The president of Emirates reveals how the airline weathered the pandemic and plans to bounce back despite the unique challenges of being a massive international-only mega-airline
"The domestic and international businesses have diverged meaningfully," Vasu Raja, who heads network and route planning for American Airlines,. "Though we're increasingly more optimistic about the sustainability of domestic, international looks like a much different proposition."
With passenger number demand plummeting, Emirates quickly saw an opportunity to at least get some revenue by flying cargo, Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates, said in an interview with Business Insider. "The immediate focus of the management's attention is trying to support and place the -ERs on our passenger network, which, over the course of the last three or four months, has allowed us to introduce passengers to them where we can," Clark said. "In the early days, it was repatriation of passengers. People were caught offside out of their country of origin on holiday, or work, or whatever.
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