From the Edmonton Journal:
(Kind of funny how this one went so smoothly our "friends" in the U.A.E. could learn from the Qatar Government how to negotiate in good faith)
Qatar, Canada reach aviation agreement
By Matthew Fisher, Postmedia News November 12, 2010
Canada and Qatar have quietly signed an aviation agreement that will allow Qatar Airways to fly three passenger flights and three cargo flights a week to and from the Gulf sheikdom.
Talks were successfully concluded on Oct. 25 after only three days of negotiation, according to Qatari news media.
The quick agreement with Qatar was in sharp contrast to a dispute between Ottawa and the United Arab Emirates over flights to and from Canada.
It caused the UAE to kick the Canadian military out of Camp Mirage, a key logistical base in Dubai that had been used for nine years to support the war in Afghanistan.
Before talks broke down last month, Canada and the UAE had haggled for five years over greater access to Canadian airports for Emirate Airlines and Etihad Airways -- an expansion that was strongly opposed by Air Canada and Transport Canada. Air carriers in Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands also have strongly objected to the rapid expansion of flights to Europe by Gulf carriers.
Canada had not publicized the new air agreement with Qatar, perhaps fearing potential further fallout from its escalating dispute with the UAE.
Newspapers in the UAE have not published any details of the air agreement between Canada and Qatar although media there usually cover the aviation industry very closely.
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