Uuuuugh

>not true capitalism

>why would Germany be allowed to rescue theirs.
Probably because all the countries are going to be trying to safe theirs?

Isn't that against EU competition policy?

are you giving handouts to your companies?

>tfw British Airways will try to get EU rescue package arguing it's technically a Spanish company registered in Madrid

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he's not wrong though, capitalism has nothing to do with government handouts

bailouts are immoral. they're a burden on taxpayers

>Alitalia finally about to go bankrupt as EU starts investigating whether the bizarre "loans" from the Italian states are actually a form of state aid
>corona happens and suddenly state aids to airlines are legal across EU
>Alitalia lives once again

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No, not if measures taken aren't done to increase competitiveness. Often for shit like this there are workarounds like for example signing up the workforce with the unemployment agency, which wouldn't even be illegal in the first place
Not directly but you can bet your ass all the unemployed stewards will be signed up with the unemployment office

BASED

There would still be a significant difference between only Italy trying to keep their airliner afloat using state aid before Corona and all of Europe combined trying to keep everything going using taxpayers funds due to Corona.

Italy will threaten to drag out the legislative process and kill AFKLM and Lufthansa in the meanwhile if EC tries to exclude airlines that were already on death's door before corona like Alitalia.

>Italian gov lets the coronavirus spread in their country
>thousands die
>Europe panics and authorizes state aids to airlines
>mfw the plan was to save Alitalia all along

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Even if all the Euro airlines die out, Alitalia will remain alive due to the protection of the Church as the "Popes airline".

state aid should be illegal

fuck Alitalia seriously
hate that shitty company

Nooo, I love them

I work for Delta and all our retard Skyteam partners are literally dieing. Alitalia, Korean, AFKLM, Virgin Atlantic. We're like the only ones that can weather this storm.

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That would be amazing.

It does seem to happen every single time during crisis in every single capitalist country tho ahahaha really makes u think

Virgin Atlantic just announced it needs £7.5bn bailout, or it will have to declare bankruptcy soon. It's particularly badly hit due to the fact that it is heavily reliant on long distance transatlantic routes, and Trump's UK travel ban just killed its main income stream.

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time to buy stock before the bailouts arrive

>Delta

is it better than United and AA?
American airlines are top trash as far as I've experienced, even ours are better lol

noooo

they can't get away with this

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no
Remember:

Buy High
Sell low

Well, Azul had stopped all flights to Portugal si9nce last week.

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really?
I have a flight booked to Germany, hope it won't be cancelled.

Not with Azul though so hope it'll be fine.

oh right

valor.globo.com/empresas/noticia/2020/03/09/coronavirus-azul-suspende-voos-para-portugal-arabia-saudita-suspende-viagens-a-europa.ghtml

All the time. We call it the Nordic model.

Shit is gonna suck hard.

>>tfw British Airways will try to get EU rescue package arguing it's technically a Spanish company registered in Madrid
wait what

BA and Iberia merged and created the "International Airlines Group".

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>iberia actually became an anglo company
Why didn't I know this, when did this happen?
Fuck me not flying on it again.

Like in 2011.
A quarter of that company is in the hands of Qatar airlines iirc.
The same happened with Air France and KLM; smaller airlines are simply bought up with like Lufthansa buying the national flag-carriers Austrian Airlines or Swiss International.

Yeah they probably provide the best service out of our 3 legacy carriers. I don’t think United’s international flights are too bad and American has come a long way in service but they still suck.

Fuck airlines

It's a cuckbitch of Qatar Airways now, and the most profitable company of IAG is a low cost one called Vueling. There's another one former austrian, also lowcost , called Level. The rest is Iberia Cargo and Aer Lingus.

Btw, B*itish Airways has already cryed out and call Yürop to gib moneys. Too bad Brussels already sentenced like a year ago that IAG is not european but a haram mutt monstrosity and depending on the exact terms of Brexit it will be allowed, or not, to maintain the flying rights in Europe.

So if Iberia die that means Air Europa will be the new flag carrier (?)
What about UK (?) Virgin is having a very turbulent time.

at least they have national healthcare and really cheap education

lol

iberia isn't going anywhere and air europa a shit. I've flown with both and had a better experience with the former despite it being slightly pricier

they better fucking bail them out, no way I'm flying some low cost carrier for the rest of my lfie after this is over

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>He still wants to fly sas after what they did

Stop crying, I care about the product not what some retard PR team thought would sell.

user... Their higher ups doubled down on the ad. Remember? Norwegian is also far better short haul.

I have no idea what you're talking about but all ceo communication is also written by marketing teams and will defend said marketers no matter what.

Yes I know, it was retarded and I'm not gonna dispute that.

Idk man, I disagree, the leg room is better on SAS IME. Also I live in a shithole where the local airport only has a SAS connection anyway.

basically they did this "WHITE PEOPLE HAVE NO CULTURE HUE HUE IT'S ALL IMPORTED" thing, you know because that = "traveling is good" or something.

It's written, but the statement is there. They doubled down.

I really couldn't care less what it was. I'm just pointing out that it's pointless getting mad that CEOs didn't shit on the marketing teams they're responsible for. They don't give a shit as long as things are profitable and the board is happy, it's easier to say online nazis bate you than do a 180 on your own campaign.

Mm, also once a campaign is launched it's bought and paid for so to speak, rolling it back is expensive as shit

They literally came out with a statement. The marketing team didn't. The top dogs doubled down saying it was a troll campaign funded by Russia. They LITERALLY said this.
No marketing team gets to speak on their higher up's behalf without those higher ups giving them a green light.