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On 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
by iso1210 6y ago
On 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.