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globalexpress
4. I can't believe you're comparing a company's uniform policy to brutal dictators not allowing their citizens basic human rights. When a ME thug doesn't allow his "subjects" the legal right to unionize for example, that's a competitive advantage. Just like you say US Airlines have an unfair advantage with US bankruptcy law, the big ME 3 have an unfair advantage when their self-appointed Kings oppress those who work in their country by not giving them a right to unionize. And since labor costs are an airline's largest cost or second largest cost in a business where margins are normally extremely narrow, that is a huge advantage to ME carriers.
Again showing complete and total ignorance born from prejudice and racism.
Honestly posts like that show one of the reasons that the ME3 are the target of this campaign. They are an easy target exactly because of the general feeling against Islam and the Middle East these days. Not that I am defending Islam, just that the tactic is classic in so many ways. This while South American airlines, who pay on average 1/3 to 1/2 of what the ME3 pay, go unnoticed as they create huge alliances and airlines groups of their own.
Just for the record. Workers in the Middle East are generally there because they make far more money than they can in their home countries; because the QOL is much better than their home countries; and because it is a much safer environment to raise children.
UAE citizens, the ones you say don't have basic human rights, are given unbelievable amounts of time off and have incredible opportunities for education paid for by their employer. That doesn't really meet the definition of "oppressed by a brutal dictator".
Typhoonpilot