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To: Elsewhere who wrote (27826)	2/4/2004 5:42:58 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793757

If those airports are anything like Alghero, no one in their right mind would fly out of there without the right subsidy package. The airport towns have correctly identified the ancillary benefits of having a serious air-carrier in your town flying to destinations around Europe. Hotels pop up out of nowhere generating jobs, transportation systems arise, and venders of all stripes come in to set up shop. Frankfort Han looked like it was in an expansion boom due largely to Ryan's presence there. Denying Ryan air the flexibility to work with local towns to promote new airports, is the same as saying no city or town can offer tax incentives for corporations to relocate there. It's a ridiculous position, obviously designed to support the fat and bloated airlines of Europe which rip consumers off. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see a French airline behind it all. Would you also be in favor of punishing every company operating in Ireland who moved there because of tax incentives? No, no, you're right. We should really make everything fair and rotate the best landing sites, parking and everything else at airports under the socialistic utopia of evening the playing field for every company.