Maurice Flanagan
| Sir Maurice Flanagan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 November 1928 Leigh, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 7 May 2015 (aged 86) London, England |
| Residence | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Leigh Boys Grammar School and Lymm Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Liverpool University |
| Occupation | Executive vice-chairman of The Emirates Group |
| Home town | Leigh, Greater Manchester |
| Spouse(s) | Audrey Bolton (m. 1955) |
| Children | 3 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 Royal Air Force
|
| Years of service | 1951–1956 |
| Rank | Flying Officer |
Sir Maurice Flanagan, KBE (17 November 1928 – 7 May 2015) was a British businessman, the founding CEO of Emirates and the executive vice-chairman of The Emirates Group.
Flanagan was born in 1928 in Leigh, Lancashire, England. He attended initially the now defunct Leigh Boys Grammar School, starting the year World War II broke out, but transferred later to Lymm Grammar School, and then Liverpool University, where he gained a BA in History and French. He performed his National Service in the RAF as a navigator commissioned officer. Receiving a national service commission as an acting pilot officer in February 1951, he was confirmed in the rank of pilot officer in November. On Christmas Day, 1952, he was appointed to a commission in the RAFVR. He was promoted to flying officer in March 1954, and relinquished his commission two years later.
During an evening outing, he suffered a knee injury that ruled out a potential career as a football player, which Blackburn Rovers had shown interest in fostering.
Abandoning an athletic profession in 1953, he joined BOAC as a management trainee, subsequently working for the airline in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Peru, Iran, India and the UK.
In 1969, Flanagan was one of the winners of a TV playwriting competition run by the Observer newspaper and ITV's Saturday Night Theatre with "The Garbler Strategy", a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. Kenneth Tynan, one of the competition judges, invited Flanagan to write for the National Theatre, where Tynan was literary advisor. Flanagan chose the more sure route of a promising airline career.
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