Today, the Gulf states have taken control of some European airlines in order to consolidate their growing global supremacy in air transport. Qatar Airways is the biggest shareholder of the IAG Group (British Airways, Iberia and Vueling) with only 9.99% of the airlines’ share capital, Etihad is the biggest shareholder of AirBerlin (29%) and Alitalia (49%).
On the US side, an impressive report of investigation of three American majors (Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines), published in February…