Seriously, this is exactly where I was going with this. And if I might be permitted to connect a few more dots, this is seriously a competitivity issue.

Anybody remember this from last week?

Now, remember that what Migeru says about what happened to regional carriers in France after the TGV roll-out is largely true, and it stands to reason that if one can get to Barca or Rome of Franfurt from Paris in 5 hours, this will put some more pressure on other carriers. And then, open skies agreement with US is clearly advantageous to the EU and EU carriers, and less so to US carriers.

The important thing is what lacordaire is alluding to, above. Which is clearly a case where competition, and I mean this in a larger sense, is not served by competing firms whose interests are simply expressed by the state entities (like db) to further the sorts of parochial interests that weaken Europe.

The answer is less market liberalisation, not more.

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