Originally Posted by
Typhoonpilot
Then immediately the Japanese government forces all DAL and UAL 5th freedom flying out of NRT to stop. The Chinese government shuts down FedEx's Guangzhou hub; the German government shuts down all 5th freedom flying from Cologne.
Ten years later SF Express of Shenzhen has taken over all UPS and FedEx package flying worldwide. FedEx flight operations is half it's current size. UPS has also reduced their international flying to only to/from USA.
Brilliant Gloopy, pure brilliance!!
Typhoonpilot
Why does Japan and China care what we do to the ME3 that are not following the current rules? Every airline in the world other than the ME carriers are following the rules. Why do they think they can just not follow the rules? Even Norwegian Air Shuttle is at least trying to follow the rules.
Besides, Japan has already basically stopped DAL's 5th freedom rights by moving to Haneda. UAL still has some access due to the Star Alliance. I have no clue how FedEx operates China, but doubt forcing the ME carriers to comply with the current treaties would change any of that.