An ongoing airline feud continued to boil last week over whether three Middle East-based airlines have accepted billions of dollars in subsidies from their oil-rich governments to unfairly compete against U.S. carriers.
Emirates Airlines released a report rejecting the accusation made by American, United and Delta airlines, and fired back with the charge that the three big U.S. carriers have themselves benefited from $100 billion in government support since 2002.
The U.S. carriers have asked the Obama administration to investigate whether Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways have violated a so-called open skies agreement that allows foreign carriers access to U.