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Originally Posted by wabpilot
And our airlines aren't? Lets see, 90% of airport runway and taxiway costs are paid by the Federal treasury, 100% of the airway system costs are paid for by the federal treasury. Weather, federal treasury. ATC, federal treasury. Security, federal treasury. 10% of runway and taxiway costs are paid by state and local governments. 100% of highway connections to the terminals are paid for by local and state governments. The terminals are paid for by localities, but they do charge the airlines rent.
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I mean subsidized as in they can operate even when losing money. The French national airline (Air France?) gets money directly from the government on top of all those subsidized fees that you mentioned. We subsidize our airlines too if they're about to go bankrupt. But it takes an act of Congress to get that through.
The realities of the new global economy is catching up with our old corporations. GM and Ford just bought out the contract of tens of thousands of union workers. Hopefully this is just a transitional period for our antiquated work rules to modernize.