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Old Aug 26, 2010 | 4:57 am
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Hannibal Lecter
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Originally Posted by BlackBerryAddict
There is an interesting article on travelweekly.com today, explaining why FR wasn't allowed to fly to the UK - basically the UK tour operators put their foot down, and said they'd withdraw from Cyprus if FR was allowed the cheap deal to the UK. I'm not a lawyer - how that works with free competition I don't know, but basically the tour operators seem to have prevented FR from entering their market.
I wouldn't call it "free competition" when there are subsidies
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