Emirates CEO Calls U.S. Airlines’ Open Skies Arguments ‘Fallacious’ and ‘Malicious’
Photo Credit: Sir Tim Clark, President and CEO of Emirates speaking to the Press in Copenhagen. Emirates Airlines
Skift Take
It's really difficult to find Clark unprepared or off his game. The big three U.S. Airlines and the EU Transport Commission will have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat his arguments--not just because of the time difference with the UAE, either.
During a press conference at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, to announce Emirates Airlines’ first launch of A380 service in Scandinavia through a collaboration with Copenhagen International Airport, Tim Clark answered questions on the escalating disagreements over Open Skies in the US and support for the big three U.S. airlines involved in the dispute by the EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc.
The President and CEO of the largest of the Gulf carriers—and the largest operator of A380 aircraft in the world—described reports submitted by the big three U.S. carriers as part of their argument against U.S.-UAE Open Skies agreements as a “wholly spurious, fallacious, [and] malicious.”
Dubious Unanimity
Responding to Skift on the EU Transport Commissioner’s support for the big three carriers’ Open Skies claims, Clark referenced Emirates’ contributions to Europe, its close relationship with sovereign European States--including Denmark--and said the posit
