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By Martin Evans THERE is a rather depressing theme developing for this column. In February of this year I wrote that UK airlines would have a difficult year with consumer spending slowing and costs dominated by record fuel prices. In June I wrote of the demise of Silverjet, a premium class transatlantic carrier. I concluded by saying that "we expect some more carriers to fail". Now we have lost Zoom, another transatlantic operator. The two airlines, and earlier failures MAX...