See if Emirates and Etihad Airways get the right to fly double daily to Toronto + daily to Calgary + daily to Vancouver, the following repercussions will take place at these 3 Canadian airports which are as follows:
a) At Toronto, it will force many airlines such as KLM, British Airways to reduce capacity as well as force Air Canada to suspend one of their 4 daily TOR-LON flights. In addition, one can also bet on airlines such as PIA, Jet Airways, Austrian Airlines and Turkish Airlines to suspend their own respective flights to the city. Lastly, it will also prevent newer services being launched to the airport from interested carriers such as Egypt Air, Kingfisher Airlines, South African Airways in the long term.
b) At Calgary, it will guarantee both KLM and BA suspending their own flights. BA especially has not being doing too well out of YYC as is evident with them using a B 763ER on this route rather than a B 772ER.
c) At Vancouver, the biggest loser will be KLM however I dont see any airline suspending flights to YVR if EK enter that market segment!
d) Look at what Emirates has done to the German, Australian, London and South Africa market. They have literally raped it with excess capacity which has forced out many airlines out of those countries particularly in Australia. Compare British Airways in 1999 in the Aussie market versus now...BA at that time flew daily to PER/BNE/MEL/SYD (double daily) a total of 5 daily flights where as now they only fly to SYD!
e) In addition, it has played a key part in forcing many airlines to suspend flights in other key markets as well such as BA to CCU/DAC, LH to KHI/LHE, KLM/LX to KHI, KLM to HYD, AF to MAA, LH to MNL, BA to CMB, OS to Australia, AZ to HKG, PIA to IAH/NBO + reduce capacity to JFK, MAN!
f) Now some may argue that the same pillage has taken place at Karachi and Mumbai where EK is known as the un official national carrier of these 2 cities. The difference here is that these 2 cities desperately needed EK at a time when their own respective national carriers didnt know how to best handle the market demand situation hence EK came in and saved the day. Though if you ask me for KHI a max of triple daily and for BOM a max of 4 daily flights should have been allowed maximum.