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Old 10-30-2020, 06:07 AM
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You actually need a place to land when you get there. Many EU nations - according to the IATA - are not providing their airports with the funds necessary to sustain them during this economic downturn.

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Over here airlines and aviation are considered key economic infrastructure.

Maybe the euros think of them more like the coal industry?
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Over here airlines and aviation are considered key economic infrastructure.

Maybe the euros think of them more like the coal industry?
Having lived in Germany, air travel In most of Europe was not a huge thing. The countries are often almost postage stamp-sized. On three day weekends it wasn’t uncommon for MWR to offer bus tours, leaving Friday night and getting back Sunday evening. Seven countries in three days. I’ve been in Lichtenstein when there wasn’t a parking place in the entire country, the whole 62 square miles of it. Don’t know where they would put an airport if they wanted one. I think they do have one helipad though...
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Old 10-30-2020, 09:11 AM
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Much better train transit system for inter europe travel. Not as many airports needed.
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Old 10-30-2020, 09:23 AM
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Much better train transit system for inter europe travel. Not as many airports needed.
Which with postage stamp size countries is perfectly adequate.

We have two STATES bigger than France.

Four bigger than Germany.

Forty-two states bigger than Belgium.

New Mexico has several counties bigger than the Netherlands
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Europe is like a bunch of states, which are countries, in terms of size. How many of these airports have commercial air service? How many are within a hour’s drive of another airport?
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Which with postage stamp size countries is perfectly adequate.

We have two STATES bigger than France.

Four bigger than Germany.

Forty-two states bigger than Belgium.

New Mexico has several counties bigger than the Netherlands
In fairness, France does have more cowards. So there is that
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Over here airlines and aviation are considered key economic infrastructure.

Maybe the euros think of them more like the coal industry?
No, the airports are privatized in Europe (they might have a 50 year lease or something). We run them publicly here. Considering the respective politics you'd think that situation would be reversed.

"Letting airports go bankrupt" in Europe just means letting the private companies that manage the airports put themselves through the financial reorganization process rather than bail a private company out with public funds.

Here is an article advocating for the same thing here (in a liberal publication no less!)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/sell-airports/615331/
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No, the airports are privatized in Europe (they might have a 50 year lease or something). We run them publicly here. Considering the respective politics you'd think that situation would be reversed.

"Letting airports go bankrupt" in Europe just means letting the private companies that manage the airports put themselves through the financial reorganization process rather than bail a private company out with public funds.

Here is an article advocating for the same thing here (in a liberal publication no less!)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...rports/615331/

This^

I’m no expert in airports, but it’s not like they will let their airports shut down and no one can land there. They’ll figure out a way to reorganize or even nationalize some airports.


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In fairness, France does have more cowards. So there is that
To be fairrrrrrrr
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