Air Arabia: H1N1 'bigger threat' than economy

10 August 2009

Adel Ali, CEO of Air Arabia has said that swine flu is a bigger threat to the airline industry than the global economic crisis, Bloomberg has reported. 'A lot of people are not travelling because of swine flu,' he has said. 'Swine flu is a bigger threat than the economy.' The carrier's Q2 profits rose 10%, attributed to the addition of new routes.

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