{"id":346016,"date":"2026-01-10T06:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/slots-for-dollars-the-real-reason-canada-opened-the-skies-to-the-uae\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:41:46","slug":"slots-for-dollars-the-real-reason-canada-opened-the-skies-to-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346016","title":{"rendered":"Slots For Dollars? The Real Reason Canada Opened The Skies To The UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian airlines are officially on notice after the country&#8217;s government loosened restrictions on the set number of flights permitted to and from the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"32947\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\"  >Middle East<\/a><\/span> to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182703\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/canada\/\"  >Canada<\/a><\/span>. In <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259419\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ottawa\/\"  >Ottawa<\/a><\/span>, the federal government has &#8216;opened the skies&#8217; to more competition from Middle Eastern airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased competition and improved onboard experiences: What the future holds for air travel between Canada and the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[940,396,476,713,919,996,2962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-canada","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-canada","category-emirates","category-etihad-airways","category-united-arab-emirates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346017,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346016\/revisions\/346017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}