France to increase taxes on air travel
by editors@theworld.org (Stephen Snyder) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6V87T)
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 Jerome 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.