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Fly Buy Dubai (The Remarkable 25 Year Journey of Dubai Duty Free. 25 Years 1983-2008.) In 1945 Rineanna Airport, some 135 miles from Dublin, later known as Shannon International, began receiving scheduled aircraft from TWA and PanAm. The number of international carriers using Shannon rose sharply over succeeding years. The door was now open for the entrepreneurial spirit of one man to alter the course of the aviation industry.

In 1937 the inauguration of an Imperial Airways C-Class flying boat service brought Dubai into the aviation era. From the foundations of 1937 to the modernity of 2007, the 70th anniversary of civil aviation in Dubai is a milestone captured in a book for the first time. With colorful insight from many who have contributed to the vision of the Maktoum family, and archival material from around the world, Flight into the future builds into a blueprint of how the emirate has emerged as one of the world’s aviation hubs.