Emirates Adds Further Restriction To Booking Their New First Class

"Emirates only plans on having the new first class on at most nine 777-300ERs by 2019, which is a very small percentage of the fleet. "

Less than 4% of its fleet, and it will take 2 years.

If you really want to try it emirates allows you to book First out and economy back, You could mix the itin to save a bit more money.

Maybe use the @When I Travel The World idea, and mix new F and new J

What I think is odd is that they are introducing new first on these medium-haul routes. The current routes seem to be mostly daytime flights, and how well can one sleep on a 7.5-hour flight?

Honestly, such a great product should be deployed on longer routes (I'm thinking Australia, US, South America), though again, I (obviously) have no personal statistics on yields and/or revenue on EK routes.

I am showing the exact itinerary from ADD pricing out in A on the Emirates website currently. My guess is the inventory buckets are just very dry given there are only a handful of seats in the new cabins.

i wonder how the draconian FAs check on seat belts on during turbulence/landing/takeoff with the suites fully enclosed ...

Lucky: any idea what the new routes will be when EK gets these new birds ?

"The good news is that Emirates is known for their fairly reasonable first class fares.""

You kid right? I wanna live in this world you're living in. Try a F ticket from LAX-DXB it will cost you 20K+. One of the most expensive F class fares in any airline.

Sure, you can route via Addis Adaba or whatever, but I'm not going out of my way to some random small country just to pay less.

@schar - FYI, the 'random small country' has over 100 million people and is about twice the size of Texas.

@Schar - Say anything about CMB -
a one hour flight from where I live and I will track you down and kill you 😉

I had a tour of the new Emirates B777 First Class & Business Class cabin yesterday at Brussels. I made a Youtube clip with my impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQyI14CALA . The First Class suite is phenomenal, especially the virtual cameras for the two suites in the middle aisle (10'10" in the clip).

@Varun, I will visit CMB in February. I will take a big dump right on the street for you. My condolences.

FYI, I was aboard EK83 on 01/12/17 and it was not operated by a new 77W and consequently all F pax were dissapointed at the lack of new F cabins. I think you should mention that EK only rolled out the product to BRU and not GVA on 1st Dec

@Varun
Why? So you can be a pretentious elitist wannabe who happens to be a professional cheapskate?

@schar
Outside of their nonstops and the Kangaroo route, EK is generally quite affordable in J and F

Apart from the bloggers who make their living out of It and always wanna be the first in reviewing. Just wait a few months and then Evernote should be able to book it via JAL ex HKG or CMB

can't wait to try these out. they look amazing!

@Varun Wow Varun...threatening a stranger's life over the internet, how classy! Wait for my lawyers to reach you with a big fat restraining order and lawsuit. Oh, and the police's involvement. Next time you'll think twice before threatening someone online. 🙂

@christ: I would presume that the suite doors would be required to be left open during take off/ landing, as is usually the norm.

All the entitled weasels sure are squealing! Gee, imagine it. An airline is actually limiting their most prized product to actual cash paying customers, without a discount. Wow. What a concept. Seems like there is a demand. Seems like people will pay for it. Seems like they don't need to play to the bottom feeders who demand access to everything. Seems like a pretty smart business decision. Hey, I know...let's sue them! that's seems to be a popular sentiment these days!

I'm able to book an award F seat through Qantas website on EK181 in Feb next year. Not sure if thats the new seat though - its a double daily so maybe the older plane on that flight.