Lack of market incentives isn't the only reason SNCF tickets are so expensive. A large part is that airline tickets are cheaper because airlines nickel and dime

Lack of market incentives isn't the only reason SNCF tickets are so expensive. A large part is that airline tickets are cheaper because airlines nickel and dime costumers while underpaying staff (for example, only paying them for time in the air when they spend time working on the ground). SNCF also technically operates at a loss. Despite posting 2.4B euros of profit in 2022, they only paid for 3B of their 10B investments, the rest paid by the state. Regardless, this legislation is not about promoting state-backed trains, it is about that air travel is an ecological disaster especially when the train is available. The only gripe i have with it is that some of these trips are currently more expensive via train than via air, which sucks for the consumers. People making these trips by plane often are not consumers though, they are corporations. In france, nobody in the bottom 60% of income would even consider taking the plane for pretty much any of the routes being cancelled. Some routes make sense (for example, Lyon -> Bordeaux still requires going through paris by train) but these are more than 2h30, so will still be operating.