pk45cu

There are no tax payers in UAE, there is no tax. All the wealth is dug up from the ground and goes to a bunch of Sultans and Sheikhs who are answerable to nobody. And any ordinary citizen who objects to their spending decisions pays a price.

pk45cu

Al Baker likes to spout off, a lot.

It's easy to spout off when there are no shareholders to be answerable to, the govt who owns you makes the laws favourable to you, throws people who object in jail, bribes sports organisations to get games trights, and provides an unlimited kitty of funds to dip into whenever you feel like.

GUWonder

There are taxpayers in the UAE. Plenty of foreign bank and other property owners in the UAE pay some taxes.

Dubai, the home of EK, has less oil to extract than poor Yemen or India.

UAE has a Sultan? It has thousands of foreigners and locals with Sultan as a name, and I've met a lot of the past and present Sheikhs from the UAE; but I've never met an official Sultan from the UAE. You must know some other Dubai and UAE than myself.

If only it were that simple, but then it may not sound so different than the U.S. or UK.

QR's CEO spouted off nicely against DL's CEO, the latter of whom sees American customers as the enemy (or "criminals" in a language more familiar to the former prosecuting lawyer turned DL CEO Richard Anderson).

Sabai

^

phenobarbital

Your knowledge of the UAE has already been exposed as quite poor. ^

You want to be a freeloader- not a customer. The difference is vast, and DL is rightly doing away with the gamers.

StayingHomeIsBetter

A TOPTIP sighting...

phenobarbital

Another useless post.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure why this belongs on the DL board. Shouldn't there be a different forum for discussion of these issues?

GUWonder

Where and how? Rather ironic if that were indeed true.

The last "freebie" I got from DL was a movie ticket with no expiration date -- something DL gave me closer to a decade ago than to today -- and I've never used it. DL's gotten lots of money from me -- thousands of times more than I've paid EK, EY or QR -- so I've certainly been a DL customer and not a freeloader.

By the way, unlike with US carriers such as DL, neither of the UAE's two major carriers (EK and EY) have ever given me a freebie of any sort.

And unlike with Qatar, the UAE's senior government officials, however, have given me some freebies by paying for my meals and inviting me to catered evens like their national day celebrations in various countries. But they also know I've been critical of their government and can't be bought. DL couldn't buy me either despite paying my invoices.

readywhenyouare

Nope, it's fine right here. Anderson chose to make an ... out of himself with his ridiculous comments. Did he think the ME3 wouldn't respond?

SFO777

Emirates' new TV commercial features Jennifer Aniston with a not so subtle dig at troika service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwYr...ature=youtu.be

WhiskeyBravo

Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen this. Great!

kop84

It's a cute ad but this seems like Fogo de Chao advertising how much better their food is than Old Country Buffet. Never-mind the price difference.

cmd320

I don't understand the comparison. EK is often considerably cheaper in premium cabins than their European or American rivals.

flyerCO

I agree flew IAH-DXB-SYD in First Class and paid $10k roundtrip. DL charges 10k on business on LAX-SYD roundtrip. When you add in connections for me I only add about 6 houts and get much better service. Ive moved all international flying to EK since I found out about their pricing. (It is also great value out of multiple other countries) Add in DXB is IMO the best airport to transit and it seals the deal. Also add in EK can get me to just about any international destination without changing airlines or needing to make a second connection and it's a no-brainer.

SFO777

Earlier this year, my one way CPT-DXB-JFK EK First flight was only $3,500.