Originally Posted by Travel Fever
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.
As I said before, their prices are not ridiculously cheap. Suppose they offered a $1 JFK-DXB-PER fare. This fare would only be available on limited flights / dates etc and almost no-one would be able to use it. EK will then more than make up for it with their expensive J class fares (and just look at how many people they cram in J vs other airlines) etc
Originally Posted by Travel Fever
Why would other countries close doors on them? There are plenty of government owned airlines the world over flying to capitailistic countries.
If EK is getting a free ride, countries won't want to allow EK to fly there because it will harm the airlines flying there because they won't be able to compete with EK. An example is in Austrailia. Qantas constantly accuses EK of getting help, and they also accuse EK of flooding the trans-tasman market making it impossible to compete with them.
Cheers