"At this point we will abide by the wishes of the Emirates, and... we will be leaving the base."
The UAE wanted more landing rights in Canada for its national carriers, Emirates and Etihad, and threatened to force Canada to leave Camp Mirage if Ottawa did not approve an increase.
The airlines have six flights a week to Toronto, carrying passengers from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but say that with 27,000 Canadians living in the UAE, there is a need for more service.
Widely unreported is that Emirates and Etihad wanted 50 more slots per week and Canadian suspicians were that these slots would not be used in a proper manner, but merely to funnel FRA or other European traffic (can't be arsed to look them up) airports into Canada and claim cabbotage rights to fly onwards on smaller aircraft than the A380's to further NA destinations. As they have done elsewhere in the world.
We don't do that in our aviation industry.... i would cut off all their slots...who needs them anyway? 26,000 Canadians in those countries should move their asses out. Bilaterals are just that, mostly equality.