France Is on the Brink of Banning Domestic Short-Haul Flights Alerts Travelers walk to an Air Corsica Airbus A 320 to Marseille during the Christmas holidays, at Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte airport on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on December 23, 2020. Photo: Pascal Pochard-Casabianca (Getty Images) People took fewer flights amid the covid-19 pandemic, which helped to lower carbon pollution from aviation by roughly 60%. Now, France is trying to make some of that reduction permanent. Advertisement The French national assembly advanced legislation on Saturday that would ban all sho...