Thursday 21 November 2013

Emirates’ Tim Clark: We cannot split the hub | GulfNews.com

Emirates’ Tim Clark: We cannot split the hub | GulfNews.com:

"With Emirates having announced a $99 billion order at this year’s Dubai Airshow, its President, Tim Clark, has a lot of seats to fill, a lot of destinations to touch and most importantly, continue the fight with global markets for additional rights. In an exclusive interview with Gulf News, Clark lines out Emirates’ tough fight for more flying rights into markets like India, Europe and Canada besides discussing the airline’s plans for Dubai World’s Central’s Al Maktoum International airport.
Gulf News: Will you look to jointly negotiate plane orders in the future as well, like you did with Qatar Airways for the Boeing 777-X?
Tim Clark: In the area of the assessment of the Boeing 777-X, we were quite happy to work with Qatar Airways, because they asked us to. They respect us for the work that we have done, not just in assessing aeroplanes but having a significant input to the design of the planes. All he [Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways] said was ‘if you can get me a spec that you are happy with, I know I will be happy with that’. And he wrote to Boeing saying whatever Emirates does, I will buy it."

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