The price of the ticket, possibly increased by new taxes, will be one of the variables making it possible to promote the least polluting means of transport and to finance the decarbonization of the sector, estimated Tuesday the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune.
“If we want to do both a little modal shift (towards less polluting modes of transport, mainly the train, editor’s note) and above all investment in the ecological transition, (…) it mainly goes through the price The price is partly the tax,” Beaune said at the Medef summer school in Paris.
“I want to do it proportionately, reasonably, etc.,” he said.
More generally, the regulation of transport – such as the prohibition of short flights on routes also provided by train – must, according to him, be “relevant and on the right scale”.
“The user must pay part” of the costs, he also judged. “It’s virtuous and it’s empowering,” he said.
The minister confirmed that the next finance bill would include taxes on motorway companies and air tickets.
“It is not to punish one mode of transport and finance another,” he qualified.
“The heart of the battle will be technical progress, innovation and investment, public and private”, to decarbonize the most polluting modes of transport, he stressed, acknowledging that travel by road and by plane still had a bright future ahead of them.
“I do not believe at all that the plane will disappear, I do not believe at all that the State should withdraw from financing the aeronautical sector (…) transport in general must be financed”, noted Mr. Beaune.
The tax increase “will also finance the 300 million euros per year that the State puts into the aeronautical sector to finance sustainable fuels (and) the green plane of tomorrow”, he argued.
“Of course prices will have to increase,” admitted the CEO of Groupe ADP, Augustin de Romanet, present at the same debate.
But “air transport is like maritime transport, it is also an activity that creates jobs”, he pleaded.
“Let’s not forget that tourism is 10% of GDP in France, and if we don’t have planes, we don’t have tourists,” he said.
“In the system that we are developing to finance the ecological transition, we will be attentive to the Overseas Territories”, specified Mr. Beaune to the media Outre-mer la 1ère, on the sidelines of the Medef meetings.
“We will see the exact device. There may be compensation, but the result, (…) is to preserve purchasing power, not to weigh more on the purchasing power of Ultramarines the questions plane tickets,” he added.
29/08/2023 15:53:24 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
