Originally Posted by
TonyC
It's funny how you didn't mention Ex-Im financed Boeings flying passengers to and from U.S. cities, even though the list is long. That's a lot of U.S. pilot jobs.
How do U.S. pilot jobs get lost when the U.S. majors never served the city pairs?
When was the last time a U.S. carrier served:
Karachi
Islamabad
Peshawar
Lahore
Ahmedabad
Cochin
Trivandrum
Calicut
Calcutta
Dar Es Salam
Nairobi
Addis Ababa
or any of a long list of other places?
U.S. carriers fly people from the USA to: Europe, South America, Asia or within the USA. Do Emirates or any of the Middle Eastern carriers do that?
If anything the argument should be made by the European carriers. It was more them who served those passengers from the USA via their European hubs to those types of places.
If anything the publicity of Emirates and the others has caused more travel to those areas than existed before they became known. Ten years ago neither UAL nor DAL served Dubai, now they both do and their flights are very full. How did that cause the loss of U.S. pilot jobs?
What routes have U.S. carriers had to pull out of because of competition from Emirates, Qatar, or Etihad? Honest question because I can't think of any, can you?
TP