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To: greenspirit who wrote (27834)	2/4/2004 6:32:38 AM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793743

If a company doesn't come to your town, there are no taxes being generated. So what? Many east German cities are dying - it's a natural thing, "creative destruction." Local towns and local people should have the freedom to work out business arrangements with corporations in the field of airline travel without some bureaucrat from London, Germany or France dictating policy to them. I was careful to mention my opposition to tax money being used to attract airlines to some remote airport. If local businesses get together - yes, they should be free how to spend their "marketing expenses." You write as if the low-fare airline market is suppressed by the EU. The reality is quite the opposite. If any of my friends or relatives book a private flight it's rare that they don't use one of the low-cost offers (like Cologne-Rome for 20 euro). These airlines have gained market share rapidly, at the expense of Deutsche Bahn (German railway), for instance. Here's a partial list of cheap operators: Air Berlin airberlin.de Deutsche BA deutscheba.de easyJet easyjet.com Germania Express gexx.de Germanwings germanwings.de Hapag-Lloyd Express hlx.com InterSky intersky.biz Ryanair ryanair.com SkyEurope skyeurope.com