A Boeing manufacturing plant seen in Seattle.
"You cannot take your eye off the ball in our business," said Emirates President Tim Clark. "Finance is not difficult. Engineering is."
  • Boeing needs a hands-on CEO, says Tim Clark, the president of Emirates.
  • "I've always said it should be an aerospace engineer. It would help a lot," Clark told Bloomberg.
  • Clark is an aviation veteran whose airline is the largest buyer of Boeing's widebody jets.

Boeing needs a hands-on leader who understands the business if it wants to get out of the rut it is in, says Tim Clark, the president of Emirates.