American CEO speaks in Washington DC

In a keynote address to the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation 14th Annual Aviation Summit in Washington DC, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said again that the evidence that carriers in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates were receiving subsidies was “overwhelming” and “unprecedented.” Parker’s speech stated that there was now “overwhelming evidence that the governments of Qatar and the UAE are violating the aviation trade agreements between the US and those countries by providing enormous subsidies to Qatar Airways, Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways—subsidies in amounts that are unprecedented in the history of international trade”. “To be clear, we