Taken from Vacation Smarter:
The row between the big 3 airlines in the US (American, Delta & United) and the Big 3 Middle East Carriers (Etihad, Emirates & Qatar) has been dragging on for months. The US carriers (US3) want the American government to take action against the Middle East carriers (ME3) for what they believe are breaches of the “Open Skies” agreement.
Put simply the US3 claim that the ME3 are government subsidised entities and therefore have an unfair advantage. An advantage that they have used to the detriment of the US airlines.
I made my views on this argument pretty clear in this post here so I won’t go into just how ridiculous the US airlines are being…but suffice it to say that my point of view hasn’t changed.
Up until yesterday, I believe the US government had only received formal submissions on the Open Skies debate from the US airlines but, yesterday, Etihad submitted it’s reply:
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