EMIRATES CELEBRATES ITS 25TH BIRTHDAY

Founded on October 25, 1985, Emirates is celebrating its phenomenal 25 years of 20% year-on-year average growth. And vice-chairman Sir Maurice Flanagan has said that the airline will continue to follow the same business plan. Speaking to local media, Flanagan said that the airline would go “on and on” with “more of the same, outpacing other airlines”. Emirates was a beneficiary of Dubai’s open skies policy to open up the emirate to more competition. As the previously government-protected airline in Dubai, Gulf Air started to cut back flights to Dubai and Emirate filled in the gap in the market, with