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Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky?
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Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky?

It flies the fanciest product on the biggest planes on the longest routes. There might not be much more room to soar

Matthew Campbell
Bloomberg Businessweek , 2017
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Dubai-based airline Emirates wants to offer its passengers only the best: the newest airplanes, the highest degree of comfort, the fastest connection times and the longest flight routes. But Emirates’s path toward continued expansion may soon face a dead end. Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Matthew Campbell charts Emirates’s rise to prominence and explores why shifts toward more protectionist trade policies, competition from other airlines and technological developments like the advent of “lighter, fuel-efficient jets” could curb its future growth. getAbstract recommends this article to airline industry professionals and political trendwatchers.

Take-Aways

  • In 1985, United Arab Emirates (UAE) ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed al-Maktoum and his son started Emirates airline to help make Dubai a “hub for business and tourism.”
  • Emirates not only benefits from Dubai’s central geographic location, but it also pays no taxes, never has to deal with labor disputes and can run all day, every day.
  • Lobbyists for US-based airlines argue that the subsidies Emirates receives from the UAE, combined with the so-called Open Skies Agreements, allow Emirates to undercut competitors.

About the Author

Matthew Campbell is a reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering big business, geopolitics and economics.

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