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"The EU might be beginning to accept the fact that if they don't put aid into airlines in Europe, particularly in the transatlantic areas, whenever there's a pick-up in the aviation industry the only airlines left flying will be the American airlines," said Noel Dowling, a union spokesman.
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Or the airlines without massive cost bases, huge numbers of HO staff, and an attitude to the industry that isn't rooted in 1975.
If EI or anyone else, is losing money let them. All they have done in the last few weeks is sit tight and wait for the inevitable subsidy. Try cutting fares.