Emirates Boeing 777-300ER (new) First Class Dubai to Brussels

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Immediately: Emirates Boeing 777-300ER new First Class Dubai to Brussels.

Final March, I flew in an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER that includes the provider’s latest and game-changing First Class product from Dubai (DXB) to Brussels (BRU). With floor-to-ceiling sliding doorways, digital home windows, a totally flat mattress with zero-gravity place, and a glossy design impressed by Mercedes-Benz, Emirates’ new B777 First Class suite takes luxurious and privateness to the subsequent degree. Emirates’ new First Class is barely out there on a small subfleet of B777-300ER plane which function a restricted variety of routes. It’s unclear if Emirates plans to retrofit its present B777 and A380 fleet with the brand new First Class suites resulting from exorbitant prices (upwards of $30 million USD per plane).

Have you ever ever flown in Emirates’ First Class? What was your expertise? Go away a remark beneath.

• Journey: Dubai (DXB) to Brussels (BRU)
• Airline: Emirates
• Plane kind: Boeing 777-300ER
• Plane registration quantity: A6-EQP
• Flight Quantity: EK181
• On time departure: sure (2 pm)
• On time arrival: sure (:30 pm)
• Miles: 3200
• Flight time: 7 hours
• Seat: 1K
• Class: First Class

On this assessment (extra info & images beneath my Youtube clip & slideshow):

1. Emirates First Class Lounge at Dubai Airport
2. Details & figures about Emirates’ longhaul fleet
3. First Class cabin
4. First Class suite (+ finest & worst suites)
5. Facilities
6. Meals
7. Leisure
8. Onboard web
9. Different inflight experiences (views, crew, bathroom)
10. My verdict (rating)

1. EMIRATES FIRST CLASS LOUNGE AT DUBAI AIRPORT

All Emirates flights arrive and depart from Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai Worldwide airport, at the moment the world’s largest airport terminal, with over 1,713,000 m2 (18,440,000 sq ft) of house. This terminal includes two concourses: Concourse A (the world’s first A380 purpose-built facility, accommodating 20 air bridge gates) and Concourse B. Each concourses characteristic Enterprise and First Class lounges. My flight departed from Concourse A, so this can be a assessment of the Concourse A First Class lounge solely.

The Emirates First Class lounge in Dubai is without doubt one of the most spacious, distinctive and modern lounges on the earth. In truth’s, it’s extra of an ultra-luxe concourse floating above the terminal’s floor ground moderately than an outlined house such as you discover in different First Class lounges all over the world. The lounge is gigantic because it spreads the whole size of the terminal, providing direct entry to most gates with multi-level boarding. Instantly behind the lounge’s elegant reception space is a gallery lined by high-end, duty-free boutique outlets, together with manufacturers corresponding to Tiffany&Co and Chopard. From there, two walkways run alongside each side of the lounge, providing a pleasant view of the terminal’s floor ground beneath, and with loads of seating areas alongside the best way, most of them centered across the gates. On the reverse aspect of the lounge, the 2 walkways converge into the primary seating space, which encompasses a beautiful chandelier.

Most seating areas within the First Class lounge include their very own meals stations, with meals various from mild snacks, sandwiches and sushi, to desserts and cheese spreads. The principle restaurant with its semi-open kitchen is positioned midway the lounge, and affords each a la carte eating and an diverse buffet. The restaurant atmosphere doesn’t really feel very cozy nor intimate, because of the terminal’s extremely excessive ceilings with gigantic pillars seeming to succeed in for the skies.

Emirates First Class passengers may take pleasure in complimentary spa therapies on the Timeless Spa, which is positioned subsequent to the First Class lounge’s entrance. The lounge additionally encompasses a enterprise heart, a trendy adorned cigar room, a wine cellar, and two sleeping rooms (every that includes a dozen day beds).

It’s fairly insane that this ridiculously overwhelming house and the massive variety of seats accommodate just a few First Class passengers, however I suppose that’s what Emirates goals to succeed in: impress their First Class passengers and make them really feel very privileged.

