MEA has a monopoly over the Lebanese sky, as opposed to European "Open Sky" policy, well, from what i understand, it means than they control the prices, no matter what.
Recently the ex-minister of tourism was very aggressive over their pricing policy and said that it's in part because of them if Lebanon has so few tourists (lol), and threaten to apply an old decree voted by an old cabinet of ministers were an open sky would be applied, something like that anyway.
Here is the
article in french, it resumes everything.
