One short phrase leaps out from the page:
the absence of ‘oneness’
For anyone familiar with the aviation scene in the (in their aviation industry, at least) sadly misnamed
United Arab Emirates. this phrase says it all. Every State within the Federation wants its own airline, and where the money is available to make it seem possible, every State wants to have a bigger airline than the State (in some cases, quite literally) next door. The inevitable result? - another catchphrase: market dilution, eventually to the point where no one will be able to make a profit. Not that profit seems to be a factor to some of the players involved.
And before the PC Brigade go slavering at the mouth and reply with cries of 'racism', (the common reaction to anyone who dares to criticise any country of a non white Anglo Saxon background), let me add that what's happening in the Gulf now is virtually a carbon copy of what the countries in the West did years ago by each insisting on having its own flag carrier, but at least back then, the players involved were separate - and large - nations. Here it is every state within an already very small country.