Emirates offers especially crafted, nutritionally balanced iftar meals. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
WITH the first weekend of April 2022 marking the official start of the Holy Month of Ramadan, Emirates has, once again, offered its signature Ramadan services onboard and on the ground for its fasting passengers, helping them travel better and catering to their special needs during this important time.
On board from April 2, customers breaking their fast across all cabin classes to select Emirates destinations could expect specially crafted, nutritionally balanced iftar (post-fasting meals), served in bespoke boxes, crafted by the airline’s in-house designers in collaboration with local artists at Mawaheb Art Studio. The meals consisted of freshly prepared, grain-based cold salads and sandwiches, accompanied by a variety of proteins, seedless dates, laban, water and mini Arabic bread, among other iftar essentials.
The boxes were served on flights to select destinations during times that coincided with iftar or sohour (pre-fasting meals) on flights to and from the Gulf region as well as flights catering to Umrah groups, traveling to Jeddah and Medina during the month of Ramadan. In addition, cold meals would be served in lieu of a hot one on all flights to Jeddah and Medina, including Umrah day flights.
To ensure the highest levels of accuracy for fasting Muslim passengers, Emirates used 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 of the flight was passing through by using the aircraft’s longitude, latitude and altitude. When the sun had set, passengers were officially informed of the iftar time by the captain.
For more information, visit https://www.emirates.com/english/help/covid-19/travel-requirements-by-destination/.