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Adam Nathan ✓

@adampnathan · More travel analysis → · joined 29 May 2008

Airlines, airports, hotels and cities. I explain the strategy and infrastructure behind how we travel. San Francisco.

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Mayor Lurie talks a big game on housing. So I looked at the actual results, and they're pretty depressing. SF built 2,406 homes last year, 23% of the state goal's annual pace. Now he's calling for more rent control. He should build homes. Let's look at promises v. results: htt
Data visualization showing housing construction statistics in San Francisco, highlighting low achievement against state goals for 2025 and 2026.
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I used to save one amenity kit from every airline I flew, and at one point I had about 300 of them (lol). Then I recycled almost all of them. Airlines still make millions of these things, but the business behind them is much more interesting than most of the kits. https://t.co/
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@adampnathan Turkish airlines is definitely a life saver for people in Eastern Europe wanting to connect anything Asia /Africa. They are almost always cheaper and available. 4.1K views · 55 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
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Turkish is buying both sides of the network: 150 firm A321neos, 50 firm 787s and plans for up to 150 737 MAXs. It wants 800+ aircraft and 170m+ passengers by 2033. Orlando, Lima, Rio, Glasgow and Windhoek are named future routes. Most of its other large unserved cities are in ht
World map with red curved routes from Istanbul to five future destinations named in Turkish Airlines' strategy: Orlando, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Glasgow, and Windhoek. Gold dots mark the 12 largest other unserved cities by 2025 United Nations city population, led by Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Chennai and concentrated in India and China. A bottom rail lists 150 firm A321neos, 50 firm 787s, plans for up to 150 737 MAX aircraft, and 2033 targets of more than 800 aircraft and 170 million passengers. The gold dots are market-size context, not route forecasts.
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Emirates is still better at the premium widebody game. It offers more seats per departure, and its best First and Business Class products are better. It also made $5.4 billion after tax in FY2025-26, against $2.9 billion for Turkish in CY2025. The reporting periods and group htt
Two Emirates premium-product photographs show a private First Class suite and the A380 onboard lounge. A comparison panel lists Emirates after-tax profit of 5.4 billion dollars for FY2025-26 and Turkish after-tax profit of 2.9 billion dollars for CY2025, noting different calendars and group scopes.
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Turkish made the connection feel Turkish: Flying Chefs, Turkish food served on porcelain, enormous lounges and a new Business Class suite. Passengers with long layovers can also get a free city tour or, on eligible itineraries, a hotel stay in Istanbul. https://t.co/xVFcV6GHU3
Large photograph of the Turkish Airlines Business Lounge in Istanbul beside smaller photographs of a Flying Chef and the Crystal Business Class suite. Text notes a free guided city tour on eligible 6-to-24-hour connections and a hotel stay on eligible itineraries with a connection of at least 20 hours.
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Türkiye deregulated domestic aviation in 2003 and expanded regional airports, giving Turkish more cities to feed into Istanbul. Atatürk eventually ran out of room. Istanbul Airport opened for 90 million passengers, with a 200 million full-build plan. Turkish moved in 29 hours. h
Side-by-side aerial photographs of Atatürk Airport and Istanbul Airport. Atatürk handled about 68 million passengers in 2018 against stated capacity of 38.2 million. Istanbul Airport opened with capacity for 90 million and a full-build plan for 200 million. A note below marks domestic aviation deregulation and regional airport expansion in 2003.
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That network needs a very different fleet from Emirates. Turkish has 395 narrowbodies feeding 144 passenger widebodies through Istanbul; Emirates has 277 aircraft, all widebodies. Turkish grew from 70 aircraft in 2002 to 567 today. Most of the difference is the short-haul feeder
Line chart comparing Turkish Airlines and Emirates year-end fleets from 2002 to 2025. Turkish rises from 70 to 516 aircraft while Emirates rises from 38 to 277. A current-fleet panel shows Turkish with 395 narrowbodies, 144 passenger widebodies, and 28 freighters, versus 277 all-widebody aircraft at Emirates.
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Turkish kept adding spokes: first around Türkiye and nearby Europe, then across Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, followed by Asia and the Americas. By 2023, it served 291 international destinations in 128 countries. Its strategy deck counted 52,200 viable connections ht
World map with all 286 current Turkish Airlines routes from Istanbul in muted gold. Twenty-five documented route openings are highlighted in four colors for 2003 to 2006, 2007 to 2012, 2013 to 2016, and 2017 to 2023. The table below gives the first-service year for every highlighted airport, including San Francisco in 2015.
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Turkish can draw on a much larger home market than Emirates. Istanbul has nearly 16 million residents and Türkiye has 86 million. IST handled 84.4 million passengers in 2025. About 20 million transferred internationally, while more than 30 million began or ended an international
