Matt,

Style is one thing, but misrepresentation is another. Are you saying
that this author regularly lies in print?


No. I'm saying that he looks at the facts in the most sensationalistic
way. For example, I'm convinced the fees quoted for services at that
British airport exist. I'm also convinced there are ways around those
fees, as, for example, the free weather service terminal at the field
that someone mentioned. If the situation is like that, you can tally up
the maximum of fees you could incur by behaving in the most expensive
way - or you can say: yeah, but most pilots walk a hundred yards to that
free terminal and save whatever percentage of those high fees.

The fact remains that flying in Europe is way more expensive through
(among other things) ridiculous fees here and there. But if you want to
put numbers to that, often there are ways to save if you make the
effort.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)