Maurice Flanagan
Maurice Flanagan
Sir Maurice Flanagan, KBEwas a British businessman, the founding CEO of Emirates and the executive vice-chairman of The Emirates Group...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth17 November 1928
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There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.
There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.
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Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.
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Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
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It is rather a slap in the face.
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It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.
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The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.
In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.
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Can we overtake British Airways? It depends what their growth is. Air France keeps saying they're vulnerable.
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I don't see what can stop it. We don't see any point where it will tail off.
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I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.