Emirates Airline is an airline based in Dubai, UAE. It is the largest airline in the Middle East. Emirates has a fleet of over 300 aircraft, serving more than 150 cities in 80 countries across six continents. The Emirates group,which owns Emirates,employs around 1 lakh people. Emirates started its first service on October 25, 1985. The first service was from Dubai to the cities of Karachi and Bombay. This year, emirates had service to Bombay, Karachi, and Delhi. In the beginning, the Emirates fleet had a total of four aircraft. They are two Boieng 727 aircraft,the youngest of the Boieng family,given by Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid of Dubai, and two Airbus A300 aircraft on wet lease from PIA (Pakisthan International Airlines). In the first year itself, Emirates started operating profitably,carrying 260,000 lakh passengers and 10000 metric tons of cargo. In 1986, Emirates service also started in the cities of Colombo, Dhaka,Amman,and Cairo. That one year alone was the first and last ...