Today no, tomorrow yes and vice versa. Would it be clever? Yes.

Look at all the synergies being pushed through suddenly. From codeshares, terminal moves, schedules and destination alignments to onboard advertisements and PA's. Rapid 738 fleet replacement by 7M8 and 7M9. flydubai this month alone will receive 5 new MAX aircraft with older NG's leaving the fleet.

The problem is IMHO the EK brand dillution and possible harm. The flydubai and EK product offerings are still too different. You need one brand, one product and service level.

Too many big ego's in the way!

execrab, I’m pretty sure we all know what happened. It was a tragic accident but don’t take what was said so personally. The EK accident was equally tragic and I feel for both because of the loss of life but being defensive because of your employer or friends isn’t the answer. I think ultimately that people are trying to point out irregularities or misconceptions and that is healthy in our business despite how how close you are to an accident or incident. That being said, I hope we all can learn from what happened to prevent it from occurring again. Just my thoughts.

I trust such a post was typed ‘tongue in cheek’, so to speak.

Of course it was, just as TBL warrior’s post obviously was 😁

Whst some Fz pilots may want the companies to merge because they feel it may be a shortcut to long haul command without learning the job from the right hand seat, it make more sense to merge the non-operational parts of the business such as HR, finance, etc but keep the 737 on a separate AOC, so it becomes “EMIRATES (operated by fly Dubai)”, in the same way that the US regionals and majors operate. But who knows, anything is possible.