Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
Do you have a source for this? All official sources that I have read, explicitly state that EK received no government favours. This is different from other benefits that it receives (such as low oil prices - but this is because oil is cheap in Dubai, not because EK is getting the easy way out.) I do not have connection with the top management at EK (sadly
) but I do know some people that work for them, and I have been reassured many times that nothing happens that it off the books. If this did happen, other countries would probably close their doors to EK, and they would have nowhere to fly to.
Airlines are quite different, in that they use price discrimintation. In your situation that would mean charging 80/c per game to the people that were willing to pay a max of 80/c per game, and chargin 245/c a game to people that were willing to pay. I find EK to be more expensive that most of its competitors especially from European cities.
Cheers
In this world how can one trust what some business leader says especially the accountants of the company? Didn't Enron teach us enough? Its not like that their financials are audited by independent sources, so even less trust in them. To be able to offer such ridiculous prices for such long distances really really smells fishy. Why would other countries close doors on them? There are plenty of government owned airlines the world over flying to capitailistic countries.