A330pilot,
Surely you're not foolish enough to believe that the only market for Aircraft seats for a particular country is the transportation of its own citizens? Did you intentionally forget tourism or did you conveniently forget in order to boost your weak argument in the hope that no-one else would notice? We're not that thick mate!
Perhaps the below cutting from Wikipedia will open your narrow mindedness?:
Tourism is an important industry in New Zealand, contributing NZ$15 billion (or 9%) of the country's gross domestic product in 2010.[1]
It is also New Zealand's largest export industry, with about 2.4 million international tourists visiting per year (as of September 2009),[2] providing 18% of the country's export earnings in 2010.[1]
Auckland Airport handled over eleven million passengers in 2004.
Many international tourists also spend time in Christchurch, Queenstown, Rotorua, and Wellington.
Overall, tourism supports some 180,000 full-time equivalent jobs (10% of the New Zealand workforce), with half directly related to tourism.[1]
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A330,
You may want to take note of the interesting figure that 11 million people used Auckland Airport in 2004 (that will be considerably more now). By your own calculations, EK only holds around 5% of seating capacity, so are you arguing that an Airline that has 5% of the share of seats in and out of a country will be the downfall of the local airline industry? If so, that says far more about the crap business model of ANZ et al than it ever could about EK stealing trade!!
Will you please concede in the face of the overwhelming evidence above, that having MORE international flights to and from a country is a good thing for trade, tourism and industry? Or will you and your blinkered kind continue to refute the irrefutable?
