Emirates is an airline based at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 2,500 flights per week, from its hub at Terminal 3, to 122 cities in 74 countries across six continents. The company also operates four of the world’s ten longest non-stop commercial flights from Dubai to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston.
Emirates, together with its subsidiaries, provides commercial air transportation services. The company’s commercial air transportation services include passenger and cargo services. It is also involved in the wholesale and retail of consumer goods, and food and beverages; hotel operations; and in-flight and institutional catering services.
When the Dubai-based Emirates airline was founded, it was backed by Dubai’s royal family and operating leased aircraft from Pakistan International Airlines. 30 years later, the company own 231 planes flying nearly 49.3 million people to 144 cities in 81 countries.
The Emirates Group has emerged as a serious contender by winning numerous industry awards, but more importantly, the Group has initiated a number of humanitarian projects that mostly help disadvantaged children in the surrounding regions. Its efforts include the Emirates Airline Foundation, which focuses on the health and welfare of needy children, and the Emirates-CHES Home, an orphanage fitted with a medical wing for abandoned HIV positive children in Chennai, India.
