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Bangkok Post, Thailand, Travel Column.
Byline: Imtiaz Muqbil
May 3--DUBAI -- In announcing record profits of US$476 million (18.9 billion baht) last week, the management of the Emirates airline and travel group clearly enjoyed taking a few tongue-in-cheek digs at hawkers of conventional wisdom in global aviation, its competitors as well as countries that artificially restrict traffic rights.
The Dubai-based group said its profits for the financial year ending March 31 were up 67 percent over the previous year, on total revenues of $3.8 billion, up 35.5 percent. It paid a dividend of $90 million.
"As usual, we managed to buck the trend of a travel industry which stagnated, at best, for the first three to four months of 2003 with the aftermath of Sars, the conflict in Iraq and the weak ...
- Bangkok Post, Thailand, Travel Column.
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- Bangkok Post, Thailand, guest column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 30, 2004 700+ words
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- Bangkok Post, Thailand, business briefs column.
- Newspaper article from: Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) September 7, 2006 700+ words
...capital post-IPO. IEC SETS UP DUBAI UNIT: International Engineering...has opened a trading unit in Dubai to serve the Middle East...in a Thailand exhibition in Dubai from Sept 10 to 13. Somsak...satang. To see more of the Bangkok Post, or to subscribe to the newspaper...
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- News wire article from: Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) April 13, 2007 700+ words
...the air-freight division of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines...operates 19 flights per week to Dubai, 10 to Hong Kong and seven...Ellis. To see more of the Bangkok Post, or to subscribe to the newspaper...com. Copyright (c) 2007, Bangkok Post, Thailand Distributed by McClatchy...
- Bangkok Post, Thailand, travel column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 20, 2004 700+ words
By Imtiaz Muqbil, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune...points such as Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai on airlines including Gulf Air, Qatar...travel industry. To see more of the Bangkok Post, or to subscribe to the newspaper...
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- Newspaper article from: Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) May 2, 2007 700+ words
...Istithmar Hotels FZE, part of state-owned Dubai World, has joined with the Thai developer...developer Raimon Land. To see more of the Bangkok Post, or to subscribe to the newspaper...bangkokpost.com. Copyright (c) 2007, Bangkok Post, Thailand Distributed by McClatchy...
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- Thailand: Bangkok Post celebrates 60th anniversary.
- News wire article from: Thai Press Reports August 3, 2006 700+ words
...sign showing the first masthead of the Bangkok Post marks the paper's offices at Mansion...avenue during the late-1960s, the Bangkok Post reports. Smiling in the foreground...storey house on Krung Kasem road. The Bangkok Post was born, and it sold for a mere one...
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- Thailand: Bangkok Post appoints new editor.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports April 3, 2006 700+ words
...report in English by Thai newspaper Bangkok Post website on 1 April The Post Publishing...Chantranontwong, 52, as editor of the Bangkok Post, effective from 3 April. Currently editor of the Bangkok Post's sister newspaper, Post Today...
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