Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, recently announced that it was going to expand its network by creating new destinations in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The Dubai-based airline is the largest A380 operator, and flies to almost 120 destinations in 69 countries.

The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of $12 Billion and over 50,000 employees, and the Emirates airline is rapidly expanding and an award-winning international carrier. The Emirates airline is headquartered in Dubai.

On 4 June 2012, continuing its journey to rule the skies and airline sector globally, it will launch its flight service to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Emirates will be using an Airbus A330-200 to Ho Chi Minh City and it will be the 124^th destination by the airline.

Emirates Airlines president  Tim Clark said that “Following the signing of the Air Services Memorandum of Understanding between Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates in April 2011, we have been busy planning this route and it comes at a very exciting time for the airline, as our global network continues to expand.”

The airline in its effort to broaden the network has launched a new service linking Dubai with Buenos Aries and Rio de Janerio, solidifying its presence in the Americas region. Emirates VIP delegation headed by Thierry Antinori said “This new linked service to two of the most economically vibrant cities in South America will not only boost trade ties with the UAE, but will also introduce travelers to Emirates’ route network.”

This flight will be operated by Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

Emirates is the first airline in the world using Airbus A380 service to Malaysia when recently it completed scheduled flight to Kuala Lumpur from Dubai. On this momentous occasion where-in Emirates is aggressively enlarging its network, Richard Jewsbury Senior vice president, commercial operations, far East and Australia, said “We have been eagerly awaiting the start of our Airbus A380 service to Malaysia, a country that we have been operating flights to since 1996.”

Dublin stood as the 118^th location on the list of destinations offered by Emirates commercial flight service, when on January 9 the airline added Dublin to its network. Tim Clark said “Today’s launch is a tremendous development for both Irish business and Irish Tourism.”

According to reports, the Airline is scheduled to launch commercial flight service to other international destinations such as Lusaka, Harare, Dallas and Seattle.

It is a matter of true astonishment from an economic stand point when uncertainty has cast thick, dark clouds on the global economic environment today, that an airline is expanding aggressively these days. Verily, it is a matter of Arabian miracles, indeed.

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With the demand for aircrafts growing in China, Boeing Co. has started keeping the Chinese market in mind when designing new planes. Features, such as seating arrangement, size, and fuel efficiency, are some of the things the Seattle-based aircraft company is looking over, said Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of sales and marketing for greater China and Korea for Boeing at the Aviation Expo/China 2011 in Beijing on September 21, 2011.

At the same convention, Mounir also said that Boeing predicts that China’s aircraft purchases would increase over the next 20 years to 5,000, worth about $600 billion, and that Boeing would like to capture at least half of that market share. Last year, Boeing predicted that China would increase to just over 4,300 aircrafts, worth about $480 billion.

The China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) predicted just under 4,600 passenger planes would need to be added in China in the next 20 years to keep up with passenger growth and replace aging aircraft.

“China is one of the world’s fastest growing and dynamic aviation markets, driven by the urbanization of China, the growth of its economy, and an ever increasing personal wealth,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing, at a 2010 press conference in Beijing.

Currently, Boeing holds almost 60 percent of the Chinese market, while Airbus, a European-based aircraft manufacturer, holds almost 40 percent the Chinese market. Boeing wants to sell its 737 planes to Chinese airlines, while Airbus wants to sell its A320 airplanes to the same market. The 737 aircrafts seat between 110 to 160 passengers, according to the Boeing website. The A320 seats 150 passengers, according to the Airbus website.

However, both companies face stiff competition from the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the first commercial-jet manufacturer in China. The Chinese company revealed the C919 last year. The aircraft would seat up to 190 passengers.

The plane’s first flight is scheduled for 2014, and is expected to be in service by 2016, said Chen Jin, marketing director for COMAC. Other than the C919, COMAC currently makes the ARJ21, which seats up to 90 passengers. China is currently in third place in aircraft manufacturing, behind the US and Europe. However, it is a large supplier of parts to companies that build airplanes.

“There is not a plane we build that doesn’t have parts from China in it,” said Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing, last year. Boeing, unlike Airbus, does not assemble its planes in China, but has 35 Chinese parts-suppliers, making it the largest buyer of parts in China.
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