It's a non-issue because the new law exempts connecting flights. All these comments about how dumb the regulators are because they overlooked connecting flights are flamboyant displays of ignorance.
Agreed! Also the fact that this regulation is only for rail commutes that can be done within 2.5 hours or less. So I can still fly from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Toulouse.
It is almost certain that shorter air routes were subsidized by government. No way it was economical. I read somewhere that many smaller airlines have gone bust.