The History of Emirates Airline in Dubai

Sir Tim Clark: There was a group of about ten of us. Sheikh Ahmed had just been made the Chairman. Maurice Flanagan was the Managing Director and eight or nine of us. We started with a clean sheet of paper. Government said they wanted an airline. They set the rules of the game with regards to what the airline was to look like, and they gave us ten million dollars. And since that, they have given us nothing else. The business plan, the model that we had, still sits in the bottom drawer of my desk here. Was written out in hand. And it had ten points. And each of those points, apart from two of them, are still holding good today. And I think, it’s been the essence of our success. The simplicity of our model. The scalability of our model. And the determination, and the focus to get the job done.
Keywords: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Emirates Airlines, Dnata, Flight Operations, 1985, Aircraft, Leased, First Flight of Emirates, Karachi, Cabin Crew, PIA Training Center, Karachi Airport, Team, Professionalism, Aviation, Aerospace
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