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Budget Bonanza; A flotilla of low-cost airlines is redrawing the economic map of Europe.
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March 13, 2006 |
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Byline: William Underhill (With Katka Krosnar in Prague, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Florence Villeminot in Paris and Kasia Gruszkowska in London)
Charleroi figures on few tourist itineraries. The slag heaps on the skyline stand as monuments to happier times when the town was a center of Belgium's iron and coal industries. These days the mines are closed and work is scarce: unemployment stands at 20 percent, twice the national average. Brussels may be just half an hour down the road, but in recent years there's been little reason to make the trip.
Until now. Today the city's modest airport--rechristened Brussels South Charleroi--is a new hub for two of ...
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