I received a letter from one of my Senators regarding the UAE CBP. Unfortunately, he thinks it is a win for America because the Emirates will be opening up Abu Dhabi to American carriers.

I kindly wrote to him and my other Senator another letter explaining how Emirates is a threat to not only American passenger carriers, but also to Air Cargo companies should they be allowed to purchase a hundred new wide-bodies which would flood the market with a lot of extra belly freight.

More so, I explained that, as an American pilot, I went through a very painful process clearing UAE immigrations recently. Will the UAE be building pre-clearance facilities in the USA to make my entrance in and out of their country any smoother? Nope. Will they treat ALL Americans, lets say those with Israeli heritage, the same when they process through immigration because of their Arab League boycott of Israel? Nope. And worse, why should we subsidize their loans via the Export-Import bank?

I thought it was important to write them back. Perhaps you might want to reengage your local representatives as well.

/rant