| Quoting kl911 (Reply 10): No sane person wants to fly to / connect in CDG. |
CDG has been pretty much improved over the past years:
- CDG-1 has been refurbished, although the terminal structure remains a tough bottleneck, with no segregagtion of non-Schengen arrivals and departures, but the merger of the 3-4 non Schengen sattelites now eyed by ADP will doubtless enhance the experience
- CDG-2A and C have nicely been refurbished, and that AC common building has added a lot of room and facilities
- CDG-2B and D are now under refurbishment, to the same standards of 2A and 2C
- CDG-2E and 2F nos offer much improved facilities (S3 and S4), and a much smoother connecting experience
The only subterminal lagging behind is 2G, agreed.
| Quoting kl911 (Reply 10): Ryanair will not have a French base with current employment laws. |
I don ' t think FR can claim to be an employer, as Attendants are contracted from Crewlink and Pilots are self-employed...
| Quoting JoeCanuck (Reply 14): Subsidies are a different matter. I have no idea how they work for anybody...and I'm not sure that SuperAccountant could ever sort it out. |
The key issue are all those endless, interest-free loans from their shareholder states...
| Quoting N1120A (Reply 17): KL is generally a more profitable operation, and always has been better run. |
Not always, as KL was down after 9/11, and was dragging a huge debt when merging with AF...
KL also has to struggle to remain competitive, and even more as it prides itself for not setting the trend through innovation
| Quoting dank (Reply 19): Corporate tax rate in France is 33.3%; in the Netherlands 25%. Don't kid yourself that they slide profits into the Netherlands to reduce their burden. Thats a 25% reduction in tax burden. |
The ETR of KL in the Netherlands is very likely to be much lower than 25%...