Emirates rejects Delta's apology over 9/11 comments
New York
AN increasingly bitter trade row between US and Gulf airlines deepened when Dubai's Emirates rejected a Delta Air Lines apology for remarks perceived as linking Gulf carriers with the Sept 11 attacks on the US in 2001.
Relations have deteriorated since a group of US airlines compiled a dossier claiming that major Gulf carriers had received US$40 billion in subsidies and urged the US government to renegotiate or scrap an Open Skies trade pact.
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