Members of the climate change alarmist group Extinction Rebellion occupied runways at Paris Orly Airport on Friday, interrupting flights and demanding domestic air travel be canceled.
Airports in France, heavily impacted by coronavirus restrictions, begun increasing their operations only recently, but passenger flights were interrupted by the Extinction Rebellion group on Friday morning, with activists demanding that all domestic air travel in France be banned.
Extinction Rebellion insists that domestic air travel should be banned to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and carried banners at Orly stating “let’s save the living, not the planes.”
A Corsica Airlines aircraft was delayed by the group and forced to take off from a different runway, Le Figaro reports.
A member of the organization named Franck told French media: “It is a symbol of facing an airplane, to face what puts us in danger.”
The activist went on to note that he was surprised that the police reaction to the demonstration took as long as it did, saying, “We expected a faster reaction. It says a lot about security, anyone can enter.”
A spokesperson of the French Secretariat of State for Transport said that 29 people were arrested for entering the secure area of the airport.
Extinction Rebellion is not the only one on the side of banning domestic flights within France. The government of President Emmanuel Macron has also come out in support of such a policy, making it a requirement for Air France to receive coronavirus bailout cash.
French Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said that in order to get the cash, the airline would have to become the greenest airline in the world:
“It involves the elimination of domestic flights, and quite frankly when you can make the train journey in less than two and a half hours, taking a plane is not justified. It should not be a transitional measure but a definitive measure.”
Climate change extremists have previously made threats to the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, saying they would launch cyberattacks against the left-wing party for supporting bailouts for British airlines.
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Why don’t these idiots take their message to all those liberal celeberties that fly all over the world John Travolta owns a 707
These people only take trains for short distances. Flying doesn’t make sense to them.
This is a big world. Trains are not practical for long distances. Even high speed trains. And then there are those pesky oceans.
But these unemployed (or unemployable?) activists are unable to connect the dots on that advanced logic.
Read the article. Domestic flights.
I support both sides of this argument, although I don’t agree with these rebellion jerks always breaking the law. Re: flying – stop and think a second. Other than a critical or emergency health problem or surgery, there really is no reason to fly. Anywhere. Meetings are being held online, conversations using computers, laptops or cell phones. Death in the family? Send flowers. Wedding? Send an online gift card or Amazon gift. Flying just because you want to save a bit of time is ridiculous. Train service must be improved, but electric trains don’t pollute much.
Maybe if you live in little countries flying doesn’t make sense. Nice taking your local provincial outlook and solution and trying to make it fit to the rest of the world. Nice job thinking about no one but your own situation.
The Just Stinks Rebellion demands to ban all air travel yes these people are total idiots