Emirates was founded in 1985 by  The Emirates Group in UAE. Emirates’s headquarters are currently located in Dubai and the main base in Dubai International Airport. Emirates is not a star alliance member. The company has 4 stars on Skytrax rating and has won the Skytrax awards Best Inflight Entertainment and Best Airline Staff in the Middle East. Şeyh Maktum Bin Raşid El Maktum leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Emirates Dnata Inc and Emirates usa.com Inc..

It has declared $ 27,880,338,205 in revenue. Emirates offers service to 141 destinations in 70 countries. Dubai-Karachi,Dubai-Kuwait,Dubai-Mumbai,Muscat-Dubai,Mumbai-Kuwait,Bahrain-Dubai are some of the main flight destinations.

Emirates’s fleet consists of Boeing 777 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 5.9 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Airbus A380 at 4.8 years old. They rank 5 among 16 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Boeing 777 with 162 of them at hand. They rank 19 among 67 airlines operating this type of aircraft.

Emirates have 1 accident reports to date. The most recent one is in 2016 at Dubai, United Arab Emirates with Boeing 777 aircraft.