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"France will increase taxes on flights to invest more in its railways, the
country’s Transport Minister Clément Beaune announced this week.
The move aims to make train travel more appealing by closing the price gap
between airline tickets and train tickets.
“Many people are shocked by the fact that it’s often cheaper to take a flight
than a train,” he told French broadcaster RMC.
It’s a similar picture across the continent. Last month Greenpeace released an
analysis showing that taking a train is on average double the cost of flying.
The report compared the costs of flight and train tickets on 112 routes in
Europe, including 94 cross-border connections.
It found that they are almost always cheaper by plane.
One of the main reasons for the disparity is the lower taxes that the aviation
industry benefits from."
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Future Crunch:
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