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...major routes in 2004 alone and now flies to 78 destinations in 55 countries. Last summer, Emirates began its first U.S. flights, to New York City's J.F.K. airport. The airline is already considering as many as nine U.S. destinations. "The U.S. is the final important piece," says Flanagan, whose airline also initiated flights to Lagos, Shanghai and Vienna last year. "Airlines are generally bad businesses. Emirates is different," says Damien Horth, an analyst at UBS in London. "It has been consistently profitable." Still dramatically expanding, it has more than $26 billion worth of new airplanes on order, including...
Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has come a long way. Now vice chairman and group president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Flanagan is in charge of the globe's 14th largest and fifth-most-profitable airline. Under his watch, the once tiny, government-owned Emirates Airlines has been transformed, growing more than 20% a year...
...major routes in 2004 alone and now flies to 78 destinations in 55 countries. Last summer, Emirates began its first U.S. flights, to New York City's J.F.K. airport. The airline is already considering as many as nine U.S. destinations. "The U.S. is the final important piece," says Flanagan, whose airline also initiated flights to Lagos, Shanghai and Vienna last year. "Airlines are generally bad businesses. Emirates is different," says Damien Horth, an analyst at UBS in London. "It has been consistently profitable." Still dramatically expanding, it has more than $26 billion worth of new airplanes on order, including...
...Flanagan knows better than most how far he?and his airline?has come in the past quarter-century. Today, he points out, Dubai is as close to the center of the world as a passenger can get. "Emirates needs only one stop to get you anywhere," says Flanagan. Of the world's top 50 airports, so far Emirates flies to 15. That's not enough for him. He intends to spend the next few years getting Emirates Airlines to take you to the rest?in style...
...thing I give [St. Lawrence head coach Paul Flanagan] and his team credit for is that they found ways to win a lot of games this year,” Sisti said. “Sometimes that’s leadership, sometimes that’s luck...