airbus says that the dubai based airline is key for its business they are probably the only one who has the ability right now in the marketplace to take a minimum of six a year for a period of eight to ten years and then we can add some on top of that so quite honestly if we can't work out a deal with emirates i think there is no choice but to shut down the program but i'm hopeful that we'll work out a deal with emirates and others can add airplanes on top of that some hold bring mains apparently but the revolution will have to wait. while staying with the industry turkish airlines has reclaimed to the top spot over compared to the emirates because it carried more passengers in twenty seventeen that's according to newly released numbers a sixty nine million passengers flew turkish last year that's a bump of nine percent from the year before. there were sixty six million while