The thorny issue of overcapacity was brought up again and again by speakers on the first day of Marketforce and the IEA’s The Future of Air Transport conference held in London yesterday. Emirates was the target for most of this attack but Gary Chapman, president, group services & Dnata, defended the airline’s strategy well. “We haven’t taken market share, we have created markets where they didn’t exist before,” he said during a panel discussion. In response to accusations that Emirates order for 90 A380s will flood the market with excess capacity it can ill afford, Chapman advised those airlines complaining about

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