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A European Commission rule says carriers must operate 80% of their allocated slot for at least 80% of the time so 19-year-old Kai Forsyth got to fly from London to Florida with only the pilots and flight crew onboard the flight. European carriers are urging the European Union to alter so-called "use it or lose it" regulations forcing airlines to continue flying empty or near-empty flights. Belgium's federal mobility minister described the current rules as "economic, ecologic and socially nonsense."
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That must be why I flew to Finland and back last fall in enormous Airbus planes so empty that every passenger had three seats to themselves. We all got to lie down and sleep for several hours. It was glorious.
ReplyDeleteIf I caught one of these flights I'd feel like I'd died and gone to heaven. Lucky you!
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