Emirates gets cold shoulder from Germany
May 20, 2011 | 11:44 am
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Emirates gets cold shoulder from Germany
May 20 (Reuters) - Germany's transport ministry is giving Emirates, the cold shoulder by refusing to hold talks on granting the Dubai-based airline rights to land in Berlin, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Friday.
"There are no negotiations," daily Handelsblatt cited a German government source as saying.
Emirates has been aggressively expanding its route network, provoking fears that Gulf-based superjumbos will draw traffic from European carriers' hubs.
Read further: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74J06720110520
And more http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...70G01R20110117
Seems like Lufthansa lobbying to block EK from extending and flying from ore destinations in Germany!
"There are no negotiations," daily Handelsblatt cited a German government source as saying.
Emirates has been aggressively expanding its route network, provoking fears that Gulf-based superjumbos will draw traffic from European carriers' hubs.
Read further: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74J06720110520
And more http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...70G01R20110117
Seems like Lufthansa lobbying to block EK from extending and flying from ore destinations in Germany!
May 21, 2011 | 1:58 am
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Maybe LH should re-think this move then...
Lufthansa puts Airbus A380 on Singapore-Frankfurt
LH have always had a cry about EK. Yet they seem to leave their problems with capacity to certain destinations blowing in the wind...
Lufthansa puts Airbus A380 on Singapore-Frankfurt
LH have always had a cry about EK. Yet they seem to leave their problems with capacity to certain destinations blowing in the wind...
May 21, 2011 | 4:49 am
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May 21, 2011 | 6:56 am
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Typical backward governmental corporatist approach.
For consumers, nothing good comes from Germany's government being under the sway of LH like this.
I'd welcome increased liberalization of international air travel such that we'd get a lot more competition sooner than later.
For consumers, nothing good comes from Germany's government being under the sway of LH like this.
I'd welcome increased liberalization of international air travel such that we'd get a lot more competition sooner than later.
May 22, 2011 | 3:45 pm
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I wonder if Berlin is really a huge market - for instance, QR has been flying to Berlin for years, yet they are still just deploying 1 narrow-gauaged (daily I think), unlike FRA or MUC where they can expand to more than once daily (on a wide-gauged). Even Air Berlin, with Berlin as its hub, has to have significant operations from MUC (not sure if they have a similar scale our of FRA).
Viewing from this perspective, the barring may be to protect a medium market from unhealthy competition.
Viewing from this perspective, the barring may be to protect a medium market from unhealthy competition.
May 27, 2011 | 10:32 pm
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Typical backward governmental corporatist approach.
For consumers, nothing good comes from Germany's government being under the sway of LH like this.
I'd welcome increased liberalization of international air travel such that we'd get a lot more competition sooner than later.
For consumers, nothing good comes from Germany's government being under the sway of LH like this.
I'd welcome increased liberalization of international air travel such that we'd get a lot more competition sooner than later.