TC is now Sir TC
 

Congratulations to TC

Emirates CEO Tim Clark knighted - Business Traveller

I'd second that.

How very British.....he's spent decades in foreign lands, forging an alliance with the Natives, gaining their trust and doing jolly well for him self to boot...I say give that man a Knighthood. Who cares if its led to some pretty rough patches for good old Big Airlines...he's one of us after all what! hear hear... now pass the Pims old boy...

No surprise there then, the rumours have been doing the rounds for a while. It will be interesting to see if the rumours of his departure after his Knighthood turnout to be true as well.

With the sponsorship of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Queen's Baton Relay as well as the recent introduction of the Thames 'Emirates Air Line' link and the 'Emirates Aviation Experience' in London, it could be argued that the timing of his knighthood is perhaps a little more than simply a coincidence.

After all, cosying up to Boris won't have been done out of the goodness of his heart! ;)

Whilst he has indisputably done well for Emirates and for the loathsome Emirate which is its base, I would have thought that he way he has taken Emirates to such a dominant position on so many routes would have made him persona non grata as far as the UK was concerned. No doubt he has been good to the right people.

For services to…. erm… er… … himself?
 

So, you can still get what you pay for!

Come on guys, New Yorks Mayor Giuliani was knighted in 2002, and I doubt if he even knows what a Gin & Tonic looks like.
Well done TC.

Surely he should be made a 'Sheik" or "Sultan" instead of "Knight"!:rolleyes::zzz:

If Cameron's cronies can get 'gongs' for doing absolutely nothing along with one or two going to whistleblowers, then I feel TC deserves his. He has done some hard work to get EK where it is today.

I wonder why WW hasn't received his for services to BA?

It's not so difficult to "work hard" when you have slave laborers and free fuel.

I wonder what will be on the citation? For services:

… against the airline services of free states?
… against his native land?
… to the sovereign wealth funds of despotic feudal dictatorships?
… to launch-aid repayment from wing factories in Wales?
… to dangling Boris Johnson in front of the world's media?

Those'll be the airlines that have either Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection then? Or state sponsered airlines? Or those that should have been allowed to die out and fade away years ago:rolleyes:

Not the impression I get. Airports such as Newcastle and Glasgow were very happy to get EK operating into them; a big boost to local economies and 'oop north' needs it... Whereas BA has pulled out of the regions totally except for franchise operators:hmm:

He may not be on my Christmas list but whatever anyone says I believe that he has done well at what he was tasked to do...

Without risking a thread drift, Free Fuel??????:ugh: How many times has this MYTH been dragged through this forum?

Give the guy his dues. He saw an opportunity to make money for a company entrusted to him by using all available sources, and he did.

5 A380's to Heathrow, 3 B777 to Gatwick DAILY and numerous other UK destinations certainly deserves some sort of recognition from HM for services to the people, I would think.

The UK regions
 

TC has done more for MAN, BHX, NCL et al than the resident national carrier.

With the amount of EK branding that you see in the UK nowadays in one form or another, you would be forgiven for thinking that EK is actually the national carrier of the UK.

Careful for what you wish for. I'm sure there is a lot of political work going on behind the scenes to close the the gap across the Pacific and the Atlantic. When that happens it will be 'Lord Dubai'

Article on TC and EK for those interested:

Emirates President Tim Clark Is Person Of The Year

Fascinating article
 

20 more years of Sir TC...!

The interviewer speculates, but who knows...

Excellent article and very fair, showing TC as a visionary whose determination and business prowess resulting in a massively successful airline.

Whilst not disputing the value of what he has done for the Emirate and the airline, I fail to see why he deserves recognition from the UK just because he happens to be a British citizen (born in the Netherlands Antilles by the way.). EK has certainly provided employment opportunities for people in the UK at and around the regional airports from which it operates, but it has taken revenue from UK carriers by doing so. One might argue, correctly, that they should have seen and availed themselves of those business opportunities.

Capetonian Terry Butcher former English football captain was born in Singapore, Boris Johnson was born in New York. Are they not British as a result of having popped out of the womb outside of our shores?

RexBanner : I'm not disputing that he's British, you may have missed my point.

What I'm questioning is why he was awarded a knighthood for services to British prosperity and to the aviation industry, when the beneficiaries have been the Emirates, Dubai specifically, and Emirates Airline. He has done stuff all for the UK airlines' prosperity, rather the opposite.