Emirates will offer its passengers festive cheer for the whole month of December, with traditional Christmas treats and festive fare available across international lounges and a host of delights served inflight.
For more than a million customers expected to travel in December, Emirates’ heartfelt hospitality celebrates the most wonderful time of the year.
EMIRATES LOUNGES AT CHRISTMAS
Emirates’ First and Business Class lounges in Dubai will serve customer favourites like traditional roasted turkey with jus and cranberry sauce, glazed chestnuts, root vegetables, brussels sprouts and new potatoes, amongst a wide array of dishes.
The festive feast is complemented by Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013 and 2015, the Tranquil Tundra cocktail and Cozy Hearth mocktail by Dilmah, Jingle Mule cocktail from Evian, and Holiday Spiced Sour from Perrier.
In First Class lounges, winter desserts await, from traditional stollen to scrumptious mince pies dashed with vanilla sauce and red currant cheesecake, to melt-in-the-mouth cinnamon profiteroles and spicy gingerbread chocolate cake.
In Business Class lounges, Christmas dinner will also be served alongside tempting desserts like cherry pistachio festive tart, Christmas fruit cake, chocolate yule log, and lime macarons with peppermint ganache.
For an extra sparkle, guests can sample Moët Ice Impérial Brut and Moët Ice Impérial Rosé. Visitors can also get cosy with gingerbread lattes or mint hot chocolate from Costa Coffee.
Across the globe, Emirates Lounges will be decked out with festive fare – from lobster bisque and roasted rib-eye beef in San Francisco and LA, to grilled Norwegian salmon with creamy citrus velouté in Cape Town, roasted duck with red cabbage and caramelized apple wedges in Hamburg to ballotine of guinea fowl stuffed with date and forest sauce in Paris.
FESTIVE CHRISTMAS MENUS ON EMIRATES AIRLINES
From 14-26 December, customers in all classes will be offered festive hot chocolate, with different tempting toppings across classes from meringues to marshmallows to melt-in-the-mouth Valrhona chocolate pellets.
Then between 24 and 26 December, special giveaways will also be offered; dark chocolate truffles in Economy Class, gingerbread cookies in Premium Economy and Business Class, and a raspberry Paris-Brest pastry in First Class.
FESTIVE DISHES
In First, Business, and Premium Economy Class, the holidays come with a variety of festive dishes, the airline says.
Curated dishes like salmon gravadlax with beetroot and orange-marinated salmon, pickled herring with potato and quail egg salad, or smoked salmon with crab mayonnaise and salmon roe will be featured.
Main courses include classic turkey with jus, chestnut and turkey bacon stuffing, truffle potato gratin, caramelized chestnuts, and roasted brussels sprouts, as well as new dishes on select routes like herb-crusted lamb shank with jus, butternut squash and braised cabbage, to duck confit drizzled in cranberry jus lié, with truffle potato gratin and caramelised chestnuts, to seared venison soaked in sage butter and blackberry sauce with potato gratin and braised red cabbage with apple.
An array of festive desserts awaits featuring all the flavours of the season, and First Class customers will also enjoy their very own Santa Claus, made from fresh strawberries and cream.
Economy Class customers can also unwrap their festive main course of roasted turkey, chestnut and turkey bacon roulade, and maple-roasted parsnips. Desserts include fruit cake doused in orange sauce and a mousse cake featuring one of Santa’s reindeers especially for children.
In the A380 Onboard Lounge, customers departing Dubai can munch on some mince pies, stollen, panettone, festive macarons, ginger profiteroles, dark chocolate ganache and cranberry financier as well as hazelnut and cranberry jars, biscotti and candy canes.
Customers visiting the onboard lounge can also grab a Christmas sandwich stuffed with turkey, roast beef, cheddar cheese, cranberry sauce and chilli tomato relish.
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FESTIVE INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT ON EMIRATES
This Christmas, Emirates customers have a choice of 42 holiday season movies onboard the award-winning inflight entertainment ice, with new movies such as Candy Cane Lane starring Eddie Murphy, EXmas starring Leighton Meester and A Christmas Frequency starring Denise Richards alongside all-time favourites Last Christmas, The Holiday, Elf, The Polar Express and even Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1964.
There is an array of 14 Christmas TV shows and holiday specials, including Lighting Up Christmas, Royal Carols: Together at Christmas 2023 and Tom and Jerry: Snowman’s Land. For those who wish to get into the holly jolly rhythm, there are 15 albums of Christmas music from artists like Sam Smith, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald and more.
FESTIVE SEASON WINES
This December, an exclusive vintage – Château Mouton Rothschild 2003 from the Emirates Vintage Collection will be available to First Class customers travelling on routes from Dubai to the UK and USA.
With an 1855 Bordeaux classification, this wine is sought after for its bold expression of Pauillac terroir and status as a ‘First Growth’.
A fusion of art and wine, Mouton Rothschild has brought together some of the most celebrated artists of their day to draw the labels, including Miro, Chagall, Braque and Picasso.
The 2003 vintage marked the 150th anniversary of the Rothschild family’s acquisition, and the label featured a photograph of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild.
Onboard routes to the US and UK in First Class in December, Emirates will be serving another exclusive and extremely rare vintage of champagne – Dom Pérignon Plenitude 2, 2004.
This majestic and intense champagne is referred to as the plenitude of energy, benefitting from close to 15 years in the cellar.
Across other classes, Emirates customers will also enjoy premium wines with new additions such as the M. Chapoutier Hermitage Monier de la Sizeranne, Rhone, 2019 in Business Class on European routes, and the Château de Sales, Pomerol 2014 in Premium Economy on routes to Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.
