GT,
I guess when AA found out EK was charging AA employees "twice the industry approved fee" AA basically said your not going to do that to our employees. The travel agreement was terminated.
Originally, when the agreement was terminated, I thought it was because the merger between AA and US Airways. They had two separate reservation systems. AA/US completed the cutover to a single res system last week. I thought that AA could flip a switch to turn the agreement back on. Now I find that it was because EK was over charging other airline employees. Shame on EK. I have some AA friends that would like to visit from DFW. It's a nice non-stop instead of having to go through Europe. Its revenue for EK.
Now that the proof/truth is out in the open I would like to call out EK staff travel for over charging OAL employees.