It's time Atlasia started to put the interests of our domestic airlines first and foremost. Perhaps closing our domestic routes to foreign airlines will, how shall I put it, persuade those governments to open their domestic routes to ours.
No, not at all. I believe that closing Atlasian domestic routes would make foreign countries close their domestic routes to Atlasian airlines. That's as logical as saying "by installing large tarriff barriers we will encourage other countries to get rid of theirs".
Atlasia has a population of 300 million people, the rest of the world has over 5.7 billion people and I'm guessing a good amount of those are in need of some sort of air transport at some point during their lives. I have to say that the world market for Atlasian airlines is huge and the market in Atlasia for foreign airlines to invest in is large when compared to other countries and would thus be a major draw to international corporations.
Why can banks, which are probably just as important and asset if not more important than airlines, be owned by foreign entities, corporations and persons but not airlines? I would say that the economic pull of such companies as HSBC, ABN Amro and Royal Bank of Scotland are much more important and would have a much larger effect on the Atlasian economy than an Atlasian airline market which allows foreign carries to run domestic routes.
