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Probably adds another hour travel time to anyone flying to Paris just to connect to an international flight.

Connecting flights won't be affected

If so, doesn't that somewhat defeat the point? A plane normally has connecting passengers and direct together. Now are they just going to fly the route half empty?

> Now are they just going to fly the route half empty?

Flying full but with half the frequency achieves the same result.

It doesn't really because connecting flights are only useful if the times match up.

So what might end up happening is people avoid connecting flights through Paris and instead take a longer route which ends up being faster and cheaper (trains are expensive).

Still adds an hour.

This will make those flight emptier, thus more expensive. It was one of the point from "The shift project".

The main international airport is keeping the intra-France flights. It's the other, regional, airport that's not.

(Although the regional airport may serve the entire EU. It does not serve the major international destinations in the US or Asia however.)

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