Luxury Travel
Emirates Is Making Its Flying Bar Bigger and Swankier
- Tables and chairs to replace curved leather banquettes
- Saloon-style makeover aims to create ‘yacht-club’ ambience
Emirates on-board lounge. Photographer: David Copeman via Emirates
Flying bars that cater to premium passengers on the world’s biggest fleet of A380 jetliners are set for a saloon-style upgrade as Gulf carrier Emirates seeks to lure affluent travelers amid slowing revenue growth.
Out will go the semicircular benches on which passengers have perched since Emirates introduced the on-board lounges almost a decade ago, to be replaced by an altogether more comfortable setup featuring a table for four located either side of the counter and below the superjumbo’s windows.