You can debate endlessly about local subsidies, political situations and events that create imbalances, regional rights and cultures and so forth.
It’s futile.
If it’s to their advantage, everyone yells for non-interference into internal affairs, if it’s to their disadvantage, everyone cries wolf and points fingers like juveniles.
The abysmal humans rights situation, or its absence, in the ME is so blatantly obvious, that we have to assume that it’s widely accepted by the “civilised” world, or else they would not continue normal trade and political relations.
Institutions like the WTO, Fair Trade or Open Skies treaties are but fig leaves for the mighty corporations, banks and corrupt government entities. To call on the earlier for fair play, being part of the latter, exposes anyone as a bigot liar.
The only situation Anderson could criticise, and by that be taken seriously because it’s his domain, is when carriers fly into the USA with either equipment that is not airworthy to US standards, due to negligence of the carrier or its regulator, or if their personnel is underqualified or overfatigued compared with minimal US standards.
That not only represents a safety hazard over US skies, but can rightfully be called an unfair advantage for such carriers.
But, ooooops, we all know the big US bosses themselves would loooove to go that low with maintenance and training standards and dream wet dreams of being able to screw their employees equally.