Originally Posted by
kop84
The issue DL has with funding from the government isn't that they're propping up a failing carrier or helping through a tough time.
Its billions to allow QR, EK, EY to operate with out regard to basic supply and demand or profitability.
If a foreign government wants to sink money into a business and subsidize it's costs isn't that their decision? Delta has no control over how it's competitors are spending (or receiving) their funding.
Edit: I understand it a little more now with the Open Skies agreement. So the problem is really that since the airlines are government owned, the government "agreed" to this open skies agreement and the fact that they might be subsidizing these new routes goes against that agreement. So if the airlines were owned by rich individuals who were sinking money into them and the same thing was going on, would DL have a problem with that?