Review of Emirates flight from Dubai to Singapore in Economy

UAE

EK - Emirates

Flight taken on 22 July 2024
EK354
04:15 07h 30m 15:45
Class Economy
Seat 74K
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DIVERSION: 2024 ended on a horrifying note for aviation safety, between the Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on 25 December, with 29 survivors out of 67, and the Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, on 29 December, with just 2 survivors out of 181. While the former crash (J28243) was likely a shootdown by Russia, the latter (7C2216) is the deadliest air crash since the shootdown of PS752 in January 2020. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of all those deceased, as well as the survivors. Combined with the JAL A350 collision at Haneda Airport at the very start of the year, and the Voepass ATR 72 crash in August, there has been one disaster too many. Let’s hope that 2025 has no air incidents and let aviation remain the safest form of travel.

As stated in earlier reports, this was intended to be my last flight report of 2024, but due to severe ill health on the day of the Jeju Air tragedy, I could not bring myself to complete it until well after the New Year.

The next report — which would have been 2025’s first but now will be its second — is an ordinarily-looking but special Malaysia Airlines 737-800, with a lovely quote at the entry door. This was the first time in 6 years that I flew the world’s best-selling aircraft after avoiding it for a long time. (In November 2024 I also flew the 737 MAX for the first time, on Singapore Airlines to Phnom Penh.) In spite of the Jeju Air 737-800 disaster at the very end of 2024 that claimed almost everyone’s lives, these two flights were crucial in reinstating my confidence in flying the 737 wherever necessary.


Dubai photo essay in the Travelling Bonus section at the end. 


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Introduction: The longest flight and the shortest day of my life so far!


After another whirlwind weekend trip, this time around in Dubai in mid-July 2024, it was time to make my return to Singapore on the night-to-afternoon EK354 sector on what else but another A380 of Emirates Airline — but not just any old A380! This one was A6-EUM, a special and unique aircraft — I call it Emirates’ Unique Model — because it was the only one (at the time) to feature a 487-seater configuration with Premium Economy seating. Since then a few more A380s have been fitted with this configuration, one of them being A6-EOF, the A380 on the late-night outbound EK353 sector I’d flown two days before. Moreover, A6-EUM, built and delivered in 2016, was EK’s first A380 with Rolls-Royce engines and also had the latest IFE product with a white-bezelled display.

Too much avgeek stuff already? Let me also mention that this flight was memorable for another reason: it was, at nearly 7.5 hours, the longest flight I’ve ever taken so far — I’ve only ever flown within Asia, where even 5 hours is on the longer side — and that also meant that 22 July 2024 was the shortest day of my life so far due to the time difference and eastbound shortfall, as 4 hours (the difference between Dubai and Singapore) were shaved off. This beat the record set by the outbound EK353 from Singapore, which was 6.5 hours, though during winter months EK353 tends to come closer to the 7.5-hour mark as well.

Let’s not wait any longer, and instead I’ll jump straight into what should have been my last flight report of 2024 — starting at the Gevora Hotel, the Guinness-certified tallest hotel in the world (that’s a lot of superlatives, but this is Dubai after all)!


Flight routing


A midnight departure from the world’s tallest hotel


Sunday, 21 July, night. Earlier in the night, A6-EUM was completing its (her?) return journey from Singapore as EK355, and indeed this aircraft had been operating EK354/355 nonstop for the past several days — and so it would for the next day as well. The two other nighttime EK departures from Singapore — EK353 (which I’d flown two days before) and EK349 (a 777-300ER service continuing from Phnom Penh, Cambodia) — had only just recently departed from Changi.

In another couple of hours’ time, A6-EUM landed once again at DXB after yet another EK354/355 rotation, but…


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…I was more intrigued by this unique visitor: XU-818, one of two A320s at startup AirAsia Cambodia, which was operating a few flights on behalf of beleaguered Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet, which has a not-insignificant presence at Dubai.

However, the Flightradar24 history didn’t add up, as it appeared as though the A320 magically transported itself from its Phnom Penh base to fly to Dubai on 19 July… or were the PNH–SAI (Siem Reap) flights simply not removed from the schedule and the plane was in Dubai for the entire preceding week? A mystery best left unsolved!


