Emirates fights for Canada – Chapter 3
When it comes to the UAE-Canada Air Transport Agreement, the UAE have been playing with fire for some time, making bellicose statements threatening to close Camp Mirage. Well, it’s happened. The kill order has come down and Canadian forces are poised to exit the UAE and set up shop elsewhere.
It’s not totally clear how...
The fight for Africa
Hundreds of years ago, the powers of the world fought over Africa and carved its landmass into many pieces which they proceeded to profit from for long stretches of time. Today, a similar fight is on the cards, only this time the would be conquerors are airlines fighting for the skies. Needless to say the...
The 8 best airline tails in the air today
Like anything else of an aesthetic slant, the like and dislike of tail designs is largely subjective. I have compiled the following list of tails as my current top ten with a few accompanying words. They are in no particular order. Air Tahiti Nui – A flower floating in water; hardly a conventional idea for...
Emirates ups A380 order to 90 with more orders to come
Emirates A380 coming into YYZ by BriYYZ on Flickr Let’s be honest 58 A380s was never going to be enough for Dubai’s ambitions. In case you think I’m being sarcastic, I’m not. Once you get over the shock of such a massive order and start to think about it, 58 is not that many. Currently...
Emirates fights for Canada – Chapter 2
Last year I blogged about Emirates' displeasure at not being given unlimited access to the Canadian market. In the time that has passed their stance has not changed. They remain adamant that they are being treated unfairly and that there are adequate reasons for Transport Canada to comply with their requests demands for greater access....
Airlines serving six continents from one hub
Qatar Airways will begin service to South America offering a daily Doha - São Paulo - Buenos Aires service to be operated with a 77L. They will become only the third airline ever to offer non-stop service to six continents from a single hub. The current members of the Six Continent Club are South African...
Emirates fights for Canada
Emirates 777 at YUL. Photograph courtesy of Youri Thonon – Contrails Photography It must be ever so inconvenient for Emirates to have to deal with Transport Canada in trying to secure additional landing rights to Canadian airports. At its home base in Dubai most anything the carrier needs is quickly afforded to it by...
EK now world’s largest 777 operator
Today Emirates surpassed Singapore Airlines as the world’s largest Boeing 777 operator. A 78th 777 (A6-ECS) joined the fleet today. Number 78 is a 300ER variant.
