Airline sets five million passenger target to coincide with major anniversary
Airline Emirates has marked 30 years of operations in the UK by announcing that it is on track to carry five million passengers between the UK and Dubai in the 2017/18 financial year, making it a record year for the airline.
This is an increase on the 2016/17 total for the airline, which saw 4.92 million passengers fly between the UK and Dubai during the last financial year.
The airline launched its first flight to Gatwick on July 6, 1987. Operated by an Airbus A310, Emirates carried just 87,000 passengers in its first year of U... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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