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22 July, midnight. After checking out of the Gevora Hotel, my family — who would be spending the rest of the 22nd in Dubai, flying back to Bengaluru on the night A380 service (EK568) — saw me off at the hotel lobby. In a matter of minutes, a regular cream-coloured Toyota Camry turned up, and the hotel porters loaded the luggage into the boot. With my parents and grandmother standing at the porch, I was driven off from the world’s tallest hotel and into the skyscraper-filled black night that permeated Sheikh Zayed Road.


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These were some of the street scenes as we drove out, including a flydubai business-class ad (3rd row below, left) and the unmissable Museum of the Future.


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After heading further north, I came across the Courtyard by Marriott on Al-Hassabi Street with its unmistakable front façade (2nd row below, left) where I’d stayed in June 2022. Obviously not as high as the Gevora, but it looked much more modern from the outside and inside with its understated Western décor; I wouldn’t hesitate to return.

Another round of skyscrapers, and the next thing that came into view was the Dubai Frame, which I’d also visited back then. From that angle, it looks a bit like the National Geographic logo!


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More luxurious buildings, both the ones towering over the night sky and the ones under construction, encircled by huge billboards, A petrol pump here, the Grand Mercure Hotel there, and I had all but reached DXB in 15 minutes flat!


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In another five, I turned up at DXB T3, a colossus of a terminal — though certainly not an award-winning one.  However, who cares when it’s home to the largest single-hub airline in the world, with two massive signboards to prove its giganticity (not sure if that’s a word)?

First the rectangular billboard just after the EK logo: Travel isn’t just about the destination, it’s how you get there. And the the iconic tubular ad: Don’t just fly, fly better. While there are a number of enhancements and improvements to be done, above all the subpar business class — even the latest one on the A350 is nothing compared to the Qatar Qsuite — the fact still remains that EK has long been a trendsetter, and is about as recognisable globally as Pan Am was in the day.


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White lights at night… and some North American partners?!


Once inside, I was taken in by the sweeping bright-white lights all around: from the ceiling to the walls to the Emirates signage. This chic, elegant décor is so much at odds with the blingy, gaudy aesthetic that EK uses in so many places, though it’s started to tone down on that lately.

I went to the self-check-in kiosks — they looked exactly like the ones at Changi — and completed the bag-drop process in maybe 5 minutes, not more.


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As I approached the security screening, however, a couple of standees for Air Canada and United Airlines stood out. This was very unexpected as far as I was concerned, because I was always under the impression that T3 was exclusive to Emirates.

Apparently, the Star Alliance co-founders had relocated here after launching service to DXB in 2023, as part of their Emirates partnerships. UA163 to Newark, AC57 to Toronto and the thrice-weekly ultra-long-haul AC79 to Vancouver were all departing in the next couple of hours.


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Soon enough I cleared the security check and ascended to the upper floor’s departure hall. This is unlike Changi, and most other airports I’ve seen, where check-in and departures are on one floor. As ever, Dubai Duty Free was omnipresent, with all manner of brands and categories.


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The prices at a deli below were not worth the trouble for me, so I skipped it and proceeded past the Five Guys, which was doing a fair bit of heavy advertising around the terminal.


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These are some screenshots from WhatsApp, Google Maps and email from the next couple of hours. As I said, ‘This is a record fast time from hotel to ready for boarding!’


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The Daily DXB: A wide-ranging food court, though a tad overpriced


I chanced upon this multicuisine food court, with stalls designed in a typical street-grungy way. Immediately I knew that I was going to have a late-night dinner-of-sorts here.


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An Asian street-food restaurant caught my fancy, and before long I ordered a Philippine chicken adobo dish (AED 50) from the myriad dishes on offer. The ginger flavour provided a kick, and the spring onions a pungent crunch. All-in-all, good food but a tad more than what I’d pay. (And that old-style newspaper looks cool!)


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At this point these were the aircraft in the air surrounding DXB, with an Air France 777 having lifted off recently; nearby, a Qantas 787 was also headed to Paris, from Perth. Among the more interesting departures was a plain-white A320 of Azerbaijan Airlines, leased from Lithuania’s Heston Airlines. (Azerbaijan suffered a terrible crash on Christmas Day, a likely shootdown by Russia. RIP!)


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Next I went to the atrium area after the food corridor (and the Hard Rock Cafe) which had a bunch of other restaurants and shops.


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Among them were a Boots pharmacy, an Adidas store and an unmissable Victoria’s Secret Pink outlet with huge polka dots.


