Emirates' future leaders in consortium with London Business School

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The Emirates Group comprises Emirates Airline, Dnata, the largest travel services provider in the Middle East, and other business units which include airport ground handling.

Emirates is the world's fastest-growing intercontinental airline, one of the world's five most profitable and among the 20 largest ones. It is based in Dubai, one of the few cities in the world that pursues an open-skies policy, with more than 110 airlines in free and fair competition.

Its 77 all wide-bodied fleet is among the youngest in the skies, with an average age of 55 months - over eight years less than the industry average. The airline plans to more than double its size by 2012.

London Business School is the graduate school of business at the University of London. Founded in 1965, the School graduated over 800 MBAs, Masters in Finance, Sloan Masters and PhDs from over 70 countries last year. With 80 per cent of students and 70 per cent of faculty from outside the UK, London Business School is the most international institution of higher education in the United Kingdom. Each year its executive education programmes serves 5,000 managers. Both the full time MBA and Executive MBA programmes are consistently ranked amongst the world's best: the full time MBA was ranked number seven in the world in the Financial Times Business Education Survey 2003.

Frances Barton, Emirates' Corporate Communications;
Tel: (+9714) 203 2144; M: (+97150) 650 3900;