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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...
DIED. DENNIS FLANAGAN, 85, visionary editor of Scientific American who transformed it from a prestigious but little-read journal into an influential mainstream magazine with a circulation of 600,000 and set a model for making complex scientific ideas understandable to all; of prostate cancer; in New York City...
...according to Flanagan, “most private college presidents say that we don’t have a right to give up our students’ privacy to make our graduation rates look better...
...Flanagan said the National Center’s statisticians—although “they’re great people who do great research”—lack the political clout to block other government agencies who demand access to the database...