Sir Maurice Flanagan, KBE

Foretitle(s): Sir
Surname: FLANAGAN
Style: Sir Maurice Flanagan, KBE
Recreations: omnivorous reader, aspiring boogie woogie pianist (not very good), listening to classical music and pre-1940 jazz, watching cricket and soccer, aspiring Arabist (not very good at that either)

Career: Nat Serv navigation offr RAF 1951-52; BOAC (subsequently Br Airways): grad trainee 1953-55, various overseas postings from station mangr to area mangr 1956-70, regnl mangr Midlands and Northern England 1970-74, regnl sales mangr UK South and dep gen 1974-78; seconded to Dubai Govt as dir and gen mangr DNATA 1978-80, md DNATA 1980-85, md Emirates Airline and DNATA 1985-90, gp md Emirates Gp 1990-2003, vice-chm and gp pres Emirates Gp 2003-06, exec vice-chm Emirates Airline and Gp 2006-; Liveryman Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, Freeman City of London; Hon DLitt Univ of Bradford 2008, Hon LLD Univ of Liverpool 2008; FRAeS, Hon FRAeS

Books and Publications: The Garbler Strategy (TV play, 1970); numerous conf papers on civil aviation, poems published in The Spectator