As we probably all know by now,there's a huge battle between the "colossal three" US carriers and the "colossal three" Gulf carriers. For whatever reason I'm on the email list for press releases from the US airlines' lobbying group. Most of the releases are entirely nonsensical. Like that time they shamed any company which does trade with the Gulf carriers, conveniently omitting that American Airlines has codesharing agreements with both Etihad and Qatar.
Delta will be discontinuing their flights between Atlanta and Dubai next year, or which has generated quite an tantalizing debate between Delta and Emirates.
It's worth noting that while Delta is discontinuing their Atlanta to Dubai flight,Air Canada actually just launched flights between Toronto and Dubai this week, clearly seeing some demand for travel between North America and the UAE.
Canada has long restricted routes between the UAE and Canada, and as Emirates and Etihad are each just allowed to operate 3x weekly flights to Toronto. Obviously they'd like access to more frequencies and cities in Canada,like Vancouver.
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Source: boardingarea.com