The air travel community is hoping for financial support from the governments where major airlines are based in the form of subsidies, research grants and tax benefits.

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Collectively, these grants and subsidies finance a large portion of American higher education.

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The on-going transformation in microfinance means grants and subsidies are a thing of the past and commercial sources of funding will continue to be the major source of funding.

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