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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport

Low cost airlines complain about lack of reaction to state aid received by some national carriers

Brussels, 18/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA) has called on the European Commission to carry out “full and swift investigations” into state aid granted to national carriers SAS (Sweden), Malev (Malta), Spanair (Spain), and CSA (Czech Republic). ELFAA, which is flagging up this anomaly to the Commission for the second time since November, says that the governments concerned have paid out a total of €1.16 billion to these airlines. Recently,...

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