One of the secrets of Emirates success is our cabin crews’ attention to personal service but the department’s basic statistics also make interesting reading. We have approximately 2,800 cabin crew from 83 different countries from America to Australia, from Sweden to South Africa, from Austria to Zimbabwe with sizeable contingents from Egypt, France, Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, Lebanon, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and the UK.

By the year 2010, we expect to have about 9,000 cabin crew and are actively recruiting 22-year-olds looking for a career in aviation.

We served 10 million meals in 12 months, including 1,286,000 bottles of wine in Economy Class and 183,000 in First and Business Class.

On each aircraft we carry 40,000 different pieces of galley equipment, including cups, glasses, meal trays, an excellent range of duty free goods plus meals and beverages, altogether weighing 4.5 tonnes for each aircraft.
Menus are designed to meet a wide variety of tastes and are planned three months in advance. This gives our chefs time to visit some 30 flight kitchens around the world to select dishes and ensure they meet our high standards. We provide choices of oriental dishes to the Far East, spicy Asian-style meals to the sub-continent, German dishes to German destinations...in fact we try to tailor the meals according to the destination and expected mix of passenger nationalities per flight.