"When the history of commercial aviation is written at the end of this decade, it will be noted that there has never been an airline quite like Emirates.

It's been a ding-dong year, with challenge after challenge, and I am pleasantly surprised to see Emirates in the top five places when it comes to profitability, and in the top 20 when size is measured in RPKs (revenue per passenger kilometre).

As this report goes live we have been named 'Best Economy Class Airline', 'Best Airline to the Middle East' and 'Runner-up Best Airline' in the 10 million web-poll by Skytrax."

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