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to refurbish before enter- 40 Business Class seats, and refreshed cabins. row, Sydney, Auckland,
ing service. Plans include 260 Economy Class seats. Once the last aircraft rolls Christchurch, Melbourne,
the refurbishment of the To make room for the new out of the retrofit pro- Singapore, Mumbai, Banga-
First-Class cabin, all new Premium Economy cabin, gramme and the project is lore, Sao Paulo and Dubai.
Business Class seats making 50 Economy seats will be fully complete, the airline The airline will be boosting
a debut on the aircraft in removed. will have installed 8,104 services with the new cabin
an updated 1-2-1 seating Refurbishment work for next-generation Premium to Osaka in early June.
configuration, in addition the Emirates fleet is com- Economy seats, 1,894 The airline will be serv-
to 24 of the latest Pre- pletely being managed and refreshed First-Class suites, ing 42 cities with Premium
mium Economy seats, giving executed in-house at the 11,182 upgraded Business Economy by February 2025
customers more premium airline’s Engineering Cen- Class seats and 21,814 with the A350 entering its
options to choose from. tre, with over 250 project Economy Class seats. fleet in September of this
Along with the addition of personnel currently working Emirates currently oper- year, in addition to the newly
the Premium Economy cabin, round the clock, supported ates its refurbished A380 refurbished Boeing 777s
the Emirates Boeing 777 by 31 major partners and aircraft fitted with Premium also slated to begin serving
will be configured with 332 suppliers who have set up Economy to New York JFK, more cities with the highly
seats in four classes, featur- workshops both in the facil- Los Angeles, San Francisco, sought after cabin later this
ing eight First Class suites, ity and offsite to deliver the Houston, London Heath- summer.

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