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Nothing to do with the planes themselves. Basically Ryanair business practice forcing competitors to up their game resulted in an ultra-competitive slim margin
by DaedPsyker 6y ago
Nothing to do with the planes themselves. Basically Ryanair business practice forcing competitors to up their game resulted in an ultra-competitive slim margin industry.
- iso1210 6y agoOn top of that many smaller cities actually paid airlines to fly to their muicipal airport. The idea that Brest would pay €2000 a day to fly 200 passengers from London to Brest, and those passengers would spend far more than €10 each in the local economy.
- bpodgursky 6y agoThere's no particular reason they couldn't have paid for a subsidized train route to get the same volume of visitors.
- Leherenn 6y agoConvenience? There's the Channel to cross so you have to go through Paris and Dover. A <1h flight becomes a 7+h train ride.
- bpodgursky 6y agoOf course, but that's just an argument for why planes will win, not why an airport-specific tourism subsidy helped planes win.