Ghaith Al Ghaith

Ghaith Al Ghaith is an Emirati aviation executive who is the founding chief executive of flydubai, handpicked by the Government of Dubai in 2008 to head the airline after a 23-year career at Emirates, which he had joined as a management trainee in 1986 and where he rose to Executive Vice President Commercial Operations Worldwide; under him flydubai has grown to a network of more than 95 destinations in 50 countries. ^{1 2 3}

The institutional biographies record no birth date for Al Ghaith, and the museum records none. His career began at Emirates Airline in 1986, when he joined as a management trainee a year after that airline's founding. ^{1 2}

At Emirates, Al Ghaith rose through commercial posts over 23 years to become Executive Vice President Commercial Operations Worldwide. ^{1 2} In 2008 the Government of Dubai handpicked him to head up flydubai, Dubai's first low-cost airline, which began operations in June 2009. ² Under his strategic direction from the beginning of operations, flydubai grew to a network of more than 95 destinations in 50 countries served by a fleet of 67 Boeing 737 aircraft, with up to 166 aircraft on order, as the Arab Air Carriers' Organization biography states them. ¹ The airline's own release, issued when he won the CEO Middle East Aviation CEO of the Year award for a second time, called flydubai the fastest growing start-up airline in the world at that point, reaching 46 destinations with 20 aircraft within its first years. ²

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