France Considers Ban on Ultra-Cheap Flights to Morocco Amid Climate Concerns

France may be tempted by this decision by Austria. The Minister of Ecological Transition, Elisabeth Borne, has also estimated that "traveling so cheaply does not reflect the real cost of the ticket". "It’s quite shocking that you’re led to believe that a Paris-Marrakech or a Paris-Prague flight costs 15 euros, it costs a lot more than that to the planet," she said.

A huge cost for the planet due to the pollution generated by air traffic, but also a cost for the airlines. An opinion that Frédéric Pilloud, the digital director of MisterFly, a flight search engine, does not fully share. For him, "these highly attractive rates actually only concern very few seats on the plane; they are mainly call prices to attract the customer," he said on TF1.

It is clear that the company would lose money, "but what it will look at is the overall filling of its flight, and its average price. So the person who will buy their ticket two days before departure will pay 5 to 6 times more for their ticket," he explains.

If France were to set a floor price, this could be detrimental to thousands of foreign tourists. "Low-cost flights have allowed Northern Europeans to come regularly, and even often in some cases, to spend holidays in the tourist territories of the South. If airline ticket prices increase, it is probably these tourists who will be missed in the activity of Southern Europe," comments the economist and journalist of LCI Pascal Perri.