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To: Elsewhere who wrote (27856)	2/4/2004 9:48:02 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793739

I see we have a fundamental perception disagreement. Ryan Air didn't take tax money from the people. It gave less than other airlines were giving. The Ryanair deal with Belgium’s regional government gave it a landing fee rate of one euro per passenger — half that set by local law. It also paid a similar discounted fee per passenger for ground services at the airport, about 40 minutes by car from Brussels. Since traffic at the airport went from virtually nothing to what is it today, I'll wager the local government has put allot more money in it's pocket then it would have had Ryan Air never chosen to fly out of there.