MENA airlines remain a great threat to European carriers

Middle Eastern airlines are indeed the real competition to European airlines, a fact recognised by Willie Walsh in September speech to the European Aviation Club. This new weekly email from Aviation News focuses on all of the developments in the MENA region from the past week. The ambition and growth of airlines such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar, sponsored by staunch government support poses a serious threat to the dominance of European and US airlines on long haul routes. But the African airlines are equally stepping up their expansion plans: demonstrated by the news from Ethiopian last week – broken