By encouraging travellers to take the train instead of flying, ‘it could cut global emissions’.
Jacques Damas said that “there is no point to fly” between the two cities, but that airlines were able to undercut rail because they faced lower costs and did not have to pay for the cost of the carbon they emit.
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