Originally Posted by
F15Cricket
Huh? I work for a U.S. airline.
And if you don't consider a tax break a subsidy, then all the ME3 have to do to make you happy is give their airlines huge tax breaks that your company won't get ... Like landing fees, for instance?
And you are proving my point, that you cannot argue intelligently about this when you say "it's only chump change." To YOUR airline, maybe, but ask all your company's competitors who don't get that tax break.
They can have - and probably already do have - all the landing fee tax breaks they want in DXB. WhoGAS? We go there once a day, so that ain't gonna break us. Hopefully we will be able to respond in kind and tax the hell out of them as well. But that is a straw man argument anyway, and you know it. And we made 4 billion last year, so for those mathematically challenged, yeah, $43 million is chump change. It will not be very long before that and all the other tax advantages we received in BK are gone anyway, so that will be a moot point. And guess what. We won't get ExIm taxpayer subsidized loans to buy American products, so I guess we will continue to buy Airbus as much as I hate that thought, but the me3 will continue to get those breaks and have their governments continue their lying cheating ways as well. Glad you work for an American company, although you surely don't seem to have any clue radar as to the real threat to YOUR job.
Edit: And trust me, you really don't want to go through the process required to get that tax break. Get down on your knees and thank God that you haven't been there. It is really naïve on your part to think the tax break is a good thing. I only wish that process on the me airlines, but it isn't likely it will happen there any time soon.