UAE Business: Emirates launches full Premium Economy experience – Gulf Digital News

  • Date: 09-May-2022
  • Source: Gulf Digital News
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:UAE
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UAE Business: Emirates launches full Premium Economy experience – Gulf Digital News

Emirates has unveiled its full Premium Economy offering onboard and on ground, announcing that it will open this highly sought-after cabin for sale from June 1, 2022.

The new cabin class, which offers luxurious seats, more legroom, and a service to rival many airlines’ business offering, will be available to Emirates customers travelling on popular A380 routes to London, Paris, Sydney from August 1, and Christchurch from December, revealed Emirates at Arabian Travel Market (ATM) which opened today in Dubai.

Emirates is the only airline in the region to offer a Premium Economy cabin, it said.

Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said: "As with everything we do, Emirates Premium Economy will be exceptional in its class, with minute attention given to every aspect of the customer experience. Customers trading up from Economy will be getting excellent value.

"Since we first introduced our Premium Economy seats in January 2021, the positive response and demand has been tremendous. We currently have six A380s equipped with this cabin class, which limits our initial deployment, but our intention is to offer this experience to many more markets across our network. This November, we will begin our retrofit programme to install Premium Economy on 67 A380s and 53