Subsidies may take the form of direct payments to unprofitable services, but also indirect subsidies are used.

The operator for unprofitable services usually rents trains from the county transport authority or a special state organisation.

Problems such as supplier-induced demand, witholding of potentially important but unprofitable services, etc.

The flights ended in October after Trillium determined it was an unprofitable service.

A fatality in 1877 provided a reason to discontinue what was an unprofitable service.

Another concern is that price-cutting would make long-distance service unprofitable for all, discouraging further investment.

Subsidies may take the form of direct payments for financially unprofitable services, but support may also include indirect subsidies.

With Pandora's current business model, the fees which SoundExchange levy would amount to 70 percent of its revenue, making the service unprofitable.

But, clearly as well, there are going to be unprofitable services and the question is how we can ensure that service levels are maintained and, indeed, improved.

In 1949, the railroad sought to curtail some of its more unprofitable services.