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Then I returned to Dubai Duty Free, and bought a bunch of chocolates and chocolate dates, including these pink Fazer Geisha chocolates that you see below.


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The C gates: Another towering rabbit warren


Now it was time to take the escalator down a level to a corridor I hadn’t seen before, which would take me to the C gates. This was preceded by a collage for environmental preservation and a quote.


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A number of East Asian flights were taking off shortly, such as EK316 to Osaka–Kansai. Rows and rows of palm trees towered over the travellators. Meanwhile, EK354 to Singapore commenced boarding from Gate C18.


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Ads for Evian and e& (officially Etisalat), among others, continued to play on the overhead screens. In a short while I presented my mobile boarding pass and was good to go. My only complaint was that the gate was too tiny to hold a full A380 of nearly 500 passengers!


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There were a number of interesting observations that I made in my photo captions while on the jetbridge. The flight had diverse nationalities: there were Indians, then there were Europeans (German, Dutch, Italian to name a few), and of course there were East Asians.


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That I would be boarding A6-EUM, Emirates’ Unique Model, was never in doubt, but it was always good to have some confirmation above the door as I entered!


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The flight: Boarding and departure


Flight: Emirates Airline EK354/UAE354
Date: Monday, 22 July 2024
Route: Dubai International (OMDB/DXB) to Singapore Changi (WSSS/SIN)
Aircraft: A6-EUM, Airbus A380 (unique configuration)
Age: 8 years 1 month at the time (first flight: 23 June 2016, delivered: 28 December 2016)
Seat: 74K (window, starboard side)
Boarding: 2:55am Gulf Standard Time (GST), UTC +4 (6:55am SGT, UTC +8)
Departure: 4:20am GST (8:20am SGT)
Arrival: 3:45pm SGT (11:45am GST)
Duration: 7 hours 25 minutes — my longest flight ever

Notes:
• Longest flight ever taken so far, beating the inbound EK353 two days prior (6h30m) by almost a full hour.
• Third flight on the A380, after EK353 and SQ424 to Mumbai in December 2023.
• Fourth flight on Emirates Airline after EK353 and two to and from Chennai (EK545/546) in June 2022.


Behold the elegant ghaf trees on the staircases!


On entering it immediately became clear that this bird had EK’s newest cabin treatment, with elegant shades of dark brown and the motifs of ghaf trees on the staircase wall. I proceeded to my seat, which was (as always) a K-seat by the window, this time in Row 72. On the previous flight it was in Row 86, all the way at the rear.


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The white-bezelled IFE was among the crispest I’ve seen on EK, and reminded me of my first-ever EK flight in June 2022. And where the smartphone-sized handset had a slightly jagged resolution on the previous flight, here it was crystal-clear and razor-sharp. Kudos!


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I fired up the moving map and was immediately given a warm welcome by two sharply-turned-out flight attendants from the screen. Meanwhile passengers continued to fill up, and this took nearly half an hour more, by which time it was 3:30.


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In the seat pocket, as on the previous flight — the lighting was much better this time, hence the clearer pictures — were the safety card and ice entertainment magazine, plus the airsickness bag.


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Too bad only the first few seconds of the below boarding music — this video was released in November 2024 — were played, as this is an iconic tune that’s immediately identifiable with EK.



My mom reminded me to ‘live my dream ❤️’ as I boarded the aircraft, and searched for its details. Again, Planespotters.net confirmed this as the first Rolls-Royce-engined A380 of the world’s largest operator.


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My tourist SIM card, handed out at the immigration counters, was close to exhausting its quota — but not before I’d milked it to the fullest. There were a number of interesting arrivals from the region, such as 9N-AKW, one of two A320s at Nepal Airlines.

And as proof of just how far the 737 MAX 8 can fly, two flights to Malaysia were taking off in short order: flydubai to Penang (continuing to Langkawi) and Batik Air Malaysia to Kuala Lumpur. From Tokyo to Brisbane to (formerly) Auckland, Batik Malaysia stretches its 737 MAXes very far indeed!


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At this point Emirates’ new no-nonsense safety video — ’no celebrities trying to be funny, I’m afraid’ — was screened, first in Arabic and then in English. I could get much better pictures of it this time, thanks to the crisper cabin and display and the lighting being much better than on the previous leg. I’ve already praised it in detail in the previous instalment, so I’m not really going to rehash things here.


