The cost of flights from France will rise next month when the government more than doubles its “solidarity tax” on tickets. The tax of flights on private jets will also increase. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jérôme du Boucher, aviation manager at the Paris-based organization Transport and Environment, about the increase on taxes which the French government says is fair on ecological and fiscal grounds, but critics say will make French carriers less competitive.
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