Emirates is known for its excellent inflight first class experience. The airline has now made a nice improvement to its ground experience, which premium passengers will no doubt appreciate.
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Atp Emirates needs to focus on arrivals services. Especially if they want to evolve from being a transit carrier to building up Dubai as the megacity they want it to be.
An arrivals lounge with shower + food/bev facilities would go a long way.
FINALLY we can see what they've been doing with all that construction in 2024 and earlier this year. It actually looks kind of nice, but how long does checking in take, really?
Does the new check-in lounge include a new private exit immigration and security channel? Or is it shared with Business still?
You are just one cranky soul. You fly around on miles and invitations but have no clue. Emirates first class volume simply doesn’t allow for an AF ground experience - but obviously you have never operated a large business otherwise you would know. Where is your next LH/Spohr bashing post?? It’s been over a week.
@ chris S -- I'm sorry, that's directed at me? Did you actually read the post I wrote? You say:
"Emirates first class volume simply doesn’t allow for an AF ground experience."
In my post, I say:
"Part of the reason the first class ground experience isn’t that great simply comes down to the scale of Emirates’ first class operation. The airline has, by far, the world’s largest first class network. The airline offers first class on nearly 200 planes, and operates nearly 27,000 first class seats per week."
"Of course it’s a little harder to provide a personalized first class experience when you have so many passengers to take care of."
We're literally saying the same thing, but you're criticizing me for it? I've gotta say, that's a mighty strange take.
@ yoloswag420 -- Agreed, I'm surprised Emirates doesn't have an arrivals lounge, given its 24/7 operation, and even Jumeirah has an arrivals lounge at the airport.
The only thing I can come up with is that the operation is just too big, and Emirates doesn't have space for this in the current terminal. Maybe it's something we'll see when Emirates moves to DWC?
@ AeroB13a -- Hah, I suspect it has been years since the Kardashians visited a commercial airport terminal, but otherwise, probably true.
It's nice and actually not blingy at all. Blingy would have been...full-sized statues of prancing horses and maidens covered in gold leaf, or strings of pearls dripping down from oversized chandeliers, or 100% surface coverage of burled walnut panelling with gold trim. No, this is not blingy at all (though it could easily have been!). It's nicely done.
An excellent example of a diplomatic slap down Ben, just the right tone and depth of delivery.
My lesson for today, thank you …. 🙂
Agreed... just that over-the-top Emirates 'blingy' entrance screams 'elegant understatement' !
It certainly doesn't beckon me to come inside for a relaxing & soothing check-in experience (whatever that might be)...
But what does this 'basic economy' jealous envy-obsessed Yank even know !
(Not that familiar with the Beckhams but Kardashians are an embarrassment and partially embody the declining state of the EEUU.. )
Incoming stereotype so heads up but South Asian and Middle Eastern families overpack like crazy. This includes many people I consider close, so not trying to insult anyone. Just a cultural thing.
The optics on the UAE often touch on the exploitation of blue-collar South Asian labor but there is a robust upper/upper middle class South Asian community in business/finance that would take advantage of this.
Given Qatar has multiple arrivals lounges, I feel it would be in EK's best interest to the same.
Honestly, QR's intermediate immigration facility is kind of extra and unnecessary, but I think one landside facility is needed.
I suspect a nontrivial amount of Dubai originating/inbound travelers are flying QR thanks to their superior lounge offerings. We know this to be the case for Saudi Arabia and how it's "so haram".
Especially given their flights are so long and many are ultra long hauls. The new terminal 6 at JFK will have an arrivals lounge.
Even in this age of the woke generations, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Were we all the same the world would be such a boring place. One person’s over the top bling is apparently another person’s acceptable norm.
Many whom I know, like me, consider the Emirate experience to be most acceptable, however, rather that all the bling, Emirate’s could do to take a leaf out of the AF La Premiere chic design catalog. There is no substitute for good taste.
@Aero
It's Beckhams. Not Beckham's.
It's Kardashians. Not Kardashasian's.
An apostrophe is used to indicate possession. Or did they not teach you that salient point that in your government-run school?
Your expectation was too high.
You always brag about how you're a master of "English language" yet you can't even get this basic level grammar right.
By the way, you always saying "English language" is a really lame attempt to sound British. None of the Brits I've seen say "English language".
I don't think that an unemployed American in his 40s is hiding behind the name AeroB13a and trying to act a Brit in his 70-80s with a dementia, unlike Plane Jane but I'm not sure why are you keep trying to make yourself look dumb.