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American has no qualms with Qatar despite subsidy row: CEO

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American Airlines has no hard feelings towards its partner Qatar Airways despite allegations of billions of dollars in government subsidies, says American chairman and chief executive Doug Parker.

“From our perspective it is about government policy, it’s about government-to-government [and] it’s not about individual airlines,” he says in an interview with Flightglobal. “We have no qualms with those airlines or those individuals.”

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