Emirates hub busting. UK-US

[General Lee]

GL

You ask the question: "What has EK done for the US?"

It is the single largest customer for the B777 in the world. Boeing employs 175,000 with another 50,000 related.

Great for American jobs

fv

Along with using the ExIm Bank, undercutting US Airlines. That bank is used by "poor" countries to buy big purchases. Is the UAE a "poor" country? Would Emirates only have bought Airbus? You know, France and Germany still restrict Emirates and other Gulf carriers from unlimited frequencies at any city in those countries. No Airbus backlash apparently. Even without the financing discount, I bet EK would have bought 777s, and not used money allocated for "poor" countries.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[climbhappy]

Oh so it's okay for NWA (Delta now) and United to fly form Tokyo NRT to just about every major city in Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai, Bangkok, list goes on) because Japan lost the war, but Emirates wanting to fly from Europe to the USA would be wrong? How about we pull our pilots out from the Japan to Asian markets before we start going off on Emirates pilots that are soon going to fly from Europe to the USA.[/QUOTe

yeah mutha flucker yeah

 

[flyboyike]

There was a time when nobody thought Toyota or Honda (and much more recently Hyundai) would ever be a threat, because they made tiny little cars with tiny little engines. Now Hyundai offers cars with more than 400hp.

Just like some people seem to think that EK is ultimately not a threat because they pick "odd" city pairs, which they do, but I fear that's just a start.

 

[General Lee]

There was a time when nobody thought Toyota or Honda (and much more recently Hyundai) would ever be a threat, because they made tiny little cars with tiny little engines. Now Hyundai offers cars with more than 400hp.

Just like some people seem to think that EK is ultimately not a threat because they pick "odd" city pairs, which they do, but I fear that's just a start.

You have to look at airport sizes and gate availability. But, in Europe they have spread fear through all the "legacies" like Lufthansa and BA because they can take pax away through Dubai and onto SE Asia, Australia, and India/Pakistan. Protectionism is showing up in many countries because of them, and their unlimited check books. A lot depends on who is in office and where. For us in the States, local Congressmen and Senators can help defend against the Gulf PAC.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[jonjuan]

For us in the States, local Congressmen and Senators can help defend against the Gulf PAC.


Bye Bye---General Lee

They can also back whomever butter their bread, dummy.

 

[climbhappy]

They can also back whomever butter their bread, dummy.

are you sure it isn't "whoever butters their bread" dummy?

 

[Denizen]

Yay! Another nail in the coffin of this once-great profession. And American pilots on this site are happily cheering on its demise.

The days of the one great profession are so far in the rear view as to be almost invisible. If the great profession ever existed, it only existed for a small few who had the right timing, everyone else ended up at YIP. Pilots like to think themselves special, as most fungible widgets do, but the "glory days" are gone. Surely you see this, the buggy whip maker raging against the on coming storm of progress.

 

[GogglesPisano]

The days of the one great profession are so far in the rear view as to be almost invisible. If the great profession ever existed, it only existed for a small few who had the right timing, everyone else ended up at YIP. Pilots like to think themselves special, as most fungible widgets do, but the "glory days" are gone. Surely you see this, the buggy whip maker raging against the on coming storm of progress.

Plenty of legacy pilots in the US still have a comfortable lifestyle -- and they didn't have to move to a 120-degree sheikdom as an ex-pat to get it.

 

[Green]

why do you give a sh#t if some US pilots choose to live in another country and fly planes? Are you advocating closing the borders? Get a grip man...

 

[General Lee]

They can also back whomever butter their bread, dummy.

And not get re-elected in their district? You are a complete idiot. I said "local" Congressmen and Senators. If enough people in one area are affected, their local representative will get involved. You are stooooopid.


Bye Bye---General Lee