CAPA Live. Emirates’ Sir Tim Clark: “work going on with” Etihad

International recovery will take longer than Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline, first thought. With the focus now on controlling the spread, it’s not possible to think of operating fleets at the levels they had hoped.

Apart from the US, Sir Tim does not see the sector-specific aid that needs to go into the perfectly good businesses to help them survive. They have good business models – just no passengers.

Sir Tim believes it’s a good time to sort out a lot of the issues that have been niggling for a long time. There is an opportunity to think about how you would go about improving the way you manage those particular aspects of your business.

Sir Tim believes that if the business model was fit for purpose before the pandemic, then it’s probably going to be fit for purpose after the pandemic. If there was a fundamental problem before that, then there’s no point blaming the pandemic for the fact that you failed.

Talking at the CAPA Live on 10-Feb-2021, Emirates Airline’s president Sir Tim Clark spoke with CAPA’s chairman emeritus Peter Harbison.