Airlines
American Airlines To End Codeshares with Qatar, Etihad
Moves stem from what U.S. carrier calls continued breaches of Open Skies pacts
An Etihad Airways Boeing 777-300ER takes off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. (Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by airlines470)
An Etihad Airways Boeing 777-300ER takes off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. (Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by airlines470)

American Airlines has notified Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways that it will not extend its codeshare partnerships with both Middle East carriers beyond their expiration dates of March 2018, American confirmed Wednesday. It sent the notifications on June 29 in protest of what it and the other major U.S. carriers characterize as illegal subsidies from the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the respective OneWorld alliance partners.