Originally Posted by Typhoonpilot

Instead of thinking conspiracy theory how about thinking it is a well run airline. Emirates consistently has an 80% system wide load factor and is profitable even with their high growth rate. They do that by having a good product and flight connections that work for many travelers.

It would be nice if the U.S. carriers and their alliance partners would compete against Emirates and the other foreign airlines. They just can't on some routes due to geographic limitations. On others they need to better coordinate the consistency of the product offering and flight timings.

For example on a PTY to PVG routing a traveler will soon be able to go PTY-DXB-PVG with a 2-4 hour connection and only 2 sectors. The offerings via U.S. carriers are usually 3 flights and upwards of 11 hour connections between flights (and that would require a U.S. transit Visa). Via Europe isn't a whole lot better, but you can find some 2 sector offerings with between 5 and 9 hour connection times.


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