Originally Posted by
aupilot
How dare a country protect it's own airlines and give them preferential treatment. I am pretty sure that if ATL was slot controlled and the Japanese airlines said we need more slots for expansion that Delta would be against the Japanese getting more slots. Also, who would want to fly Delta or United from Tokyo when the Asian airlines provide a far superior product.
OK, let's go with that. I say we do the same thing the Japanese are. For example, instead of Japanese carriers flying all their metal into SFO, sorry guys you only get 5 slots at SFO, the rest are for OAK. Sorry, 5 JFK slots then the rest to EWR, and on and on. I bet they would get the picture or if not that's fine too. I'm sure their SFO bound business passengers won't mind the drive from OAK. GMAB. Why do we allow ourselves to be treated this way? I guess the lack of a National Airline Policy supported by our gov't??