“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.”
Nice of Mr. Griffiths to admit that Emirates Airlines is not hobbled by those things, thereby giving them an advantage over airlines that are. That leaves individual countries a choice. Either implement a national environment as equally friendly as Emirates enjoys in Dubai, or protect their own airlines from foreign carriers they cannot compete with on a cost basis due to their own national policies.
Either way, Emirates and the Dubai government think they should have carte blanche around the world, and that is simply not going to happen. They might in fact have to rethink all those airplanes they have on order.