why can some airlines stop over a country and then continue on another country? Wouldn’t the airline “steal” a share of the passengers from the host country?
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example: KLM goes from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and then it continues to Jakarta.
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They aren’t “stealing” passengers from the host country because the country doesn’t own those passengers.
In theory a country could refuse to let airlines from other countries land there but it would likely mean that those countries would do the same in reverse. So the original country would have a monopoly on air travel but nowhere to go.
Additionally fewer countries these days have government owned airlines, so the airline is merely another private business. As long as the country gets whatever fees and taxes it requires it doesn’t matter which airline is transporting the passengers in and out.
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