On Friday 2 December, in an implementing decision, the European Commission approved the measure decided by the French government to ban domestic flights when the same journey takes less than 2.5 hours by train.
The text published in the Official Journal of the EU states that this decision will be reviewed after 3 years and will also apply to connecting flights.
“I welcome the Commission’s decision, which will allow further steps to be taken to effectively ban airlines from flying when...