EMIRATES – NEW ROUTES AND INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
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The Dubai-based award-winning international airline, Emirates, has one of the youngest fleets in the world. The airline has ordered 120 Airbus A350s, 11 A380s and 12 Boeing 777-300ERs, at a cost of $35 billion.
Emirates will take delivery of 22 new aircraft this year. They include 10 Boeing 777-200LR planes, which each have eight elegant first class private suites, 42 lie-flat business class seats and 216 roomy economy class seats.
Emirates flights
The airline has rapidly expanded its international routes to 99 destinations in 62 countries. In the last half of 2007, Emirates inaugurated six new routes — Dubai to and from Venice, Newcastle, Houston, Sao Paulo, Toronto and Ahmedabad.
Houston is the second US gateway for Emirates. Flights are 17 hours from Dubai to Houston and 15 hours return. New York was Emirates' first US destination in 2004.
Eight new routes, including Dubai to Cape Town, South Africa, will be launched in March 2008. Cape Town is Emirates' fifteenth destination in Africa and second gateway in South Africa, besides Johannesburg.
Inflight entertainment
Passengers on Emirates flights will have access to an in-flight digital entertainment system with interactive audio, video, games, communication and connectivity support. ICE Digital Widescreen systems on Emirates' 777-200LR flights allow passengers to select from more than 1000 entertainment channels and send and receive e-mail and text messages from their personal in-seat entertainment systems.
Dubai to Paris flights were the first to showcase Emirates' digital widescreen system service. More than three-quarters of the Emirates fleet will offer the new system by the end of 2008. The entertainment system will be installed in the remaining planes over the next two years.
The ICE Digital Widescreen system boasts the largest wide-screen televisions of any airline. TVs measure 23 inches in first class, 17 inches in business class and 10.6 inches in economy. Besides movies, TV and audio, the system features more than 100 games.
Using My USB, passengers can look at their vacation images on screen, as they fly home. With My Playlist, they can compile a personal selection from nearly 10,000 music tracks. Each first class and business class seat has laptop charging points. Several charging points are available in each economy class seat row.
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