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Emirates isn't shy about throwing around large piles of cash to get top billing at sporting events. And it's the TV viewers the airline is after, not the gooners at Arsenal's stadium in London hooting Rugby World Cup fans.

USA Today uses Qatar's delivery of its first Boeing Dreamliner today as an opportunity to review how the Gulf airlines established new industry standards despite being latecomers in the international skies.

The profits of the world’s largest airline stuttered last year amidst rising fuel costs and the Arab Spring, but the airline is back on its feet with 15 new routes and a hefty fleet expansion.

International competitors are intimidated by Gulf airlines on their own and continue to block their traffic rights, so one can only imagine the industry’s reaction to the merger that would have put airlines over the edge.

There's nothing wrong with negotiating from a position of strength, but Lufthansa needs to make sure its insistence on getting its house in order first doesn't make it miss the bus -- err, plane -- on tying up Gulf alliances.

With Emirates waiting for its Qantas codesharing deal to be approved, it has a bigger role to help market Australia to the world, and selfishly so.

Fliers’ minds are either thrilled with the prospect of in-air productivity or cursing Emirates for making them accessible in the one place they were forced to unplug. US flights will be stay quiet, but probably not for long.

It has less to do with the which airline is based at the airport (Etihad in Abu Dhabi and Emirates in Dubai) and more to do with Abu Dhabi’s rapidly growing tourism industry.

Emirates has reached the limits of its air capacity under current regulations and if it fails to secure more flying rights, the airline may leverage an Indian carrier to feed flights leaving from Dubai.

Oneworld is the smallest of global airline alliances so it needs to be flexible in allowing airlines like Qantas to form strategic relationships outside the group to foster growth in the long run.