Review: Emirates A380 First Class Dallas To Dubai

I'm assuming you booked w/ AS miles... I thought the car service was no longer included. Did you pay extra for the car service?

In your flight details, would you list miles and/or costs for flight reviews?

Hey Ben, too bad you seemed to have an average crew on your DFW-DXB flight. I had an awesome crew and that was the thing that made the flight awesome and extra-ordinary. I'm still thinking about it now, 9 months later!

Also, we were served Dom 2004 on the ground if I recall correctly, and I think I have a picture to prove it as it was being poured. Interesting to see that it's changed along with the amenity kit.

Fantastic trip report as usual Ben. Detailed and feels like I am on board with you experciencing the moment. I've got yet to fly emirates though I seem to be spending most time aboard Etihad Airways between LAX and AUH. The Arabic meze looked simply incredible and so tasty. Usually what I order aboard EY. Can't go wrong with the bar about EK - glad to hear it was a pleasant flight and wish the service could have been much better for you.

that's crazy about the milk. you mean on an entire a380 they can't get a carton of milk for you?

Ben,

The champagne served on the ground must by a HUCA thing, as I took this same flight DFW-DXB four weeks ago and was served Dom 2004 upon boarding. Got the photos to prove it.

I couldn't get past the Penn State-branded pretzels, myself.

Lucky - I love your blog, but is anyone still reading these EK trip reports anymore? These have jumped the shark a while ago and smack of "padding". Please, please revitalize your TRs with some new reviews of other J or PE products that people can relate too/need to travel on and are less likely to have flown or read about. AC, SAS, KL, LH, AF to mention a few all have or are in the process of upgrading/changing their hard products for example. We need reviews of these changes. Your innovative style keep you ahead of the others, but these EK trip reports are becoming sooze fests IMO.

Hey Ben, stationery is what you write on...

Excellent report! Looks like you had a good time! The seats must have been comfy for you to fall asleep in the upright position! Or was it the champagne that was too good? 😉

RE the chauffeur service. If just on a one day stopover in Dubai (travelling on AS award tix), are you able to utilize it on the return from the hotel to the airport? I understand your "workaround" for getting the car at the airport, but can you get a voucher/reservation for the return trip before you leave the airport?

The stationery pads are a relic from the pre-digital era: who uses them?

Phenomenal trip report as always Ben. I had forgotten that there was a First Class Bar as well as the big Business Class one. Do passengers typically use this bar?

Finally given that the upper deck of the 380 is narrower than the 777s, and that they have the same configuration in each 1-2-1, are the suites on the 380 narrower than those on the 777 as well ?

You write some of the best trip reports online, BUT another EK F Class trip report?.

"I decided to take my water supply into my own hands, and raided the 11 empty suites for their bottled water."

- These would be the bottles of water in the totally unnecessary and redundant mini-bar right?

Did you just show then your BP and they gave the Chauffeur car service?

Very nice report. You left Dallas on Runway 18L; there is no runway 16 at DFW.

"I fell asleep with my seat in the upright position"

Most people refer to that as "passing out" 🙂

"(side note: the Mexican first officer was really attractive)" Sounds like you would have preferred the first officer to serve you some champagne and warm nuts.

You would think with your celebrity status now, seeing you on TV and reading about you in many newspapers, your face would be recognizable to the crew. It is to me. So even dumber of them to provide substandard service. Thanks for the great post and pictures.

Two off the wall questions:
1. They don't mind you using different seats in first class for various reasons. No attitude?
2. Have two people ever used the shower together on the plane? Sorry, had to ask 🙂

After looking at ExpertFlyer.com, I find that business class is consistently about 75% full between Dallas and Dubai, I think that when you flew with your mom, it was just a slow day.

@Kent C

Regarding 2 seats; if there is a light load the crew probably prefer if the passengers use a different seat to sleep in.

That way they don't have make/unmake the bed if the passenger wakes up mid flight and decide to have something to eat/work/watch a movie before going back to sleep.

What's in the front cubby hole where there's a half ellipse mirror?

"Clearly the crew was enjoying some cappuccinos on the flight, because up until this point no one in first class had consumed any milk, so there’s not much excuse to be out of it before breakfast service" --- with the level of influence your blog now has, I would be very careful about making comments like this unless I was 100% certain that was the case. I'd hate to think real people were getting into trouble (or worse) at work just so you can get a witty one liner for the blog. By all means point out objective service failings like the lack of milk, but presenting a possibly not true opinion about why as fact seems a bit inappropiate. Although you said it was a great flight, my takeaway feeling was that the crew serving you in F are likely to get into trouble as a result of this post.

