Pardon my interruption, but is the proposed hand-out going to be restricted to the North Atlantic Barons (who were in self generated trouble long before the 11th of September) or will it include the Bucket and Spade specialists( who were running efficiently and profitably until the down-turn)?
When it was mainly just the charter market that was suffering (Gulf War) I didn't hear BA or the laughing pullover suggest that a subsidy could be given to help them out.
...and so Air Europe folded. The employees were told that it was market forces in operation and that nothing could be done.
As Sir Michael Bishop infers: You can't have one law for BA and another for the rest of the industry. No one wants to see BA or Virgin fold, but thats life and there will be plenty of new carriers waiting to take over their slots such as BMI and Blue Fox.