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The world's airlines will have to be "flexible" to deal with the consequences of the commercial war between United States and China ] a scenario that could affect the sector and lead to changes in the networks, a senior executive of Emirates Airlines told Reuters on Friday.
The United States and China began charging reciprocal tariffs on their $ 34 billion worth of imports and Beijing accuses Washington of unleashing "the biggest trade war " of Economic History
"As an airline, you must always be flexible, you must be fluid in what you do," said Hubert Frach, senior vice president of business operations for Emirates for America and Europe after an event in the Chilean capital
"If a market shows a weakness, or work you try to find new market segments, or medium and long term, you reallocate your fleet and change (…) your network. "
The executive, visiting the South American country for the first of the route that will connect Santiago to Dubai via Sao Paulo acknowledged that it was still too early to estimate the The impact of the conflicts between the two great world powers, although he pointed out that these could also present "opportunities".
"If that affects, then we will have to see, because there is always another opportunity in another place. And that's how we drive elsewhere. "
Emirates, which has dozens of flights connecting China's cities with destinations in the West, will compete on the Santiago-Sao Paulo route, one of the most demanded in South America , mainly with the regional giant LATAM Airlines and the Colombian Avianca .
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