WorldTraveler
Corn Field
- Dec 5, 2003
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- #61
first, robbed, the industry wasn't deregulated when Pan Am and TWA were large in Europe.
second, perhaps you can find evidence otherwise but no European or US carrier was being subsidized to the point of distorting the market relative to the others.
the issue once again is that Qatar and the UAE are subsidizing their airlines in order to build a transit and tourism base that is far beyond the size of the local market something that has never occurred in the history of commercial aviation.
and those including FedEx who want to argue why they should benefit at the expense of the passenger carriers should consider the reaction if a Mexican company which was subsidized by the government opened up a hub in Mexico 3X the size of MEM and used it to offer deeply discounted small package and freight services throughout the Americas
that is what the ME3 have done and there are trade mechanisms to correct that type of problem in other industries; the US3 are simply asking the US government to develop mechanisms in the passenger airline industry to prevent the ME3 from growing until they comply with int'l trade agreements regarding free trade and to roll back their capacity until they do.
second, perhaps you can find evidence otherwise but no European or US carrier was being subsidized to the point of distorting the market relative to the others.
the issue once again is that Qatar and the UAE are subsidizing their airlines in order to build a transit and tourism base that is far beyond the size of the local market something that has never occurred in the history of commercial aviation.
and those including FedEx who want to argue why they should benefit at the expense of the passenger carriers should consider the reaction if a Mexican company which was subsidized by the government opened up a hub in Mexico 3X the size of MEM and used it to offer deeply discounted small package and freight services throughout the Americas
that is what the ME3 have done and there are trade mechanisms to correct that type of problem in other industries; the US3 are simply asking the US government to develop mechanisms in the passenger airline industry to prevent the ME3 from growing until they comply with int'l trade agreements regarding free trade and to roll back their capacity until they do.
