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Old Nov 10, 2014, 2:02 pm
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avsecman
 
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Originally Posted by iahphx
I'm not sure how much most of you guys know about airline finance, but there seems to be something fundamentally illogical with Emirates' business plan. They -- and other Middle Eastern airlines -- seem to be able to place enormous airplanes on long thin routes where no other airline could possibly make money by providing such service. And then they spend more money per passenger on service than other airlines spend.
What I will say, as I know operational persons on the ground at EK and other Gulf Carriers, is that many of them do believe it is a financial scam of some sort. Particularly at other Gulf Carriers, there is a belief that EK is a bubble about to burst...

I am not so convinced....
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