As already talked about, the lounge has direct gate entry. When it was time to board, a workers member scanned my boarding move, after which I took the elevator all the way down to the Boeing 777’s jet bridge.

2. FACTS & FIGURES ABOUT EMIRATES’ LONGHAUL FLEET

Emirates is by far the biggest Boeing 777 & Airbus A380 operator on the planet.

• Emirates has a complete of 121 A380s in its fleet, together with the final one ever to be constructed. It has been usually argued that Emirates is the one airline to profitably function the airplane. Actually the position of the A380 in constructing visitors at bustling Dubai Worldwide Airport, the world chief in worldwide vacationers with 88 million, is simple, as they’re a terrific match for the airline’s enterprise mannequin of shifting massive numbers of passengers on its long-haul flights. On the 2021 Dubai Airshow in November, Emirates additionally introduced a serious retrofit program which can see 52 of its present A380 plane fitted with Premium Economic system cabins and different enhancements, highlighting the airline’s ongoing dedication to making sure its A380 expertise stays best-in-sky.
• Emirates has 134 Boeing 777s in its fleet, one of the standard and superior wide-bodied plane in business operation as we speak. The airline welcomed the primary Boeing 777-300ER plane into its fleet in March 2005 and over the past twenty years years, the 777-300ER has turn out to be the spine of Emirates’ fleet working at the moment to over 119 locations throughout the airline’s international community. Emirates has operated one out of each 5 Boeing 777-300ER plane produced to this point and the typical age of a Boeing 777-3000ER in Emirates’ fleet is a mere 6.5 years.

3. FIRST CLASS CABIN

Emirates’ latest B777-300ER planes characteristic solely 6 First Class suites organized in 1-1-1 structure: two window suites on both sides and two suites within the center aisle. That’s a 20% downscale in comparison with Emirates’ B777s with the outdated structure, which characteristic eight First Class suites (4 alongside the home windows and 4 organized within the heart).

The cabin itself feels a little bit claustrophobic and the aisle may be very slim, however that’s as a result of the six suites – each providing as much as 40 sq ft (3,7 sq m) of non-public house – take many of the cabin’s house. The suites are so massive that they’ve ample house to alter within the privateness of your suite even after the mattress has been made.

Essentially the most exceptional cabin characteristic outdoors the suites is a powerful creative motif printed on the entrance wall of the primary center suite, which represents the Ghaf (prosopis cineraria) tree, a determine that’s used as a design spotlight all through the plane. An indigenous evergreen plant, the Ghaf is a thought of the nationwide tree of the United Arab Emirates, and has deep cultural and ecological significance.

4. FIRST CLASS SUITE (+ BEST & WORST SEATS)

I had chosen suite 2K for the 7 hour flight from Dubai to Brussels.

Every suite is totally enclosed with floor-to-ceiling sliding doorways, a primary within the airline business. This creates a degree of privateness in any other case skilled solely on a personal jet. Opposite to Emirates’ older B777 and A380 First Class suites – which have a whole lot of walnut veneer and gold trim of their design  – the brand new B777 First Class suite encompasses a glossy inside with a soothing coloration palette of soppy greys, cream and champagne, conveying a up to date, open and ethereal really feel. Above the suite’s three home windows (which characteristic trendy curtains as a substitute of conventional blends) in addition to on the suite’s entrance wall, there’s a motif of the Ghaf tree.

The suite’s structure is similar to Emirates’ outdated First Class product (which I reviewed right here). It has an ergonomic mushy leather-based seat at its heart, which might be adjusted by a management panel within the arm relaxation into dozens of customized positions for optimum consolation, together with the totally flat-bed place (a mattress of 86 inches or 218 cm lengthy with retractable armrest). The suite’s aspect (in direction of the aisle) encompasses a private wardrobe, which is massive sufficient to hold a jacket or coat. The wardrobe’s exterior wall has one other management panel, which lets you regulate the suite’s temperature and lighting. On the opposite aspect of the seat (in direction of the home windows), you discover a pill and one other management panel, which can be utilized to command the inflight leisure system and even to video name ‘room service’ (extra on that beneath).

