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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
So how much of a lever is the bi-lateral agreement, if thats revoked or ended does that pretty much end their use of any NA Canadian hubs?
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Right now the UAE is allowed 6x weekly into Canada. Etihad Airlines (based out of Abu Dhabi) took 3 of those, then Emirates (Dubai based) jumped on the remaining 3 and they are both utilizing them out of YYZ (Toronto).
When originally offered the 6x weekly service Emirates said no they wanted more, that was when big brother Etihad stepped in and took 3, and Emirates then grabbed the remaining.
If we killed the bilateral they are out, we could also exercise our right to deny overflight of our airspace. This would absolutely destroy most of their flights into the USA. We got in a spat with Russia a couple of years ago, and they denied us overflights of Russian airspace, once we did the same to them it choked off all their flights to the USA so they quickly made up.