To celebrate the upcoming holiday season, Emirates has ramped up its product offering both on board and on the ground for a superior travel experience. A new Christmas menu has been introduced for the first time across all cabin classes featuring traditional festive meals.
The special menu will be in addition to the wide variety of cuisine available on board and features holiday favourites such as roast turkey and yule log cakes. The festive offering reflects Emirates’ commitment to providing regional and seasonal menus using fresh ingredients of the highest quality across its network.
The Christmas meals are available for customers travelling from Dubai to Australia, Europe, the United States or the United Kingdom and will be served throughout December.
Customers travelling in Economy Class can enjoy Rolled turkey buffé served with cranberry jus lié, mashed potatoes, chicken sausage and seasonal vegetables. For dessert, customers will be served Festive Chocolate Pudding with spiced ginger custard.
Those travelling in First and Business Class will start with a poached king prawns with Marie Rose sauce and fennel with lemon and herbs and enjoy a main course of rolled turkey buffé served with chestnut stuffing, cranberry jus lié, pumpkin mash and brussels sprouts with turkey rashers and cream. A variety of desserts is available on the different routes including Chocolate Pudding, Chocolate & Chestnut Torte and Yule log.
As a special treat, First Class Customers, can look out for luxury hot chocolate handmade with 100% Valrhona Chocolate and blended to perfection by chocolatier David Franco.
In addition, Emirates has also pulled out all the stops to ensure young flyers get the most of their holiday travel experience. A special kid’s festive menu is available for the second year with roast turkey, sweet potato mash, carrots and peas, as well as a candy cane and Emirates’ Little Travellers chocolate buttons as an added treat.
As part of the Emirates Fly With Me Animals, a fifth character will greet young travellers this December. Eve, the reindeer, will be introduced on board to coincide with the Christmas season. She will join Eric the eagle, Silka the seal, Abbott the hedgehog and Shane the Koala.
Emirates’ award-winning inflight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen, has over 2,500 channels of entertainment including 40 dedicated kids’ channels to keep children occupied. These include Marvel movies, all the Star Wars films, Disney Classics and movies based on Roald Dahl books. As a special treat in December, holidays classics such as Home Alone, Elf, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and The Nutcracker are also available on board.
