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Emirates Airlines

  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 time in Emirates history that the figures showed a loss. In 1987, Emirates bought its own flight aircraft for its fleet. In July, Emirates took delivery of its first aircraft. It was an Airbus A310. In the same year, Emirates got permission to start services to London, Istanbul, Frankfurt, and Mali. In 1988, Emirates extended its service to Damascus and, in 1989, to Singapore, Manila, and Bangkok. In 1992, Emirates placed orders for seven Boeing 777s and launched service to Manchester. In 1998, Emirates Sky Cargo was launched. In 2000, the first order,World biggest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380, was from Emirates. In 2005, Emirates ordered 42 Boeing 777 aircraft. Emirates is the airline with the largest number of B777 aircraft in the world today,and A380 also.Emirates Airlines, which operates the most services and carries the most passengers, was selected as the world's number one airline. 

Emirates has taken home three awards at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2022, including World’s Best Economy Class, World’s Best Economy Class Catering, and, for the 17th consecutive time,World’s Best Inflight Entertainment.


MUHAMMED SAJIL T

S3 B.Com Taxation

Al Shifa College of Arts and Science 

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