Emirates is one of two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates. As of 2019, it is also the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 3,600 flights per week from Dubai International Airport. It operates to more than 150 cities in 80 countries through its fleet of nearly 300 aircraft. Illustrated with over 150 images, this book examines the history of the airline from its founding in 1985 until the present day. AUTHOR: Babak Taghvaee is an aviation journalist, historian and book author. He started his career as an aviation journalist by writing for AirForces Monthly and the Aviation Industries Magazine in 2008. Since then, he has written over 800 articles and news reports about military aviation for the magazine, as well as other brands of Key Publishing Ltd. Through his career, he has written four books about the Air Forces and Army Aviation Force of Iran and Ukraine, which were published in Austria and the UK between 2009 and 2020.
