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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Milo Boyd

France bans short-haul domestic flights while UK slashes tax on internal routes

Domestic short-haul flights have been banned in France where alternative train routes exist in a bid to cut carbon emissions.

Just one month after the UK slashed tax on internal flights, Emmanuel Macron's government has introduced a ban on certain aviation routes within the country.

In a bid to cut carbon emissions, routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours have been banned.

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