By Patrick MERVENT, a lieutenant-colonel in the gendarmerie citizen reserve working with the air transport gendarmerie

"The eco-friendly movement had already targeted the aerial sector with « plane bashing » (shame of travelling with airplane due to carbon footprint). Airline companies from all over the world are now sustainably weakened by the coronavirus pandemic, whether financially or in their operations. This situation often required state support in order to avoid bankruptcy without any recovery guarantee within a short period. For instance, Italian company Alitalia received 3 billion euros in state-guaranteed loans, the latter becoming the company’s owner. (...)"

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