Certainly one would hope that those subsidies, if they were implemented, would go to creating new routes, not existing routes, and to airports. However, if we would like to genuinely implement competition and a competition-based airline sector, we have to be blind to which airline is going to take a particular route. If there's a given amount of subsidy, whichever airline can operate a given route in the most profitable manner should be able to operate that route. Hopefully this would generate competition for routes that are currently not profitable.
On May 7th, 2024. See this statement in context.