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However, come to think of it, I now feel — though I may be wrong on this one — that the video was heavily biased towards British accents (as Gulf airlines are heavily attached to London), with a small smattering of other nationalities including the airline’s native Arab passengers. I did not hear any Indian, American or African, to name a few, accents. Not as diverse as I’d thought!


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This was followed a few minutes later by the introduction to the ice entertainment system, with its enviable plethora of things to do, from games to live TV to news, to shopping to charity donations!


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Passengers were kept waiting for quite some time, all while a Kam Air A340 prepared to return to Kabul. At the coincidential time of 3:54 in the early morning, EK354 finally appeared on Flightradar24, but it would be a while before the wheels would start to turn.


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At long last, well past 4 (over an hour after boading), the cabin lights were dimmed and the coast was cleared for takeoff. I lost no time in taking in the majestic view from the tail cameras, and we started our taxi past a Kenya Airways 737-800 and Airblue (Pakistan) A321neo — of which it only has two.


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A bit more of the DXB traffic closer to takeoff, including A6-EPF, the first EK plane I’d ever flown, in June 2022. A Royal Brunei Airlines 787-8 had also landed from London Heathrow, and would continue its thice-weekly return to Brunei, one of the most underrated countries in Southeast Asia.


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At long last, nearly 90 minutes after I boarded, Emirates’ Unique Model was finally ready to zoom through the runway — the lights making the black runway glow up — and thunder over the night of Dubai, the A380 capital of the world, a city that never sleeps. My longest-ever flight (and consequently my shortest-ever day) had only just started!


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Round one of the meal service… and a feel-good Bollywood movie


Shortly after takeoff a couple of reminders were shown on both the handset and the main screen, asking passengers to browse the inflight menu on their own devices and go through the EmiratesRED shopping catalogue. Sadly, as with the previous flight, the inflight menu did not work on this sector either… something that Singapore Airlines has always managed to get to work (and, on a couple of occasions, even a full menu on the screen!).


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Within an hour after departure, a small snack was handed out: a mini-margherita pizza with a chocolate brownie and Sprite. Not the most filling meal in the world, but I appreciated the gesture.


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The sun was beginning to rise as we flew over the Arabian Sea, about to hit the western Indian coastline. Ooooh, look at the wings of the A380 soaring above the clouds! It was a constant gawk- and gush-fest for me as I continuously cycled amongst the camera and airshow feeds, all while the mood lighting turned a warmer glow of pink.


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I started off with some news headlines before moving to the vast Bollywood selection, hunting for a comfort favourite I could rewatch. (Full resolution here.)


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I gravitated to the Classic Bollywood section, consisting of movies mostly released in 2015/2016 or thereabouts, including the epic mythological saga Baahubali: The Beginning — its 2017 sequel is the second-highest-grossing Indian movie of all time — and the 2016 sports dramas Sultan (fictional, wrestling) and M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (biopic, cricket). (Full resolution here.)

(Another 2016 wrestling biopic, Dangal, remains the highest-grossing Indian movie ever, and none of the latest mega-blockbusters like RRR, Jawan and the latest Pushpa 2: The Rule have come close to dislodging it.)


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Eventually I picked Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), a feel-good, overwrought family comedy-drama set in a cruise liner in the Mediterranean, with a fabulously wealthy Delhi family hosting their 30th anniversary — and in the process playing matchmaker for their adult children with their friends! Man, I loved rewatching this movie on a big A380 screen. 10/10 recommend! (For the record, Gully Boy (2019) [last row above] has the same director, Zoya Akhtar — known for thoughtful portrayals of high-flying upper-class Indians — and with the same lead actor, Ranveer Singh.)

The movie kicked off with a few ads, as is also the case on Singapore Airlines’ KrisWorld, except there the focus is on luxury watches and credit cards. Here the first ad was for Emirati luxury property developer Nakheel, which was as aspirational as you’d expect.
But the next one was as spoiled, rich-brat and party-animal as they come, with hordes of skimpily dressed youngsters (the women in the threadbarest of bikinis) basically having a rowdy gala time by the poolside. The brand: FIVE LUXE JBR, fittingly selling itself as ‘Dubai’s most glam beach resort’.

Mercifully the final ad was for EK’s own latest entertainment offerings, from Godzilla vs Kong: The New Empire to Kung Fu Panda 4 to Wonka.





