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It would appear that the airline industry don't like it up 'em.
Not content with demanding tax breaks on airline fuel, demanding more places to land be built for them, demanding that environmental agencies the world over look the other way when it comes to pollution, demanding that they not be included in carbon trading schemes and demanding that the poor souls who choose to spend hours trapped in their metal tubes at 30,000ft pay extra to go to the toilet, airlines are now demanding that the EU stop being...wait for it...biased against them.
Apparently this is all to do with infrastructure. While the rail industry in Europe had €318 billion spent on it in the last decade, the airline industry only had a measly €1.34 billion. This, therefore, proves that the EU is biased in favour of the railway.
Except, it doesn't. It proves that the railway needs more infrastructure - rails, stations, signalling, bridges, tunnels - whereas the airlines just need a dod of concrete to land on and a shed to "process" passengers.
Can you imagine any other industry that would cry that they'd "only" had €1.34 billion in subsidy?
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