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Emirates Airline is aiming to become the world's biggest carrier, and it will take a lot more than the global financial downturn to stop it. Hard times? Not for the Dubai-based carrier which has just put in an order with Boeing for 30 more planes worth $9.1bn, to go alongside the 204 wide-bodied craft it already owns (worth $67bn).
While the rest of the industry has spent the year wringing its hands and fretting about load factors, Emirates recently reported its 22nd year of profit was just shy of a cool billion dollars, up 416 percent on the year before.
As president, Tim Clark has played a key role in the airline's development, reporting directly to its hands-on chairman HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum - who must be the happiest man in aviation.
While the rest of the industry has spent the year wringing its hands and fretting about load factors, Emirates recently reported its 22nd year of profit was just shy of a cool billion dollars, up 416 percent on the year before.
As president, Tim Clark has played a key role in the airline's development, reporting directly to its hands-on chairman HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum - who must be the happiest man in aviation.