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You may have read the story: “France bans short domestic flights where passengers can take the train.”
The article by my colleague Helen Coffey describes how the French government made a €4bn (£3.5bn) recapitalisation of Air France contingent on cutting flights on routes where a rail journey taking less than two-and-a-half hours was feasible.
Now a group that promotes rail travel, and in particular “open access” train operators, is calling for the concept to be extended.
Allrail, the Alliance of Rail New Entrants, says flights on European routes where trains can cover the same ground in four hours or less should be grounded.