Emirates is known for celebrating festivals onboard and on its lounges and this year was no different. Celebrating the occasions of both Catholic Easter in March and Orthodox Easter in May, the Emirates served traditional lamb and an array of chocolate desserts in the lounges, hot cross buns and Easter bread onboard, sweet surprises for kids, and all the latest and greatest new family-friendly movies on ice. Let’s splurge into Emirates Easter Bonanza.
Easter treats served onboard
Emirates customers enjoyed a sumptuous selection of Easter treats ranging from hot cross bun or Easter bread with their meal, or a delicious Easter dessert of carrot cake with an indulgent très leches sauce for Economy class passengers to chocolate cake garnished with creamy ganache and redcurrants, or a strawberry cheesecake dotted with an elegant mini-Easter egg for First, Business, and Premium Economy class.
The special Easter Menu was a part of Emirates Easter celebrations from March 29 to March 31, 2024, on flights to Australia, the USA, Canada, Europe, the UK, Brazil, the Philippines, South Africa, Mauritius, and Ghana.
Kids in all classes received a brightly colored ‘Happy Easter’ biscuit shaped like an Easter egg. In the A380 Onboard Lounge, customers relished traditional Easter simnel fruitcake with marzipan.
As a part of the Orthodox Easter celebrations from May 5 to May 7, 2024, Emirates will provide the traditional herb-crusted lamb for Easter, served with crispy roasted potatoes, baby carrots, and tzatziki sauce, followed by Easter cake, also known as Kulich bread on Dubai to Russia, Cyprus, and Greece, especially for first and business passengers
Across Emirates’ global network of lounges between 29 March and 1 April, customers enjoyed classic Easter fare in most locations. In the First-Class lounges of Dubai, customers relished tender lamb chops, roasted potatoes, and vegetables, or a rich lamb stew with potatoes, carrots, and dried fruits in the Business Class lounge. Both lounges featured an assortment of Easter-themed cookies and an abundance of Easter chocolate from chocolate pots to homemade milk chocolate ice cream, to chocolate gateaux.
Entertainment for Easter on ice
Emirates passengers flying over Easter enjoyed a world-class entertainment library on ice with more than 6,500 channels, including up to 2,000 movies and many 2024 Academy Award-winning movies like Oppenheimer, Zone of Interest, American Fiction, and Anatomy of a Fall. New releases onboard in April include The Color Purple, The Lesson, Napoleon, Freud’s Last Session, The Taste of Things, and May-December.
The airline also had a huge movie collection for kids and kids at heart including Disney Classics, Marvel Studios, and Wizarding World, featuring the complete Harry Potter film series and Harry Potter TV specials, as well as preschool kids’ TV shows from CBeebies, Cartoon Network and more.