In entrance of the seat is a 32-inch full HD LCD TV display screen. There’s a non-cooled minibar on one aspect of the TV (containing non-alcoholic drinks) and a small cupboard on the opposite (with a glass and a bottle of Evian water). Beneath the TV display screen is a big desk, which has an arrogance unit on the within (with mirror, writing package, and an “inspiration package’ with Breydo skincare merchandise). The suite’s massive tray desk is hidden beneath that desk and it’s worthwhile to pull on a robe-like bar in entrance of you to launch the tray desk and slide it in direction of you. Beneath the desk is a whole lot of open house and one other cabinet to retailer private belongings and hand baggage through the flight.

There are refined variations with Emirates’ outdated First Class suite, corresponding to the placement of the personal minibar on each side of the TV display screen as a substitute of within the arm relaxation, however general, the brand new B777 First Class suite’s structure feels very comparable. That mentioned, the brand new First Class suite does characteristic some new spectacular design parts:

• The mushy leather-based seat reclines into a totally flat-bed that may be positioned in a ‘zero-gravity‘ place impressed by NASA expertise, giving a sense of leisure and weightlessness, much like what astronauts expertise onboard spacecraft.
• To make sure all First Class passengers have a view, Emirates launched the business’s first digital home windows for the 2 suites positioned within the center aisle. These digital home windows mission the view from outdoors the plane utilizing real-time expertise with fibre-optic cameras. Wow! That is most likely the primary airplane the place I would like an aisle seat over a window seat.
• Passengers can simply talk with the cabin crew or request ‘room service’ utilizing a video name operate on the suite’s pill (much like a 5-star resort).
• The suite comes with a service window the place you might be served drinks and canapes undisturbed after closing the floor-to-ceiling sliding doorways.
• The suite options spectacular temperature & LED lighting controls. There are totally different lighting themes out there (with adjustment of the brightness inside every theme), starting from crimson, orange and yellow to inexperienced, blue and purple. Your chosen color will seem all through your suite, corresponding to on the floor-level temper lighting, behind and across the curtains, and within the wall sample.

What are the finest First Class seats on Emirates’ new B777?

• All six suites within the First Class cabin are equally glorious (particularly for the reason that center seats characteristic digital home windows, permitting a view for all First Class passengers).

What are the worst First Class seats on Emirates’ Airbus A380?

• There aren’t any unhealthy seats in Emirates’ new B777 First Class cabin. That mentioned, {couples} or journey companions might need to select the pair of suites 1A & 1E or 2K & 2F since these suites have their entrances positioned in entrance of one another (so you’ll be able to nonetheless talk with one another once you go away the doorways of those suites open).

5. AMENITIES

Emirates First Class passengers obtain the next facilities:

• Emirates affords an ‘inspiration package‘ with Breydo skincare merchandise to its First Class passengers. The package, which is hidden within the desk’s self-importance unit, features a cleaning face towelette, facial toner, eye cream, chamomile roll-on sleep oil and chamomile pillow mist spray.
• Emirates’ First Class pajamas are the world’s first moisturizing sleepwear vary to ever be developed for an airline. Designed to forestall pores and skin dehydration, the pajama’s cloth is crafted with using pure substances – Shea Buter and Argan Oil – that are launched with each movement, maintaining your pores and skin moisturized and guarded. The patented Microcapsule Know-how locks within the pure advantages, permitting you to scrub the pajamas and use them once more them once more. Catering to feminine and male sizes – the pajamas are available 4 sizes and in a jersey journey pack. The darkish gray males’s pajamas include vast leg pant and ribbed collar, whereas the feminine’s pajamas are available a light-weight gray tapered pant and reverse darker coloration collar. Slippers are supplied as properly.
• The inflight leisure expertise is enhanced with model new Bowers & Wilkins Energetic Noise Cancelling E1 headphones. These headphones had been designed completely for Emirates to make sure the sound was optimized for the First Class cabin. The headphones are light-weight and product of aluminium and sheepskin leather-based for a snug match. You can’t take the headphones with you after the flight since they will solely be powered inside a airplane.
• Within the suites positioned alongside the actual home windows, binoculars are supplied in case you need to discover the sky outdoors their home windows.
• If you need to sleep, the crew supplies flip down service and can make up your mattress with glorious bedding and plush pillows. This features a cream coloured, furry blanket, which – when opened – has armholes and pockets to maintain fingers and toes heat. The blanket may also be transformed right into a journey pillow, offering consolation and help for the neck.

