Qatar Airways
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Trump Gets Tough on the Middle East Airlines… Or Possibly Not
If you saw the news earlier this week that President Trump had addressed the gulf carrier subsidy issue, you could be forgiven…
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3 Links I Love: Qatar’s Unwelcome Investment, AirAsia X Won’t Go Long, The Onion Tells the Truth
This week’s featured link: American’s SEC Filing About Qatar’s Investment Interest – EDGAR American has received word that Qatar is interested in…
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Fun with Photos of Qatar’s Impressive New QSuite Business Class
Qatar Airways has long been promising that it would roll-out a world-changing, amazing, industry-leading new business class. After much delay, that day…
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3 Links I Love: Middle East Fight Continues, Qatar Goes Italian, Lumexis Goodbye
This week’s featured link: The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that…
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3 Links I Love: Avianca for Sale, Qatar’s A380 Gate Problem, Delta’s Back in ExpertFlyer
This week’s featured link: United Continental, Delta Air Lines possible bidders for Avianca: WSJ – Reuters Ok, so we don’t know much…
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Airlines are Racing to Add Ultra Long Haul Flights, But Not Always For Good Reasons
It used to be that if you wanted to go between continents, chances are you’d need a stop or two along the…
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3 Links I Love: Qatar Gets Testy, United’s Suckiness, LATAMerican
Qatar Airways threat to quit Oneworld alliance – The National In another so-called “landmark” press conference with little substance, Qatar CEO Akbar…
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Why Delta Thinks Its New Investment, a Subsidized China Eastern, is Not the Same as a Subsidized Middle East Airline
When Delta announced that it would take a 3.55 percent stake in China Eastern, I received a bunch of emails saying effectively…
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Two Hours of Fighting About the Middle East Carriers, and I Still Can’t Get Excited
At last week’s CAPA conference, the highlight was supposed to be the panel debate between US and Middle East carriers over whether…
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US Carriers Continue to Hammer on Middle East Subsidies While Europe Fractures
I’m sure you’ve all just been dying to get an update on the US-Middle East airline fight, right? There’s little to discuss…
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The Argument That US Carriers Should Stop Complaining About Middle East Carriers and Compete on Product Is Garbage
The fight between the US carriers and the Middle East carriers is just starting to ramp up, but people are quickly taking…
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The US Carriers Show Their Case Against Middle East Carriers, But Will Anyone Care?
It was just a couple weeks ago that I wrote about how American, Delta, and United have banded together to request that…