By Alexander Cornwell and Tim Hepher
By Alexander Cornwell and Tim Hepher
DUBAI/PARIS, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Tim Clark will retire because the president of Emirates Airline on the finish of June 2020 after greater than three many years on the state-controlled enterprise that has helped to rework Dubai into one of many world’s main journey crossroads.
Emirates Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum mentioned on Tuesday in an inner memo to employees, reviewed by Reuters, that Clark would keep on as an adviser to the corporate.
“Via wars, financial recessions, disasters pure or artifical, and numerous trade upheavals, Tim has ably steered and grown Emirates to its standing right now because the world’s largest worldwide airline, and an eminent participant within the international airline trade,” Sheikh Ahmed mentioned within the memo.
An Emirates spokeswoman confirmed the retirement to Reuters.
Clark, 70, joined the airline as a founding member in 1985, having beforehand labored at Gulf Air and Caledonian…