the Minister of Transport plans to regulate the use of ultra-polluting private jets

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 tracks would be on the table: make owners responsible by asking them to moderate their trips, oblige them to take more transparency by publishing their journeys, 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.