With the month of Ramadan due to begin, Emirates is preparing services and meals for those travelling during the Holy Month.
#The airline will offer meal boxes for fasting customers both onboard and at boarding gates, screening an array of religious content and popular TV shows on ice, and offering traditional Ramadan dishes in the lounges.
Emirates Iftar boxes at Boarding Gates
For the comfort of fasting customers at select Emirates Boarding Gates during iftar time, complimentary iftar boxes to help break the fast – containing water, laban, a banana, and dates are distributed.
Emirates Ramadan Meal Boxes onboard
From the month of Ramadan, customers breaking their fast across all cabin classes to select destinations will be offered nutritionally balanced Ramadan meal boxes. Iftar meals will be served in bespoke boxes, designed by Emirates to represent the geometric design that features in traditional Islamic art.
The meal boxes will include light bites of hummus or moutabel with Arabic bread, sweet treats of almond chocolate, walnut baklawa, apricot ball and traditional dates, alongside a chicken zaatar and mozzarella cheese wrap or lamb shawarma and halloumi cheese wrap, washed down with some laban to help customers break their fast.
Emirates’ Ramadan boxes are served in addition to the regular hot meal service.
Ramadan refreshments in the lounges
At the Emirates Lounges in Dubai International Airport, an array of Arabic sweets, dates and coffee will be offered during Ramadan.
Traditional dishes available in First and Business Class lounges will include a selection of hot and cold Arabic mezze, lentil soup, Arabic mixed grill with tahina, lamb mandi served with dakous and coriander mint raita, chicken machboos served with cucumber yoghurt sauce and desserts of pistachio kunafa, halawet al jibn, esh bulbul with lotus, basboussa ashta, cheese kunafa, walnut kathayef, chocolate baklava, homemade Arabic coffee and dates ice cream or baklawa ice cream, a host of traditional Arabic sweets and pastries, and classic drinks of jallab and laban.
Emirates Lounges in Cairo and Jeddah will also serve an array of Ramadan dishes.
The lounges have dedicated prayer rooms and ablution facilities to ensure a peaceful environment for worship.
Captain announcements of Iftar time
To ensure the highest levels of accuracy for fasting Muslim passengers, Emirates uses a unique tool to calculate the correct timings for imsak (the time to commence fasting) and iftar while in-flight, based on the times of the sunrise and sunset of the location the flight is passing by using the aircraft’s longitude, latitude, and altitude.
When the sun sets, passengers will be officially informed of the iftar time by the captain.
Supporting those on Umrah
Ramadan boxes will be served on flights catering to Umrah groups travelling to Jeddah and Medina during the month of Ramadan.
Passengers are also entitled to check in one bottle of Islamic holy water ‘ZAMZAM’ containing up to 5 litres per person at Dubai International Airport and various airports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Supporting those whilst travelling
With the time of Ramadan, Emirates is supporting its travellers on the ground and in the air with passenger experience services to help them – be it the boxes for Iftar, annoucing timings and supporting those who are carrying out Umrah.
Travel sometimes isn’t the easiest thing – so having those services supporting those who are observing holy times is an important thing.
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