Brief History
The Emirates Airlines is a wholly-owned company by the government of Dubai in United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is a part of a larger conglomerate, the Emirates Group which comprises companies in diverse areas such as aviation support service, hotel and tours, IT and engineering, etc. Emirates Airlines has taken advantage of the “open skies” policy of Dubai. Notable persons in the company are Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Maurice Flanagan who laid-out the business plan of the Emirates Airlines in 1984 (Bloomberg Newsweek, 2014). It was established on top of the Dubai National Air Transport Association (Dnata) which was ...