Now that the movie had started proceedings, I invite you to discover for yourself the vagaries of the most complicated creatures on Earth: humans. Or so went the introduction of the movie, narrated by the family dog, Pluto — voiced by Aamir Khan, one of the country’s most distinguished thespians — who cannot help but wonder just how much he has to deal with the shenanigans of his human owners every day!





Round two: Breakfast, Asian-style, closer to landing


For the next several hours I entertained myself with the movie, and all the laugh-out-loud sequences with its ensemble cast, play out on the screen. It would be at least five hours after departure — or two before arrival (09:15 DXB, 13:15 SIN) — before a full breakfast was served, and this time around (unlike the outbound) a proper Mai Dubai bottle of water went with it.

I went for the Asian-style chicken noodles, having chosen the Western breakfast dish on the late-night outbound, and mmm, it was good! Accompaniments included, among other things, a Nature Valley granola bar, some cut fruits and some sort of yoghurt compote for dessert. That said, given the late-afternoon arrival time, I probably wouldn’t have minded a lunch service either.


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I continued to delight myself with the various angles of the tail cameras, airshow and mood lighting, with both screen and handset playing their part in making the ‘EKxperience’ all that more special. (Full resolution here.)


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For the record, I did not find the flight attendants to be all that memorable: polite, responsive to requests, but that’s about it. Here are some more stills from the movie when the ship docks in the Turkish riviera.


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30 minutes of Flightradar24-from-the-skies luxury before landing


With the Wi-Fi choices being either US$10 for 30 minutes or a hefty US$20 for the full flight, I went for the former option around 1 hour and 30 minutes before arriving in Singapore, so I could get my Flightradar24-while-flying fix! In that short span I squeezed in whatever I could, from some WhatsApp chats (‘you guys having breakfast?’) to tracking my position, which was increasingly close to Singapore.

This always makes me grateful for the free-for-all Wi-Fi that SQ has… with the catch being that many aircraft, like the medium-haul A350 which I usually fly, don’t have coverage over Indian airspace!


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This done, with just an hour to go in the 7.5-hour flight, I finally jumped forward by 4 hours to Singapore time. As I said, this was my shortest day ever — and what a coincidence that this was also my longest flight ever!


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As the film drew to a close, with the male torchbearer of the family setting out to sea and the entire clan in hot pursuit, we were already drawing close to landing at Changi. The timing could not have been better, with all the ships in the seas surrounding Singapore.


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The ever-helpful pop-up display — a picture-in-picture in the bottom corner, an HD airshow feed in the top — was as good a reminder as any that EK, despite its slightly outdated-looking graphics, has one of the most technologically advanced IFEs out there. And the tail camera view in the handset made the travel even sweeter!


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At a quarter to four in the afternoon (7.5 hours after departure) Emirates’ Unique Model, the mighty superjumbo, finally touched down and glided over the Changi runway to come to a well-deserved stop. And so, the longest flight I’d ever flown ended before I even knew it! Meanwhile a Qatar A350-900 (A7-ALZ) in Oneworld colours landed at around the same time.


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A flight so momentous and noteworthy HAD to have a journal entry befitting its stature. So here goes.


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And now the reason why this aircraft was special in the first place… you can see it right there. (Now, of course, things have changed — a few more A380s have been retrofitted with the 487-seater product including premium economy.)


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All-in-all this looked like a very warm and welcoming cabin, and it was only now, when deplaning in broad daylight, that I was able to appreciate Emirates’ seat fabrics, cabin upholstery, finishes and ambience. Given that this plane was equipped for flying much further than seven-odd hours, with crew rests and all, I certainly wouldn’t mind flying it again! Though I’d rather give Etihad and Qatar a chance first… (Well I did fly Qatar in November 2024, but that was just a one-hour hop from Cambodia to Vietnam, so it’s not quite the same.)


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In the warm afternoon glow, I had one final glance at A6-EUM, followed by the KLM 777-300ER beside it, which had arrived from Amsterdam and would now carry on to Denpasar.


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As I turned into Terminal 1, another Emirates plane — a 777-300ER, above — prepared to take off for Phnom Penh on the EK348 leg. I contented myself spotting the various planes, including a Scoot 787-9 in Pikachu colours and Qatar’s Oneworld-liveried A350-900.


