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They technically don't. However, they do:
-Have a hub at DXB which charges extremely low landing fees. These are the same landing fees that everyone else pays, but when all of your flights depart from DXB, it represents a cost savings.
-Don't pay tax on oil (probably the same as all other carriers, but again, if every flight departs from DXB, huge cost savings)
-Lower oil cost because the oil doesn't have to move very far from where it is extracted to where it is fueled into planes
-Don't pay business tax
-Can pay lower salaries because EK employees aren't subject to income tax
-Get very low cost financing from the UAE/US (Ex-Im bank) governments.
Reading this you should just let your government know about this!
-Lower the landing fees on the major US airports, especially those which still understuffed with atc
-lower the taxes on oil products. They are abviously to high compared with the rest of the world.
-Move all businesses to Delaware to avoid business taxes -ups, you already did this
-Dont charge employees income tax
-Buy more aircraft from Airbus by using european backed up bank loans.
It seems that most of your problems could be solved easily instead always blaming the "others".
How can you blame them for "paying less for kerosine" ( every other airline in Dubai pays the same for kerosine except for the volume discounts )? How about russian or iranian airlines which pay lees for oil in their home markets? How is this "unfair"?