Ok gents lets give this a little more thought. EK are based in Dubai they currently have little problem filling planes from DXB to USA in my experiance,why put a stop in Western Europe now they do not have to ?. If you are suggesting extending current European bound flights to western hemisphere that's is a different matter, but would strongly suggest that legacy carriers who are based here with political clout will stall / block this. However being devilish would suggest a chink in the armour from a suitably "poor" EU country with no large legacy as staging post, and a LOCO feed to it may work. Turkeys do not vote for Christmas so would suggest strong opposition to let EK in on this basis, but EU appears some what fractured at the moment between N/S and E/W so maybe we will see. By the way I am a very regular EK flyer so would not mind at all if this happened, as US bound flights from northern UK very poor compared to east bound carriers !.
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Mr Mac