Originally Posted by
svergin
Wrong. More scare tactics. Nothing we can do about it anyway. The #1 thing we have been fighting in the last administration was NAI and ME3 and Obama approved NAI right as he was leaving office, and gave Emirates the DC-Dubai route. If Democrats were our friends, why didn't they dot anything when they were in power? Let's see what Trump does. At least he was willing to meet with the airline CEOs unlike the last guy.
Others have already pointed out your lack of knowledge of the history and backstories of the events you claim are examples of Democratic indifference towards airlines and unions.
Regarding DC-Dubai, the awarding of the government flying to JetBlue/Emirates followed the law/regulations. The law/regulations that the majors had previously lobbied to have adjusted to include their codeshare/alliance partners. It was a competitive bid and Jetblue was selected. It had a cheaper airfare and its overall application was scored higher then UAL's. Don't you want your government to spend your tax dollars wisely?
Here is the Protest denial:
U.S. GAO - United Airlines, Inc.
How come no one complains that UAL won the award for ATL-FRA? UAL certainly doesn't fly that route with its own metal, it is flown on Lufthansa.
https://cpsearch.fas.gsa.gov/cpsearc...r=Search+FY+17
And while losing the GSA award on that route hurt the bottom line of UAL, I'm not convinced it wouldn't have dropped it anyways. From a war time, monopoly route that made $$$ to a route where the war ended and thus government travel was down and now you also had three other carriers flying that market (the ME3).