I like how you make it sound like the airlines faults. Depegging from the greenback or at least revaluing the current peg with the greenback would be the way to go. But with the GCC planning on a common currency/market (as modelled after the EU), this makes things far more complicated, simply because 'union' doesn't necessarily mean 'unity'....kinda like throwing a pair of cats over the clothesline with their tails tied together.. you will have a union there but no unity.