Originally Posted by
PilotFrog
I don't think the ME carriers will ever have a US base. Anyone based here would then have the right to unionize which they don't in the ME, and that threat will keep the bases away.
It isn't that they will have a US base. What they will do is enable pilots to begin and end their trips in the US while being based in Dubai. Its called split rotation or reverse rotation.
For the layman, it looks and feels like US basing.