the left wants to ban private jet flights, the government is considering regulating them

Singer Taylor Swift, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and billionaires Bernard Arnault and Vincent Bolloré have all been pinned down on social media this summer for their numerous private jet trips. From now on, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, in turn points the finger at these thefts, and is considering regulating them for greater fairness. “I think we have to act and regulate private jet flights. It becomes the symbol of a two-speed effort“, he said in Le Parisien.

Three avenues are on the table: making owners responsible by asking them to moderate their trips, forcing them to be more transparent by publishing their trips, and even taxing them with possible carbon quotas at European level. Insufficient for environmentalists, who denounce, for example, the industrialist Vincent Bolloré, who made five flights this summer in a single day. The government does not plan to ban these flights, given the economic weight of private aviation in France.