United Airlines President Expects U.S. Action Against Gulf Carriers Someday
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This Open Skies debate never goes away, does it? So far, the Trump administration hasn't treated it much differently than the Obama administration, at least publicly. We'll have to see whether it eventually takes a tougher stance.
The U.S. government eventually will "do the right thing" and take action against three Middle Eastern airlines flooding the market with cheap fares, but no changes are imminent, United Airlines President Scott Kirby said Tuesday at an aviation conference in Las Vegas.
"Our political system in the United States is messy and often frustrating, but the great thing about this country is at the end of the day, we do the right thing," Kirby said at the Boyd Group's International Aviation Forecast Summit in Las Vegas. "This is so clearly the right thing. I don't know when or exactly how it will happen but I believe that we will get to a world where we get fair competition."
Through a trade group they fund, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United allege the three largest Gul
