Obiaaspop,I doubt you would expect a nation to sign on to such a statement, even if it had a grain of truth in it, what is really needed is the system of regulation which was in place for years for both domestic flying and bi laterall agreements. For A good example of how this worked one only has to read the acounts of CP Airs first try at getting a transcon route in competition with TCA, the regulators wernt fooled one bit by the books and ripped their case apart, these folks proved that the set asides for maint, fleet availability and all the other things that were needed just didnt add up. A few years later CP came back to the table, well prepared and got their routes, this system also worked when it came to cabotage and landing rights around the world. Would such a system work now? Not a chance! The world airlines are now unregulated and run by bean counters, most of whoom simply lack any vision beyond the quartely reports, only Branson seems to understand that one must have a vision of a long term future for the airline and employees. Its all about ones view of the world, is an airline simply another cash machine, rather than a part of our civilised infrastructure to provide safe, sound service to all parts of the world, not just the major cities? To sum up, one does not use bully tactics or phoney claims about spin of benifits to negotiate any international agreement,this applies to both large and small nations,in the mean time for those great suporters of a totally de regulated industry, look around, is it a better place to be now than it was thirty years ago? I think not.
Last edited by clunckdriver; 6th Aug 2010 at 13:15.