There are toiletries such as cream, ect.

Wine List?

"To be honest this wasn’t the most attentive crew on earth, and after my call button went unanswered for a couple of minutes I decided to take my water supply into my own hands, and raided the 11 empty suites for their bottled water."

I guess the minibar isn't so redundant anymore as you mention it in every Emirates trip report

Hey Lucky. I'm flying EK F from AKL to MEL soon. Should I expect to receive sub par service on this flight as it's so short and just part of the longer Melbourne to Dubai route?

Great report as always.

Is it standard to be allowed two serves of the caviar? I thought I read somewhere that they only load a serve per passenger. I have my first EK flight in a few weeks DXB - LHR, it's a dinner and lunch flight so if I'm allowed two I'm going for it.

TK they usually have lots of caviar but as Dxb Lhr goes full in f you may not get 2. I've never asked for it twice one portion is enough for me.

I pressed "play" on the boarding music embed at the top and had it on in the background as I read the rest of the post. It made an already great post about 1000% more exciting.

Just to clarify: there is no such rule to deny a drink of choice to a F class pax. The FA may not want to deal with the extra paperwork to declare the bottle was opened in the ground.

Filling up on nuts at 15 grams of fat per ounce is not the best bang for your buck. The steak was not aged or sourced from a high quality variety. The salad is the same as business class. A FA serving muesli without milk: priceless.

Glad to read Matt made the flight enjoyable.

You could have always had the Musli with the Yoghurt..

Is the average time spent on the site per user going down?

I mean, yeah, I still check it out every day, but I'm not reading very much these days. I used to read everything.

Didn't realize Emirates had showers - so good to finally see a review. Yawn.

Someone didn't want to shower on a plane? 😮

Still a good read, but this is an exact copy of your others EK F trip reports. Too bad that now you're just flying always the same airlines on the same routes, i miss the old times with new reports on airlines from all over the world! 🙁

Boring. Are the advertisers still paying the same rates?

"Two off the wall questions:
1. They don’t mind you using different seats in first class for various reasons. No attitude?
2. Have two people ever used the shower together on the plane? Sorry, had to ask :)"

I can confirm that two people used the showers together not once but twice on a DFW-DXB flight in November 2014 and "they" had no issues doing it whatsoever.

Thank you for the great review, Lucky. The only thing that I found redundant was the number of 'nothing-else-to-do' haters in the comment section. Haters - Please share details of the blogs that you are writing, so we can all go have a look at them.

Can you take photos of stewardess too in your reviews. Beautiful women are part of an experience of an airline. Also how many miles needed and how did you earn them?

With such a light load, will they ever give you extra hot water in the showers?

I will have to contribute what its like from Houston to Dubai in Economy on Emirates and having High Tea at a more cost friendly place. I leave Tuesday! I love these posts. Thank you for sharing!

I, for one, never get tired of your Emirates First trip reports. Thanks, Lucky.

@Jim

The minibar is redundant if the crew does their job properly, might have been different if it offered cooled drinks.

The space it takes up could be better used for a wider seat or more storage space.

#therewillbehaters.
@Haters: just don't read the blog and stop your bitching (it is as easy as that).
@Ben: keep up the trip reports.

Although you always rave about them it seems substandard that with first class set up for 14 people why would they only have 2 sets of PJ's on board and why would you have to ask for them?
Also no milk on the whole plane??
You seem so happy that you got the drinks you wanted that you forgot that these should be the basics for such an airline

Glad to see I'm not the only one growing weary of the Emirates TR's...

Dare I say, I'd really look forward to some reviews of more airlines - Alitalia, Vietnam Airlines, Aeroflot, Royal Jordanian, Thai

Dallas doesn't have a runway 16. You took off on 18L. I know because I spotted your plane. Follow me on Instagram at @dallasfortworthspotter

@ Parker -- Good catch, thanks!

Do you think that it makes sense to redeem Alaska miles for such a flight?

Which miles did you use for this particular leg for redemption?

Great Trip report, as usual. And I must agree with many commenters that I certainly enjoy every new trip report, especially from A380’s and other First Class products.

For me it is a bit like a top TV show or sitcom. A TV show has the same basics every week, for example the same lead actors, sets etc., but for each episode there is a different story or twist. Exactly like your trip reports since each report there is a different crew with different dynamics, different passengers (and sometimes you are by yourself and sometimes with a traveling companion) so there is a different feel to each trip report. So keep it up Lucky. Only problem I have, is that I can watch my favorite TV show every week and I only wish I could read a First Class Trip report every week too.