Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
He has a very strong argument in my opinion, however all that will happen is the taxpayer footing the bill eventually. The Treasury paying out £10Ms to a company already making several billion in profit isn’t going to look great optically.
And that is a good point. Why SHOULD the general tax payer subsidise the commercial activities of providers of air transport?
I suspect the answer to this question lies in the revenue raised by taxation on these activities, by analogy with road fund licence and fuel duty BUT a) none of these revenue streams are hypothecated for the spend and b) the sorts of sums being claimed in compensation are beyond anything already budgeted for and so WOULD fall on the public purse.