Highlandman,
Your response excludes any thoughts about the benefits to the French public of increased competition... They would benefit from more CHOICE and LOWER fares. Can you understand that?
Sure, French bureaucrats want to protect French jobs - but at the expense of public choice and competition that would likely force the French airlines to IMPROVE themselves to compete better...
Your argument is ambiguous at best.
We don't care about your problems with Ryanair employment - we care about increasing competition, reducing fares for the French public, and improving French airline operating costs (they would need to become leaner and more cost-competitive to compete with EasyJet, GO, Buzz or Ryanair)...
But the French apparently don't care about the potential for lower fares for the public at large... Meanwhile watch for the French airlines (especially AirLib) to become more indebted and continue to grow their bloated employee lists - the more things change, the more they stay the SAME.......
. .Cheers