It’s coming up to the Holy Month of Ramadan, with Emirates showing off its offerings for the month ahead, whilst they support travellers.
Emirates Iftar boxes at Boarding Gates
For the comfort of all fasting customers, complimentary iftar boxes to help break the fast containing water, laban, a banana, and dates are distributed at select Emirates Boarding Gates during iftar time.
Emirates Ramadan meal boxes and prayer mats onboard
For 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 are served in bespoke boxes designed by Emirates to represent the geometric design of traditional Islamic art. The meal boxes include traditional dates, light bites of hummus, moutabel or muhammara with Arabic bread, a hearty chicken mossakan sandwich or herbed chicken sandwich, sweet treats of chocolate almonds, baklawa pistachio mamoul or baklawa pine seed cashew, and laban.
Emirates’ Ramadan boxes are served in addition to the regular hot meal service.
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.
Emirates also has special keepsake prayer mats on all flights, which are available by request to Cabin Crew.
Ramadan refreshments in the lounges
Across the 7 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 kabsa, chicken machboos with cucumber yoghurt sauce, lamb shanks ouzi with hashweh rice and dakous, followed by desserts of pistachio kunafa, kathayef cream, basbousa saffron, kitta cheesecake, cheese kunafa, walnut kathayef, homemade Arabic coffee and dates ice cream or baklawa ice cream, a host of traditional Arabic 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.
In-Flight Content for Ramadan
For the duration of the Holy Month, Emirates ice will feature special religious content, including Kheir Qodwa, Qalb Al Mo’men, Wa Yatoub Allah Alaykom, Al Huqooq Al Sharaeya, and Nafhat in Arabic. In Urdu, ice will feature Ramadan Mah e Rehmat andHoshyarian. The Holy Qur’an is also available on ice.
Popular series and dramas will be available, such as Ma Taraho Laysa Kama Yabdo, Febrayer Al Aswad and Al Mtwassf, as well as Hazza. Amongst more than 6500 channels of on-demand entertainment on ice, there are up to 450 channels of movies and TV in the Arabic language, as well as 400 channels of Arabic music and podcasts.
Supporting Emirates customers on Umrah
For Umrah groups travelling to Jeddah and Medina during the Holy Month, Ramadan boxes will be served in-flight. Customers are also entitled to check in one bottle of ‘ZAMZAM’ – Islamic holy water containing up to 5 litres per person at Dubai International Airport (DXB) and various airports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Supporting those whilst travelling
During 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, announcing 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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