Germany's federal cartel office this week criticised Lufthansa for cutting prices too sharply to below cost, it said in a battle with Germania, a much smaller carrier, on the route between Berlin and Frankfurt proper.
The food technology of Northern Europe took centuries to catch up, though an argument could be made that the tribes of Germania that Tacitus found so barbarous owed their eventual triumph to the stamina that came from cooking outdoors in a cold climate, and keeping their lungs intact.