The write-offs alone exceed the amount JAL has earmarked to buy 45 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners, he says, whereas ANA has to forkout the money to buy 55 of them.
If Western countries have to reduce emissions and forkout extensive sums of money and they do not, they stand to gain a competitive advantage - and dragging up the past as often as possible helps this agenda.
He and wife Paula, who were waiting for a ferry across the Camel estuary to Padstow, said second homeowners spent more money locally than other holidaymakers because they did not have to forkout for rent.