Like previous years, travelers will be provided signature Iftar service on Emirates flights this year too. The special boxes of Iftar service have been redesigned in look and content for select flights by Emirates to and from the Middle East cities. This seasonal and festive service has been a mainstay of the airline for more than 20 years. Those observing Ramadan can break the fast on board while flying.

This year, Emirates Airlines’ Iftar meal boxes come with a whole new menu designed by the airline’s chefs. The menu features some authentic flavors of the Middle East and retains a global essence at the same time. The Ramadan special boxes pack in za’atar chicken with hummus, spinach fatayer, halloumi cheese, cucumber sandwiches, dates, yogurt and traditional sweets like mammoul.

Iftar service on Emirates flights comes also with snack boxes which will be provided to passengers at boarding gates of origin airports so that they can break their fast while or before boarding the plane. The Iftar special snack boxes pack in Arabic sweets like baklava and pastries like cheese fatayer. Travellers will receive these boxes prior to Imsak.

Both meal and snack boxes will contain a small packet of dates, which is unique to the Islamic culture of Ramadan. As part of Emirates Airlines’ Iftar service for the holy month of Ramadan, cold meals will be served in place of hot ones on all flights to Medina and Jeddah in the Gulf region.

Passengers on Emirates flights to and from the Gulf countries will be entertained with popular Arabic movies like Zinzana and Omar wa Salwa during the holy month. The airline’s award-winning inflight entertainment system will also screen programs of the Holy Quran Channel.

Emirates Airlines will calculate the exact Ramadan timing based on the aircraft’s longitude, latitude and altitude in a region that it will fly through and inform passengers of the Iftar time accordingly, using a particular tool.

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Oman Air’s ‘Service by Design’ with the tagline ‘Choose Your Own Chef’ adds to the luxury of inflight dining on Oman Air flights in first class. Premium passengers can pick their favorites from a wide range of dishes from international cuisines to compose special meals for themselves on long-haul flights from Muscat to London, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.

Designed by award-wining chefs, Oman Air food menus are available on the airline’s website. The first class passengers can craft their meals on Oman Air flights according to their dietary preferences and taste buds by visiting the website. The inflight menus include dishes from some of the major destinations in Oman Air’s global network.  Meal choices range from vegetarian to halal to diabetic to others.

Dishes are exclusively cooked with the finest and fresh ingredients, irrespective of first class passengers’ personalized meals. Taste of the dishes varies from season to season since Oman Air food menus are reviewed, revised and changed from time to time. The biggest advantage of Oman Air’s ‘Service by Design’ is that passengers can review or change or cancel their personally crafted meals within 24 hours prior to departure.

The ‘Service by Design’ facility to let passengers compose their own meals on Oman Air flights is the brainchild of the airline’s creative inflight dining team that had earned accolades from top culinary magazines for designing an exclusive first class menu for Muscat to London flights. It is expected to get Oman Air a competitive edge over other airlines in first class travel on the same routes.

Oman Air’s inflight dining service by design with the slogan ‘Choose Your Own Chef’ will be gradually rolled out in all first class cabins on long-haul flights across the airline’s global network.

Get ready to travel on cheap first class flights from USA to Bangkok, London, Muscat and other major destinations by Oman Air and enjoy Oman Air’s first class dining over your self-created meals.

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Delta Airlines tapped into the popularity of New York’s Union Square restaurants in a bid to compete with other international airlines that are pampering premium flyers with a gamut of luxuries like inflight spa treatment, restaurant-like dining, free cups of brand coffee, and inflight screening of Star Wars films. How luxurious airlines’ inflight services are in premium classes is no more a secret.

Delta Air Lines chose inflight food to gain an advantage over its competitors. The alliance with Union Square Hospitality Group that owns such brand restaurants as Shake Shake, Blue Smoke, Gramercy Tavern, and Union Square Café across New York is expected to serve food on Delta flights as an unforgettable experience for Delta One customers.

The purpose is to treat passengers in the Delta One cabin with topnotch restaurant-like hospitality on board. “We want Delta One flyers to say not just ‘This is great food’ but ‘This is great food on an airline,’” exulted John Harenda, Vice President for operations at Union Square Hospitality group. Allison Ausband, Senior Vice President for inflight service at Delta Air Lines, agreed with John Harenda in saying, “We really want to change the conversation around food on Delta flights for premium flyers.”

It is not easy to redefine inflight dining service and that too for premium travelers. Usually plates and containers to serve food on board are small. High altitude affects sensibility of taste buds. Recipes must be in tune with inflight circumstances, according to Carmen Quagliata, the Union Square Café Chef, who has designed the menu for Delta One food.

Delta Airlines’ alliance with Union Square Hospitality Group resulted from the success of a menu that the master chef of Blue Smoke had created for a few Delta flights in 2013. Barbequed meats from Blue Smoke’s menu did wonder to the taste buds on board. The new Delta One menu from Chef Carmen Quagliata’s repertoire will be launched on Delta flights from New York on March 1.

Delta Airlines wanted Chef Carmen Quagliata to add a pasta dish from Union Square Café to the Delta One menu, but he was doubtful about the taste of pasta dishes which are usually reheated on flights. So he brainstormed the recipe of a baked pasta dish for Delta One passengers. Thus the food on Delta flights for Delta One cabin became an innovation in the end.

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