Re: UAE & CANADA heading towards Cold War!
This is not an ant fight, and least threatening is arguable. This is a move by a country to reduce competition. This is quite big in the airline world.
Air Canada, and Star Alliance carriers, are not doing well in the competition to Asia, particularly South Asia. They want to aggregate all their traffic through Frankfurt and other European hubs. Moreover, particularly for South Asia, the service by these carriers sucks and is on old equipment.
Emirates and Etihad represent a real threat to them. Their service is top notch, and they have new equipment. Particularly for South Asians, like most of us on this forum, this is very important. AC wants to reduce our options for travel because they cannot compete.