Flying with Emirates

I have to say Emirates has very good service on board and also throughout check-in and transit. At least, the quality of their service on board the economy cabin which we were in was much much better than Singapore Airlines or Lufthansa (the only 2 airlines which I have flown long distance with a infant/toddler in tow).

My only grouse was, although the little one is below 2 years old and therefore do not need to purchase her own seat, she was too heavy for the bassinet which had a max weight of 11kgs!

We were very fortunate to have empty seats on our SIN-DBX and DBX-JFK route, so Miss K had a seat all to herself. That allowed her to sleep pretty well on both legs of the flight.

On our way back, we had a full flight for both legs, so, we had a really horrible time trying to make ourselves and our little one who has to  (and sleep) on our lap comfortable throughout the whole duration of the flight.

Dubai airport is neat. They have these free Maclaren stroller for toddlers 3 years and below. You will see it at soon as you walk from the aerobridge into the terminal. Very convenient for transit passengers like us.

They also have a transit lounge were passengers on transit (at least in Terminal 1) can sit and have some food and drinks (free of charge) and surf the net (free of charge too). One just has to show their boarding pass.

The range of toys and enterntainment materials for children on board the flight were also more varied. They had bagpacks, colouring and activity booklets, colouring pencils and these hand puppets:

Our collection of the little Emirate "friends".

We were hoping for a cow to complete the collection!

The air stewardess were also going around taking polaroid photos of the kids on board. We had one made into a little booklet (which I have no clue where it is right now, the hubs might have lost it!) and this one which was made into a photoframe.

All in all, very good service with a smile, two thumbs up for Emirates. My airline of choice for now.