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Old 9th Mar 2018, 19:34
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As well as the recent introduction of a night flight ban, the next change will involve a total ban on refueling with passengers on-board in Warsaw Chopin Airport which will make the airport further unattractive for low cost carriers.

As per all other recent changes, the people to suffer will be the low cost carriers biting at the heals of LOT and the airline who suffers the least, again will be LOT. Maybe they will simply ban pink at the airport soon and get it over and done with.

The problem is PPL are solely looking after LOT. It's ridiculously protectionist and pretty much all the changes in Chopin in the last few years have hit LOT's biggest competitors the most and hit LOT the least - of course they will say it's a total co-incidence but we all know better than that.

There's still a stalemate at Modlin which is simply a ticking timer before it closes and coupled with PPL making life difficult for Wizz at Chopin, the end game will probably be LOTs biggest two competitors being chased out of the city since sadly the position of LOT seems to be far more important than the market as a whole.

It will be in both FR/W6 interest that Modlin survives and becomes independent of PPL, since Wizz are being chased out of Chopin right now with more and more measures being used that him them the most, and if Modlin dies then W6 will have to go to Radom which is what the end-game here for PPL is.
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