Originally Posted by
matthandy
Point 1, agree, but is it really likely that the majority of the passengers will be based in the UAE? I doubt it highly. It's not as if EK have limited capacity to and from DXB is it? So why affect the majority to appease the minority?
Point 2, agree again, but we'll probably never know. If so, poor show from QF if you ask me, and why won't QF just say that? I think we all know why.
No the majority of passengers won't in Dubai be based in UAE but they will be based in South Asia (think Pakistan, Bangladesh, and 1/4 India's population); look at timing of South Asian EK flights into Dubai and you can see why there will be a large upflift of Halal food requiring passengers ex Dubai and into Dubai ex London. So it makes an awful lot of commercial sense, for QF to code share EK flights ex Dubai all of which are Halal.