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After that it was a very familiar-looking turn down into Terminal 1’s immigration area, where I filled up the digital SG Arrival Card on one of the several iPads in the kiosks and swiped my passport. (Nowadays, certain Changi terminals have passport-free entry, which makes the process all the more convenient.)


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Once past The Shilla Duty Free, one of two Korean duty-free chains at Changi (along with Lotte Duty Free), all I had to do was to collect my luggage from the belt. But I wouldn’t be going home — not yet!


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A brief detour through the Jewel before heading homeward


With plenty of time on hand, I decided to detour through the Jewel Changi, the huge luxury mall attached to Terminal 1, and have dinner there.


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I chanced upon a restaurant that served vegan food, with vegetarian renditions of typically meat-based dishes.


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It was a little pricy, but I felt it was well worth the value — except for a screaming child in the corridors nearby! For what it’s worth, I’d chosen some sort of turmeric rendang curry with rice: a local Southeast Asian dish.


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And then, all too soon, the extended weekend had to come to an end, as I boarded a bus on the 20-minute ride home.


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At barely 6:30 in the evening, the sun was still very much shining brightly, as the bus made a loop through Terminal 4 before continuing via the East Coast Parkway… and then, finally, I was home!


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Product ratings

Airline

Emirates 9.4

  • Cabin9.5 / 10
  • Cabin crew9.0 / 10
  • Entertainment/wifi10.0 / 10
  • Meal/catering9.0 / 10
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Dubai - DXB9.5

  • Efficiency9.5 / 10
  • Access9.0 / 10
  • Services10.0 / 10
  • Cleanliness9.5 / 10
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Singapore - SIN9.1

  • Efficiency9.5 / 10
  • Access9.0 / 10
  • Services8.5 / 10
  • Cleanliness9.5 / 10

Conclusion

All things considered, this flight lived up to the momentous billing it’d set out for itself: a special A380 which would also be my longest flight to date and, moreover, would result in my shortest calendar day. The previous EK A380 flight to DXB was solid, but the fact that it took place entirely during the dead of night prevented me from getting the full Emirates experience. In contrast, A6-EUM was by far the perfect A380 to breach the 7.5-hour mark, with most of the flight taking place during daylight, plus the renovated inflight cabin, slicker IFE and — most importantly — the TAIL CAMERAS! This is something that I miss so badly on SQ, so being able to fly the A380 with such cutting-edge technology, from the handset to the cameras to the entertainment selection, was an important milestone.

However, while the catering would suffice for a short 4-hour sector, I think I was not wrong in expecting slightly more — a second full meal, perhaps, instead of the initial post-takeoff snack — for this 7-hour service. Nevertheless, while I didn’t dedicate as much space above talking about the inflight movie, Dil Dhadakne Do was that sort of feel-good, all’s-well-with-the-world Bollywood flick that reminds you of just how lucky you are to have friends and connections, and was the perfect way to pass the time. Speaking of DXB T3, while it never seems to get any of the awards that Changi and Hamad do, what it has by way of facilities and amenities should be more than enough for such a giant global superconnector hub.

That’s that for my (heavily delayed) flight reports about Dubai, and the next one will finally put some closure on why I finally decided to fly the 737 after years of steering clear of it. Happy New Year 2025!

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Comments (2)

  • Thanks for sharing, this was a nice read

    I also happen to have recently flown Emirates, including their A380, on two regional Middle Eastern flights (https://flight-report.com/en/report/70768/emirates-ek904-amman-amm-dubai-dxb/ and https://flight-report.com/en/report/70769/emirates-ek859-dubai-dxb-kuwait-city-kwi/) and I also wanted to fly EK long haul!

    I did not hear any Indian, American or African, to name a few, accents. Not as diverse as I’d thought!

    I think there was one lady with an Indian accent, but I don't remember any Americans or Africans either.

    Your meals, at least the full one, seem to be a lot better than what I got especially on my second flight.

    For the record, I did not find the flight attendants to be all that memorable: polite, responsive to requests, but that’s about it.

    I agree, they weren't particularly hospitable or friendly.

    Great tourism bonus

    Thanks again for sharing!

  • Thanks for sharing! Any idea where I can find the PDF file you used just after here?

    And now the reason why this aircraft was special in the first place… you can see it right there. (Now, of course, things have changed — a few more A380s have been retrofitted with the 487-seater product including premium economy.)
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