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Old Feb 3, 2017, 2:06 am
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Originally Posted by irishguy28
The timing might suggest so, but I really don't think this has anything to do with Trump.

Eithad is going through the first rough patch in its short history. For the first time ever - or at least in a long time - it has reduced the number of destinations it is flying to. It needs to take a pause and get its house in order - particularly as its own core business is now in trouble, together with the fact that it's been distracted for the last several years trying to resusciate both airberlin and Alitalia.

Of course, it is no bad thing NOT to antagonise Trump by launching new services right now. But Etihad is in uncharted territory at the moment.
Any such corporate "pledge" would be all about the new US Admin. Such things are meant to make the POTUS happy by giving him an example of protecting US companies' US workers from foreign competition. If the current POTUS tweets about this, that will reveal a lot.

But EY is under pressure too from the economics of the business and its "investments" that didn't work out so well.
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