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Emirates, the world's fourth-largest airline by scheduled revenue passenger-kilometers flown and number of international passengers carried, was founded in 1985 [1] by the royal family of Dubai. The airline's first flight was from Dubai to Karachi, Pakistan and Mumbai, India in October of that year. Its first aircraft were provided by Pakistan ...
Emirates was founded in March 1985 with backing from Dubai's ruler, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. On 25 October 1985, Emirates operated its first flight from Dubai to Karachi and Mumbai, using the Airbus A300 B4 and the Boeing 737 both wet-leased from Pakistan International Airlines.
The airline's head office is in the Emirates Group building in Al-Garhoud, Dubai. [6] [11] The building is located on Airport Road, across from the site of the Emirates Engineering Centre built in 2007.
Al Maktoum, who sits at the helm of the world’s largest long-haul airline and helped launch it in 1985, echoed the sentiments of many other airline CEOs when it comes to expectations of Boeing.
It was in this latter role, in March 1985, that he founded Emirates Airline, [67] tasking then-head of Dnata, Maurice Flanagan, with launching a new airline to be called Emirates after a dispute with Gulf Air over Dubai's 'Open Skies' policy. The launch budget of the airline was $10 million (the amount Flanagan said he needed to launch an ...
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Flanagan was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to communities in the United Arab Emirates and to aviation, and KBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours. [11]The music centre of Dubai College, a British school in the United Arab Emirates of which Flanagan was a board member, is also named after him, as the 'Sir Maurice Flanagan Music Centre'.
The airline is the "Third oldest airline by foundation date" and the "Oldest airline in the English-speaking world". Aeronaut: March 22, 1921: January 11, 1927 Estonia: Operated the routes: Tallinn-Helsinki, Tallinn-Stockholm, Tallinn-Riga-Königsberg and Tallinn-Tartu-Viljandi-Pärnu. Stopped operations in 1927 due to financial problems. Aerotarg