"Thinking outside the box"
Alex Salmond and the Skottish Parliament to vote 15m pounds sterling (not "Scots"; perish the thought !) to be used for pump priming of new routes in accordance with Brussels's hyper tough regulations.
Everyone then happy:
i) Scottish travelling public as it can now travel to Spitzbergen in mid-summer for a handful of bawbees (plus a supplement for paying the pilot, another for paying the cleaner, another for paying the tug, another for paying the window cleaner, another for paying the snow clearer in EDI, another for....)
ii) Alex Salmond (the second greatest politician in living memory, only eclipsed by Nelson Mandela; or so says Rupert Murdoch today in the soar away Sun) can rest easy on his laurels as a member of the European Premier League of airline subsidisers. Eat your heart out Artur Mas i Gavarró
iii) MOL as he counts his hard earned bonus
iv) The bureaucrats of Brussels as they know that the use of a Ryanair plane as a flying taxi by the Transport Commissioner in an outrageously brazen illegal intrusion into the decision of the electorate of Ireland in their most recent EU referendum has not been noticed by anyone of any judicial importance
Not a single fly in the lego-political-subsidy-rich ointment !