Which country is stopping internal flights?

It's official: France bans short-haul domestic flights in favour of train travel. The idea for the ban originally came from a Citizens' Assembly. France's ban on short-haul domestic flights comes into force today (23 May).



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The ban on short domestic flights was part of a wide-ranging law to tackle climate change that was passed in 2021 with the goal of lowering France's greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Macron's government recently unveiled an accelerated road map to cut those by 50 percent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

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10 Worst European Airports — Airports With Highest Percentage of Flight Disruptions
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Many airports around the world enforce night curfews to limit noise pollution. Whilst there are a fair few red-eye flights in the US, you might have noticed that it's not always possible to book late-night flights in some countries. That's because of airport curfews.

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Currently, the bragging rights for the longest flight in the world belong to Singapore Airlines' New York City to Singapore route. Its longest flight path, which connects Singapore's Changi Airport with New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, 9,585 miles away, takes 18 hours and 40 minutes.

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