(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Two Emirates aircraft seen at Dubai airport (file). Emirates Group plans to add 11,000 staff to businesses spanning the world's No 1 international airline to ground-handling, underscoring the company's growth ambitions as it draws fire from carriers feeling squeezed out of the market, Bloomberg said. The additions will swell the workforce by 6% by March 2016, with half of the new recruits joining the main airline arm as cabin crew, Dubai-based Emirates said in a statement yesterday. The company employs 75,000 people now.
Emirates has turned itself into the leading global airline over three decades, leveraging a position at the crossroads of global flightpaths to build the world's largest fleet of Airbus Group NV A380 and Boeing Co 777 wide-body jets. The carrier's reach has redrawn the competitive map, with rivals from Deutsche Lufthansa to American Airlines Group alleging unfair dominance, a claim the Gulf company has rebuffed.
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