Are some overseas airlines getting an unfair leg up on US carriers? Depends who you ask.
Go ahead and call them the friendly skies, but there’s a war waging in the airline industry between carriers both here in the United States and around the globe. The fight is over something called Open Skies Agreements, which help to set rules that create a free market for the companies that fly people and things all over the world. But the true impact of the fight depends on which side you ask.