"Huge" wrote in message
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"Mike" writes:

| Tony Bryer wrote:
| Alternatively one might educate the public so that they
| realise that a £19.99 tool cannot be expected to be the
| equal of a £49.99 one, let along a £179.99 one.
| Pity the EU has just done exactly the opposite wrt airfares/
| airlines.

That's not quite the same. With power tools I can buy a £20 one or a
£200
one. As a business user I want airlines to take their obligations to get
me
from A to B on time seriously but with the low cost cowboys pushing full
fair airlines off of many routes, especially those not involving
Heathrow,
one is left with little choice but to use their overcrowded flying cattle
pens.

The EU rule is probably because they've f***ed up too many EU meetings
with
people arriving late/not at all.

IME, EU bigwigs take air taxis.

Possibly. But the meetings where things actually get done involve normal
transport. And whereas one used to be able to guarantee getting to a
meeting at say 9:30 in Madrid or whatever, nowadays one needs to fly the
night before and stay in a hotel to avoid being late.