Sadly, an amenity package was not supplied on this medium-haul day flight.

6. FOOD & BEVERAGES

After boarding, I used to be supplied Arabic espresso, dates, and a sizzling towel. The crew additionally put a basket with a number of snacks on the desk, which was eliminated throughout takeoff and touchdown.

Lunch was served shortly after takeoff (though as a First Class passenger, you might have your meal at any time through the flight). I select the next choice from the spectacular menu:

The meals tasted glorious and was properly introduced. The caviar was an absolute spotlight!

Shortly earlier than touchdown, I ordered some extra objects from the menu for dinner:

7. ENTERTAINMENT

Emirates leisure system, referred to as ICE (info, communications, leisure) is one of the best within the business, albeit a bit overwhelming when you’re utilizing it for the primary time. You might have three choices on how one can management the system: touching the display screen (problematic given the seat pitch), utilizing a small wired distant, or utilizing a touch-screen monitor that’s in regards to the measurement of a small pill.

ICE has an in depth vary of new-release and basic movies, tv exhibits, field units and audio choices to select from. You possibly can select from as much as 1,800 channels of the newest and best films and must-see TV exhibits, on demand and in a number of languages. It’s also possible to calm down to music from all over the world or play a spread of enjoyable video games. There’s even satellite tv for pc TV on provide (CNN, BBC World, and Sport 24).

My favourite ICE characteristic is the skin digicam that you may entry in your display screen. Emirates’ B777s are outfitted with two cameras: one going through ahead and as soon as going through straight down (no tail digicam like on the A380). When not in a window seat, it may be good to observe the plane’s takeoff through the cameras.

8. ONBOARD INTERNET

Emirates affords a number of WiFi plans

• Limitless chat. Connect with all of your favourite textual content apps for the entire flight
  • USD 2.99 ‑ USD 5.99 relying on the size of the flight
  • Chat utilizing WhatsApp, iMessage, Fb Messenger, WeChat, Line or Viber with textual content‑solely service
• Wi‑Fi web for the entire flight: $ 9.99 – 19.99 USD relying on the size of the flight
• Simple join ‑ out there in chosen areas: $ 9.99 USD for half-hour with no knowledge restrict

Emirates Skywards members can make the most of free Wi‑Fi companies (to ensure to enroll in this system earlier than boarding your flight).

• Free limitless chat: use WhatsApp, Messenger and different textual content companies free of charge as an Emirates Skywards Blue, Silver or Gold member touring in Enterprise Class or an Emirates Skywards Gold member touring in Economic system Class.
• Free Wi‑Fi web for the entire flight: take pleasure in free Wi‑Fi all through your flight as an Emirates Skywards member touring in First Class or a Platinum member touring in Enterprise Class.

To make use of the free Wi‑Fi companies, you could add your Emirates Skywards membership quantity to your reserving not less than 24 hours earlier than your flight.

9. OTHER INFLIGHT EXPERIENCES

#CREW: the crew throughout this flight was glorious (as is at all times the case with Emirates). There have been two crew members that took care of the one two passengers within the First Class cabin. They nearly made me neglect I used to be flying (though I’m a nervous flyer), and genuinely talked about how they liked working for Emirates.

# LAVATORY: there are two decently sized toilets for First Class passengers within the galley behind the cockpit. Each toilets had been saved very clear through the flight.

# VIEWS: we loved clear climate for many of the journey, leading to some nice views (particularly above japanese Iraq).

10. MY VERDICT

• Cabin design: 10/10
• Seat consolation (upright): 10/10
• Seat consolation (mattress place): 10/10
• Meals (high quality):  9/10
• Meals (amount): 10/10
• Inflight leisure : 10/10
• WiFi: 8/10
• Service: 10/10
• General expertise: distinctive: 9,5/10

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