Showing posts with label UAE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UAE. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Photos of Dubai
Great photos of Dubai here. I am so fascinated by that city, God willing we will visit it some day.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
More on the fake prosperity of the UAE
(HT to Secret Dubai Diary)
These days, despite defiant protestations of resilience, no one seems to know when the sweet breeze will return. The UAE is still in the doldrums. For the first time since the seven Gulf statelets joined together as a union in 1971, people are beginning to mutter—rather quietly, for sure— whether there may be something amiss with the autocratic, opaque system that hitherto seemed to work so well behind closed doors. “Nobody really knows what any of the statistics are,” says a Western analyst. “We haven’t seen the half of it yet,” says a Western banker, referring to the debt and the possible defaults. It is notable that almost nobody in business or government is prepared to talk publicly. Cohorts of public-relations people surround the bigwigs and shield them from scrutiny.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Architecture of Dubai
HT to T19 for this. I have not been there yet, but am guessing that I will sooner or later end up visiting this city. Check out all the pictures. Pretty amazing:
Dubai Architecture
Dubai Architecture
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Big Business: Emirates Air
Well, maybe you've never heard of them, but if you live here in the Middle East you know they're a big company, and growing fast. For me the Emirates (UAE) are a fascinating little country. They have grown quickly and managed to stave off the rampant corruption that plagues most countries in the region. How? Not sure... Maybe they're just too Western?
Anyway, interesting article here, especially for those interested in international business, or who travel in the ME every now and then. A section:
Some may consider Maktoum's goals overreaching, but he has delivered so far on all his promises. He built Emirates from a two-plane operation, started with $10 million in 1985, into one of the world's largest international carriers, with 105 planes. Emirates is the world's fastest-growing airline - it will take delivery of one new Boeing or Airbus plane a month for the next five years - and Maktoum said he would like to see it become, some day, the world's biggest.
"We've never seen anything like it before," said Robert Cullemore, a consultant at Aviation Economics, an aerospace advisory firm in London. "We've never seen growth at this rate."
Of course, success for Maktoum is not just a simple matter of buying airplanes. He must still compete with well-established carriers plying many of the same routes as Emirates, attract enough passengers to fill his vast fleet profitably and hope that the economies of the Middle East, including Dubai, and emerging markets in Asia and the Indian subcontinent continue to grow at their current pace to justify the huge investment by Emirates.
Anyway, interesting article here, especially for those interested in international business, or who travel in the ME every now and then. A section:
Some may consider Maktoum's goals overreaching, but he has delivered so far on all his promises. He built Emirates from a two-plane operation, started with $10 million in 1985, into one of the world's largest international carriers, with 105 planes. Emirates is the world's fastest-growing airline - it will take delivery of one new Boeing or Airbus plane a month for the next five years - and Maktoum said he would like to see it become, some day, the world's biggest.
"We've never seen anything like it before," said Robert Cullemore, a consultant at Aviation Economics, an aerospace advisory firm in London. "We've never seen growth at this rate."
Of course, success for Maktoum is not just a simple matter of buying airplanes. He must still compete with well-established carriers plying many of the same routes as Emirates, attract enough passengers to fill his vast fleet profitably and hope that the economies of the Middle East, including Dubai, and emerging markets in Asia and the Indian subcontinent continue to grow at their current pace to justify the huge investment by Emirates.
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