Originally Posted by
KelvinD
I heard a news report today saying that the money promised by the government to help Flybe out was not going to be paid now. The reason given was that this aid was to be in the form of relief on APD and someone has just realised that any adjustments, suspensions etc to APD is not allowed due to EU rules. Would that be the same EU that we are led to believe we no longer belong to?
If it wasn't so sad, it would have been funny that you try to blame this one on the EU.
I guess it has nothing to do with both IAG and Ryanair objecting to financial support?
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