A potential merger between Emirates Airline and Qatar Airways would have made for a “formidable” force in the global aviation market but regulatory opposition from European authorities mean it “will never happen”, the Dubai-based carrier's president Tim Clark was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the Arab Air Carrier Association’s AGM in Algeria earlier this month, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker revealed that prior to joining the oneworld aviation alliance it had been his ambition to create a “mega-carrier” by merging the Doha-based carrier with Dubai’s Emirates Airline, the largest carrier in the world in terms of international passenger traffic.
“Unfortunately, that dream of mine did not come true, but we then got invited to join oneworld,” Al Baker said.
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