Gulf carriers are giving European airlines a run for their money. PLUS: UAE President’s new Chelsea mansion gets a mention

It’s a relatively slow day for the UAE in the foreign press, with just two stories worth noting:

UAE’s state-backed airlines Emirates and Etihad are among Middle Eastern carriers to emerge as “very attractive” competitors to European airlines, offering cheaper fares and routing through their hub airports, as European airlines “lose connectivity” to Asia due to the slow reopening of Asian economies post-pandemic and restrictions on flying over Russian airspace, the Financial Times says.

President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s snag of a GBP 65 mn (USD 81.7 mn) mansion in Chelsea, London, got the spotlight treatment in Bloomberg.