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France’s Transport Minister has said ‘€10 flights aren’t possible anymore,’ because they do not properly reflect plane travel’s impact on the environment. He plans to propose a new minimum flight price policy to the EU.
Europeans may soon be waving goodbye to cheap city breaks if a new proposal aimed at ending low-cost flights within the EU is accepted.
Putting forward the idea is Clément Beaune, France’s Transport Minister. His aim is to enforce a minimum flight price in order to ‘fight against social and environmental dumping’ and ensure that the cost of plane tickets adequately reflects the price paid by the planet.
The aviation industry is responsible for 2.4 percent of total global CO2 emissions annually, which doesn’t sound like a lot in the grand scheme of things. However, this amount is equivalent to the annual emissions of entire countries, specifically Germany and Japan.
Increasing the cost of flights may seem like a feasible way to discourage people from taking unnecessary trips abroad – or better yet, to realise the environmental impact of their journey – but some aren’t so convinced.
According to the climate campaign group Possible, 15 percent of people living in the UK take 70 percent of all flights. In France, 2 percent of people take 50 percent of all flights.
Considering this, many believe frequent flyers should be targeted – not people taking one cheap flight a year for a summer holiday.
