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Emirates
will be expanding its schedules across the region with 19 additional flights
during the upcoming Eid Al Fitr holiday period.
This
year, more than 150,000 customers are expected to fly with the airline during
Eid Al Fitr across the region, with additional flights planned from Jeddah,
Kuwait, Beirut and Amman.
Emirates
will add an extra seven flights to Jeddah from 7-13 April. The additional
flights will provide Emirates customers with more flexibility to venture out to
popular destinations like Dubai, London, the Maldives, or visit family and
friends in Colombo and Karachi.
In
Kuwait, Emirates will be layering on six extra flights between 7-20 April,
catering to the significant travel demand during that time to popular leisure
gateways like Dubai, Bangkok, Osaka, as well as providing the opportunity for
travellers to head home to Chennai, Hyderabad, Sialkot and Peshawar.
Emirates’ flight schedule to Bahrain will also expand to 22 weekly flights
starting 2 May to meet increased demand for travel to/from the Kingdom.
With
families coming together to celebrate after the Holy Month, the airline will
also be adding four additional flights onto Amman and two additional flights
for Beirut scheduled to accommodate for more travellers.
Upholding
Eid traditions and keeping in with its proud Middle Eastern heritage, the
airline will be serving a specially crafted Eid menu for customers for flights
departing from Dubai. Favourites like chicken biryani and lamb
kibbeh labanieh, machbous and vanilla and rose mousse cake will be served
onboard, among other savoury and sweet dishes.
A
variety of content will be available on ice for those travelling over
Eid al Fitr, from up to 6,500 channels of on-demand entertainment and more than
2,000 movies from around the world. This includes more than 100 Arabic films,
including new releases - Amakor, El Saf El Akheer and Al Masafa
and Sefr. There are 46 channels of Arabic TV series including Chef
Bel Beit, Lo’bat Al Hayah and series from Shahid including Batn El Hout, Seeb
Wa Ana Aseeb and El Ghareeb. Emirates customers can also enjoy
15 channels of Arabic podcasts and audiobooks, The Holy Qur’an, and more than
500 channels of Arabic music including pop, classics, Khaleeji, Maghrebi and
Arabic fusion.
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Credit: © Emirates Airlines
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