Emirates announces top management and fleet plans

Emirates SkyCargo’s new Divisional SVP of Image: Badr Abbas

The all-male list of 12 new top management appointments recently published by Emirates, includes the successor to the previous Divisional Senior Vice President of Emirates SkyCargo, Nabil Sultan. Badr Abbas, a long-standing employee at the airline, having totaled 24 years thus far, has been promoted to the post, filling a gap that has existed since MAR24, when Nabil Sultan was named Executive Vice President, Passenger Sales and Country Management, Emirates. Abbas assumed his new position on 08JUL24. For the past almost five years, he held the role of Senior Vice President – Commercial Operations (Africa) at Emirates, having rotated internationally since completing his Commercial Management Traineeship in 2001. His appointments have taken him to Pakistan, Cyprus, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Saudia Arabia, and UAE.

Emirates Group Chairman and Chief Executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, upon announcing the appointments, said: “These appointments reflect the expanded scale, breadth, and ambition of our business. I’m heartened that we have been able to fill these roles with internal talent, including UAE nationals. The Emirates Group will continue to invest in being an employer of choice for the best talent in the industry, to deliver world-leading products and services, and reflect Dubai’s vision to be number one in everything we do.” In other news, in STAT Times, last week, Nadeem Sultan, Senior Vice President, Freighters & Cargo Planning for Emirates, revealed that the airline was planning to increase its freighter fleet to five B747Fs and eleven B777F by the end of the summer, with the addition of two more B747-400F (also on ACMI as the existing three of that aircraft type). The reason behind the move are the ongoing delivery delays of Boeing production freighters and a ten conversion freighters on order at Israel Aerospace Industries. Emirates SkyCargo speaks of a 4–6-month delays on its orders and 4-5-year waits should any new freighter orders (Airbus and Boeing) be placed from now on. It therefore wants to be prepared in order to secure reliable long-term capacity for its customers, as it pursues its growth strategy. Regarding its 2022 order of five production B777Fs, Sultan revealed: “The first of those five remaining aircraft is being delivered last week of JUL24. We have a firm date for that. And then the remaining three aircraft are going to be delivered in SEP24, OCT24, and NOV24. And then the last one, we’re looking at FEB25.”

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