In fact, in total, these two trips will have cost around 501,000 euros, the equivalent of 31 years of minimum wage according to the calculations of the daily Le Point. To arrive at this number, the media relied on the costs per hour of flight provided by the Court of Auditors and the Elysée, as well as on the travel data for the A330 and the Falcon 7X (Editor’s note: the two presidential planes that were used).
Beyond the cost, these flights will also have cost the planet dearly… since they would represent 480 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, or 53 years of average carbon footprint for a French person. On this subject, an NGO has also pointed the finger at President Macron for having been in Qatar rather than in Montreal where COP 15 on the protection of biodiversity.