Originally Posted by Satie

Honestly this is the kind of powerful government announcement that will never happen in my opinion.
You can not impose that to AF but not to U2 or FR.
On flights from BOD/LYS/NTE to CDG, 80% of the pax are connecting to long-haul flights. On flights to ORY, there are many pax connecting to Antilles and La Reunion. And it doesn’t make sense (economically and environmentally) not to the sell the remaining seats, as the carbon footprint would be higher per pax.
Yes AF can use smaller planes, but as someone pointed out they are less efficient, so not really an improvement.
AF can also reduces the number of flights, but that would benefit competitors such as LH, BA, EK in these markets.

But anyway, I am skeptical that this measure will materialize.