Originally Posted by charterguy
AFAIAK the EU is introducing these measures because our skies are being unneccesarily polluted by locos, carrying pax that should travel on coaches and trains. Locos offer artificially low fares by 'raping' secondary airports and regional governments. And when their special deals expire, they simply move on (see RYR's move from CWL to BRS). They are thus creating an unneccesary demand for air travel and and take great pride in carrying UK rejects to some of the most beautiful capitals of Europe, so they can cause havoc and throw up in the streets. The EU is sick and tired of this, and quite rightly so. Of course it wouldn't be politically correct to blame it all on the pax and MOL's arrogance, so we have to blame it on emissions. MOL, they are coming to clip your wings !!!! About time, too.
CG
You may not like LoCos but quite a few of us work for them, and needless to say, our families and children depend on their success. Your comment about pax taking the train or coach is typical of an ill informed green tree hugger. Are you sure that a coach is more fuel efficient than an a320? On what figures do you base that? As for trains, they run on electricity (or diesel!
). How do you think electricity is produced? By burning coal (thanks to the green's hysteria over nuclear power)! And you know what? CO2 emissions due to power plants accounts for the vast, vast majority of all CO2 rejected into our atmosphere. These are scientific FACTS, which of course the greens choose to ignore to make their point that air travel is bad, although the hard FACTS may say otherwise.
It seems you have a lot to learn about Low Cost travel, because although you may not like Ryanair (who could blame you for that?), it is not the only Low cost airline in Europe. eJ for instance are not guilty of 'raping' secondary airports as you quite elegantly put it. And finally, many European cities are quite happy that the 'UK rejects' are there to boost their local economy... nuff said!