[bjeds]

I wonder what the unintended consequences are with this measure. Here are some:

1) I can imagine weird situations where a multi-leg flight could be broken up by this ban, especially if you are traveling from the middle of nowhere (connected to a smaller airport in France) and you are flying to another middle of nowhere place (connected by _another_ smaller airport in France). Instead of having one flight, you now have two flights with a train trip in the middle, which can of course be inconvenient in case the first flight is delayed and so on.

2) Say I live in one of the larger French cities, but not Paris. I want to travel to northern Japan, for example. Previously I could go to my local airport and transfer in Paris CDG. However now there are two other options viable for me because I can no longer fly to Paris: I can either take the train to Paris (Charles de Gaulle), hauling my checked luggage on the train and possible taxis (skis, travel gear, lots of duffels)... Or I can just go to my local airport, dump the luggage on that airport, and transfer in Frankfurt.

[ip26]

I found taking TGV to Paris CDG a pretty good experience.

[conradfr]

Apparently the law has an exception for connecting flights but I'm not sure it will work in practice.

[ivan1783]

You have a source?

[conradfr]

> Une exception toutefois pour les lignes qui permettent une correspondance vers l'étranger. Même chose pour les liaisons entre les régions.

https://www.lci.fr/planete/interdiction-des-vols-courts-en-f...

[baby]

The experience would be better: you take the train at the train station near by your place, then you arrive at the airport directly.