Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Sadly we have labor laws in the US. How many flight attendants over 50 have the Middle East carriers hired? How many over 40? In addition airlines that have to fly for a profit can never compete on service with airlines that don't. If you can't understand why that is then I suggest you think about it more.
What you also omit is while the middle east carriers have a right to operate with giant subsidies, they don't have the right to open skies agreements in that situation. No one is asking for anything more then upholding the existing agreements.
If the Middle East carriers want to prove the giant subsidies are false then they need only open their books to audits. I am willing to bet they never agree to that!
The governments of the Middle East big three could care less if their state owned airlines currently make a dime. They are being managed, run and expanded to provide a political relevance and power base for when the oil runs out. Nothing more or less.
Thats the bottom line that people like TP don't get. They signed an agreement but they don't want to play by the rules. Time to play by the rules you agreed to ME3. You can spout superior service, geographic location, hot F/A's all you want but it's all irrelevant. All that matters at the end of the day is that the ME3 is in major violation of the open skies agreement which they signed and enough is enough.