tailhookah
Just be the ball, Danny..
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2004
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It makes it easier for Etihad to lure pax away from US carriers. It's a huge piece to their global domination strategy that both Etihad and Emirates are setting out on. Those two carriers have more value in their future orders than the combined market cap of Delta, AA and UAL combined. They are being subsidized by the very governments who support (through backdoor channels) and harbor terrorist groups w/ petro dollars (for Abu Dhabi... Dubai essentially out of oil) and now US tax payer dollars by maintaining a US Customs facility over in Abu Dhabi.
Do you think they are paying for this facility? NO. We are. We are paying for US Customs officials to move and live over there, w/ families to support this... this hurts the US airline job market. I know there are preclearance facilities in BDA, Shannon and some Caribbean locales, but those benefit US and our jobs. We use those facilities.
This pre clearance facility in the ME is not helpful to our carriers... our airlines don't fly there much. But when you look at the potential flights w/ the future orders coming out of the big two ME carriers it's sickening that our US government is doing this to our tax paying job market. Say what you will dudes, this is a threat to our future... don't think it's a big deal now? Just wait for the big ME hubs to start sucking pax flow away from other areas. People will go where the cheapest and highest value tickets are. The ME hubs will pull pax away from US carriers. Not all... but the world is shrinking and it's hard to compete against cheaper labor and cheaper costs when your government is allowing you to acquire cheaper gas and labor in a tax free environment helped out by the US government w/ our tax dollars...
Tail.
Do you think they are paying for this facility? NO. We are. We are paying for US Customs officials to move and live over there, w/ families to support this... this hurts the US airline job market. I know there are preclearance facilities in BDA, Shannon and some Caribbean locales, but those benefit US and our jobs. We use those facilities.
This pre clearance facility in the ME is not helpful to our carriers... our airlines don't fly there much. But when you look at the potential flights w/ the future orders coming out of the big two ME carriers it's sickening that our US government is doing this to our tax paying job market. Say what you will dudes, this is a threat to our future... don't think it's a big deal now? Just wait for the big ME hubs to start sucking pax flow away from other areas. People will go where the cheapest and highest value tickets are. The ME hubs will pull pax away from US carriers. Not all... but the world is shrinking and it's hard to compete against cheaper labor and cheaper costs when your government is allowing you to acquire cheaper gas and labor in a tax free environment helped out by the US government w/ our tax dollars...
Tail.