I see both sides to this. Pax need choice, but industries need some protections to.
Without some type of protection there will be no airline industry left in the 1st world. Without that any T&Cs in places like EK will quickly decline. The only people that prosper are the office dwellers. The main losers are the crews, engineers etc.
There really is a fine line. Airlines need to compete, grow markets, update products and not rely on government handouts. But they must also be given some way of protecting themselves from the likes of EK, where a lot costs can not be competed with.
The answer is way above my pay grade.
The Don