Canadian Gov’t says the UAE may have 2600 seats per week each way in/out of Canada
That’s more than 135,000 seats per year.
Canadian Gov’t says there are 27,000 Canadians living in the UAE.
Plenty more seats than Emirates may need. Why that would mean that each and every Canadian could go home to Canada, and return, fractionally more than 2.5 times per year.
We all know Emirates, as an airline, doesn’t even give its pilots their contractually stated leave of 42 days per year. They only give 30, and only a maximum of 21 in a row.
By reducing the leave allocation, and limiting consecutive days, they force their employees to travel an average of at least one other time per year, at their own cost… most use: Emirates Airline. This is an example of how Emirates Airline treats its own professional pilots. One can’t fart in this city without the ‘company’ getting a piece of the action.
Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer at Dubai Airports Co., fired back Wednesday at critics in Canada and Europe, where Air France is leading a group of European and U.S. carriers to voice concerns about expansion-minded Emirates receiving low-interest aircraft financing and other subsidies.“The only thing Dubai is guilty of is providing an environment that actually supports aviation,” Mr. Griffiths said in a statement. “Most governments around the world treat aviation as a pariah, choking its growth with costly, misdirected regulation, instead of adopting policies that recognize its considerable socio-economic benefits and support its sustainable growth. They then compound the problem with parasitic forms of taxation that usually flow straight out of the sector.”
Please read Mr Griffith’s statement carefully and consider the meaning behind his statement.
It doesn’t require a PhD in Reasoning to comprehend that the many “misdirected regulation[s]” are simply viewed as an impediment to Emirates getting what it wants, like a spoiled child not getting the lolly it desires. Or as it is put above: considerable socio-economic benefits
Last edited by M-rat; 1st Nov 2010 at 12:55.