Not so much anymore. The EU restricts state aid to the point that airlines like Sabena, which would have survived it the Belgian Government could have bailed it out, and AZ which is under going a massive restructuring cannot, survive In a message dated 9/28/2004 10:22:24 AM Central Daylight Time, clay.wardlow@xxxxxxxx writes: I may be mistaken, and please correct me if I am, but... aren't a lot of the carriers in Europe heavily subsidized by their respective governments?