The plane not expensive enough? ADP boss responds to SNCF CEO – BFMTV

Augustin de Romanet believes on BFM Business that the exit of SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou was out of place and that the two modes of transport are complementary.

“It is not the train that is too expensive, it is the plane which is not enough”. The little sentence of Jean-Pierre Farandou, in front of deputies, did not go unnoticed this week. The CEO of the SNCF was particularly surprised that air transport is not sufficiently taxed on ecological criteria.

An exit which quite annoyed the actors of the air. Like Augustin de Romanet, the boss of ADP Aéroports de Paris.

“I have always considered in life that when the neighbor’s plate filled up, it did not empty mine, he confided this Thursday at the microphone of BFM Business. So I am a friend of the development of all services . “

While the boss of the SNCF hollow out the impact on the climate of air transport, that of ADP opposes its counterpart arguments of the same ilk.

“I think the train needs to develop and you will never see me questioning the artificialization of the railways, the glyphosate used by the people who maintain the railways, you will never see me question the subsidies that the railway sector receives, never “, lists Augustin de Romanet.

53% tax on a Paris-Nice

According to the boss of ADP, disputes over modes of transport would be unproductive.

“I believe that everyone must stay in their swimming lane to provide the best possible service and that everyone sweeps in front of their door, he assures. I do my best to sweep in front of the door of airports.”

For its part, the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (Fnam) split a press release in which it considers that “competition is also a powerful vector of quality of service and today allows at most many access to travel. “

Taking the example of a Paris-Nice plane ticket at 90 euros, she recalls that taxes are indeed present in the air.

“This concrete case illustrates the very significant weight that taxes and fees already represent in France since, in this example, they represent more than half of the total price paid by the passenger (53%)”, assures Fnam which recalls that “air transport remains a sector resolutely committed to the decarbonisation of its activities.”