Istanbul photograph beside Istanbul Airport traffic figures for 2025. The graphic shows about 16 million Istanbul residents, 84.4 million airport passengers, more than 30 million international origin-and-destination passengers, and about 20 million international transfers.
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Turkish built its European network around frequency. It flies more often than Emirates to Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Heathrow, Madrid, Vienna, Rome and Zurich. Emirates still offers more seats to four of those cities because it sends larger aircraft. https://t.co/sGIpmuETYS
Table comparing weekly Turkish Airlines and Emirates flights and seats from Istanbul and Dubai to Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid, Vienna, Rome, and Zurich. Turkish operates more flights to all eight cities, while Emirates offers more seats to Frankfurt, Heathrow, Madrid, and Rome.
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Turkish Airlines carried 92.6 million passengers in 2025, nearly 40 million more than Emirates, with roughly twice as many aircraft. But it did not copy Emirates. Turkish built around frequency, narrowbodies and a much larger home market. Here is how Istanbul became the bigger
World map comparing Turkish Airlines and Emirates destinations. Turkish-only destinations are red, shared destinations are purple, and Emirates-only destinations are blue. IST is marked in red and DXB in blue. A bottom rail compares passengers, aircraft, and destinations: Turkish has 92.6 million passengers, 567 aircraft, and 286 destinations; Emirates has 53.2 million passengers, 277 aircraft, and 140 destinations.
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Amex, Chase and Capital One now run lounges at 19 U.S. airports. At DFW, JFK, LAS and LGA, all three compete. They sold the lounge as an escape from the terminal. The cards became so successful that the escape now needs waitlists, guest fees and time limits. https://t.co/m21J4iU
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@adampnathan It’s almost like the govt owned airline was a part of a govt master plan to build/grow dubai as a tourism/finance hub. 4.9K views · 36 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
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I think Emirates' next era will be broader and less dependent on the A380. It will remain the icon into the 2040s, while 777Xs, A350s, 787s and flydubai carry growth. The 367-aircraft order book and Dubai's $35b new airport could repeat the first act at larger scale. https://t.
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The same bets created real weaknesses. Emirates depends on one crowded hub, and huge widebodies give it less flexibility on thin routes. Its older 777 cabins also fell behind the A380 brand. The 777X slipped from a planned 2020 arrival to 2027, helping force a $5b retrofit. ht
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Its success eventually provoked a political backlash. U.S. rivals alleged $6b in hidden subsidies in 2015, but no government finding established the claim. Emirates financed aircraft globally, paid billions in dividends to Dubai, and Emirates Group posted 32 straight annual htt
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Emirates and Dubai were never separate projects. Dubai supplied $10m seed capital, $88m for aircraft and launch infrastructure, $4.5b for Terminal 3 and $4.0b during COVID. The larger advantage was alignment: airport capacity, tourism policy and trade strategy built around the
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Phase three added flexibility. flydubai's 737s serve routes that don't work for Emirates' widebodies. Since 2017, they've aligned schedules, loyalty and connections under separate brands. The network reaches 245 destinations; more than 5m codeshare passengers used it in the htt
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The airline helped create its own local market. Dubai became a destination for tourism, trade, finance and expats as well as a connection point. DXB grew from 11m passengers in 1999 to 95.2m in 2025. A commissioned Oxford study puts aviation at 27% of Dubai's GDP and one in htt
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Emirates made a Dubai connection desirable through product innovation. Video at every seat in 1992. Onboard phones in 1993. ICE in 2003. An A380 bar and two showers in 2008. Now it's adding what I think is the world's best Premium Economy seat: fully electric, with a https://t.
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Phase two was global scale. Emirates grew from 32 aircraft and 4.7m passengers in 1999-2000 to 255 aircraft and 154 destinations in 2016. Cargo helped make those routes work: today SkyCargo supplies 12% of airline revenue. Dubai added Terminal 3 and the first A380 concourse. h
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Then Emirates ordered aircraft ahead of each network phase. Tim Clark joined as head of planning in 1985 and gave the strategy rare continuity: the 777 after the Gulf War, the first A380 order in 2000, then a record 42 777s in 2005. Each bet supplied the range and seats for the
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Phase one was core Europe, the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia. Dubai sat between Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and its 24-hour hub pooled dozens of thin city-pairs into each departure. The network filled the widebodies before Dubai could. https://t.co/K42C604HGN
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Adam Nathan ✓@adampnathan
Emirates is the most insane aviation success story of the last 50 years. It started with two leased aircraft. Today it flies 277, and Dubai has the busiest international airport on earth. Emirates is a major reason Dubai became Dubai. Here's how its network, fleet and product h
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