Articles tagged “emirates air”

After spending heavily on buying stadium and team naming and sponsorship rights in European football world, now Emirates is making push into U.S., first through tennis.

Emirates would like to have American on its side to help feed fliers to its Dubai-feeder airports in the U.S., and a Oneworld partner like American would ease the process.

In addition to cutting British Airways out of a route into Australia, the move Dubai also cuts Singapore out of long-haul routes between Europe and Australia.

Emirates' president offers the best Skift Take: “The international airline community needs to align itself to what is going on in the 21st century, not what was going on in the back end of the 20th century.”

What does it mean for passengers? The ability to book seats and combine frequent flier points on flights by either airline, stopovers in Dubai instead of Singapore, and no more Qantas flights to Frankfurt.

Qantas, the troubled Australian airlines, has seen the writing on the wall: that Middle East is the future of global aviation hub. And competition between Emirates, Etihad & Qatar airways can only be good for the passengers everywhere.

The Middle East is becoming reconnected as flights return to cities that were previously not serviced by airlines due to violent uprisings during the Arab Spring.

We've been beating this drum here for a while now: the future of aviation is where the numbers show it is.