Okay I read it. In a nutshell it said the Gulf carriers now own the routes to India and southeast Asia. They have also taken a little of our traffic that would have connected with our JV partners in Europe to southeast asia.
Delta lost one flight per day to India. I don't like it and I am all for the fight to get that route back. And more importantly make sure that they do not get rights to our country from other than their home country. But again barring them bribing their way into rights that are not written into open skies agreements, where else are they going to poach traffic?
Again JMHO
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globalexpress
This paper just came out:
http://www.openandfairskies.com/wp-c...-Traffic-1.pdf
Take a read and see if you change your mind about the damage these highly subsidized ME airlines are causing and could cause US airlines.
I totally got a boner when they started talking about regression analysis in the paper I linked above. Was that wrong?
The Etihad paper was.....well....lame for the same reasons mentioned above. The US government handed 36 Billion bucks to the US airlines when they went through restructuring? I must have missed that one. The US Government gave the US airlines 30 Billion through the PBGC program? The PBGC program isn't even funded by the US governement. Does the Risk Advisory Group, who wrote the analysis for Etihad, even have access to Google? Wait. Probably not since the government in the countries in question get to choose what their "loyal subjects" see and not see on the internet and in the media. The poor guys at Risk Advisory probably tried to Google "PBGC" and got a handsome picture and bio of one the sheikhs instead.