The Economist is a reputed magazine, but one reference made in its recent article on this topic is not worth for any reputed media outlet.
http://www.economist.com/news/leader...ghts-hypocrisy
It reckoned that, since the dawn of American commercial aviation in 1918, the federal government had helped airlines in all sorts of ways, from direct subsidies to the building of airports and control towers, to the tune of $155 billion.
Even if it is paraphrasing another lobby group's statement, it should check facts and render its opinion.
At the same period airlines paid $240 Billion to aviation infrastructure trust funds.
Unlike US media outlets, there is no disclosure requirement by lot of foreign media outlets and even aviation analysts. Makes it difficult to judge without knowing how they are funded.
There is a CAPA analyst with 100% of his personal tweets are in favor of EK. How am I supposed to think he views are balanced?