Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The US domestic market at least is reasonably secure. Unlike Europe, a company in Texas cannot operate an airline with a certificate issued by deleware using the lax air safety rules of s. Carolina which allow them to import cheap labor from eastern Europe.
That is true, but the US legacy domestic routes are largely supplemented by their respective international routes. This open sky is mostly a liberalization of the current setting where trans Atlantic routes are mostly protected.
Smizek has been very vocal about his concerns that Emirates has aircraft orders extending far beyond what is required for their existing routes. The concern of subsidies has been raised.