Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
Well the EK problem is solved by opening LHR, SYD, JFK bases. However they will never do that so I guess they're going to have a crewing problem along with everybody else.
People keep mentioning this, as if it would be a normal and expected thing for Emirates to do. Are there other airlines which maintain crew bases outside their home country? I can't think of any other than Atlas and their now closed Stansted base. Aside from Europe, where things are in a grey zone somewhere in between "We are separate, sovereign countries" and "We're all one big happy country now" and aside from carriers who have contract crews provided by third party agencies, having a crew base outside your country seems a fairly rare situation.