "the symbol of a two-speed effort".
"The jet has symbolic value, the symbols are important, the French must not have the feeling that it would always be the same ones from whom we would ask for efforts, that is to say the popular categories and the middle classes “, abounded Tuesday Mr. Véran on France Inter.
“We can understand that a Frenchman who is careful in his daily life (…) is shocked by the fact that some of his fellow citizens can take a private jet to make flea jumps”, he continued.
According to him however, "in the vast majority of cases, (these are) commercial transport, we send teams on site with a reactivity which is important, it creates jobs, so it is obviously not a question of 'prohibit it'.
"The Minister of Transport proposes to carry out a consultation at European level to see if there are ways to offset CO2 emissions" and "this consultation can have its meaning", added the spokesperson.
Denouncing the "ultra-rich, these billionaires who multiply whimsical private jet flights, Paris-Geneva, Paris-London", the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou wishes to extend to private jet flights the ban already voted in the Climate and Resilience law for airliners when there is an alternative by train of less than two and a half hours.
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“If you are ultra-rich, then you can do it by private jet, there is a real inequality so it is a question of extending this ban” because “making the ecological transition requires that everyone do their part and if the super rich, the super polluters, benefit from super exemptions, we will not be able to get out of it”, criticized the deputy for Paris on BFMTV.
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