Originally Posted by
FD1971
I cannot provide you with a source from the mainstream media that Etihad is using the same tricks emploed by many other Governments or companies over the last decades.
As pointed out before, the NE3 are pretty good combining the accumulated knowledge from the expats working for them.
One hint. Please never state to an industry expert that you really believe that Etihad is making money from their operations...
So not one of these industry experts will go on record of saying this?
Not one?
In this
http://www.economist.com/node/16271573 article from the Economist (surely they are not also being laughed at by those in the industry- or is your "several german people" group also laughing at the editor here)- the editor has actually gone back and changed the article (see their note at the bottom of the article) to say that they were incorrect on the losses of a gulf carrier.
So as long as you cannot provide a single mainstream or otherwise source, and as long as the experts from the worlds of business, management consulting, the CEOs of the airlines themselves (except Lufthansa), global leaders, and others are cited in a thread, we will have to take your word for it that you have "special information" that you can only share in the vaguest of terms and without the ability to cite not even one source. Shame really.