Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You miss the only salient point. We don’t have open skies with China. If you want to participate in open skies to the EU you can’t be state owned. I understand that the oil boom will come to a end and the ME3 are the hope for a relevant industry for the region but they still don’t qualify for open skies.
.....but the Chinese carriers are capacity dumping in the Pacific and the U.S. majors are pulling out of markets as a result. DAL no longer serves Taipei or Bangkok, for example. They outsource that flying to their JV or code share state owned partners.