I am not a frequent flyer, I probably average about two flights in an year. If I am lucky it is one domestic and one international. In 2009 I managed to fly Emirates again after 8 years. In 2001 I took an Emirate flight from New Delhi India to Athens via Dubai. I had liked my experience then, I liked it again.
When I was going to Athens by some mistake they had booked my meals as Vegan and it was a sheer torture to see my fellow passengers polishing off pastries and stuff and I always got fruits. No such mistake in 2009. I must also say that by 2009 I have become quite indifferent to flight meals and it was just about OK this time, nothing too great but not at all bad. My 2009 I also have started drinking wine on the flights even though I would be hard pressed to name two brands of wine. Whatever they gave me was nice.
What I liked most about the flight? My window seat and those shots from the air. But the most surprising aspect of the flights was the amount of movies I watched. In all, counting both ways I watched 8 movies, which I otherwise probably do not watch even in an entire year! I watched Jungle Book, Finding Nemo, Ice Age III, Angel and Demons, Delhi-6,Pathar Ki Sanam, Love Aajkal and Kaminey. That also means I didn’t sleep a wink. All in all my kind of a flight.
Flight crew was quite alright, I anyway do not need much, only second helpings of tea and coffee, that they gave me. In all my four visits to UK I have been on a different airline, BA, Jet, Virgin and Emirates and the most immature crew that I met was on Virgin. So will I fly Emirates again? That largely depends on who is doing my ticekts, but if they wish to do it on Emirates I won’t mind it at all.
I like emirates airhostesses!!!
wine on flights, my hubby finds it the best thing to enjoy on long flights!!!…
and that also reminds me of a colleague, who had taken a vow to his wife never to drink while he was on earth…so he used to go crazy drinking on international flights!!
The picture I find interesting because it seems wing cover is copyright by Mridula.
HA Ha ha…
joking.
Yes, agree with above.. you’ve copyrighted entire engine… Wishing you another Emirates Flight soon…
I was away on solo backpacking trip to 2 countries. Just when I had left, you changed your url. All these days I was wondering how can Mridula not post for so long ! I mean it wasn’t just.
And see, today when I started blog hopping, I found out. You’ve changed your address. 🙂
Interesting trip , I believe and never missed the opportunity to shoot:)
It seems u forgot to put in the disclaimer 😛
Vegan with wine now that is very Roman combination 😛
i love flying Emirates
My sister works for them, so yes, it is a good airline 😀 No, but seriously though, I like their in-flight entertainment a lot.
Oh and by the way, nice picture 🙂
8 movies!! and nice ones too! looks like u really had a great time……. shankar said he liked Emirates too, when he went to London…. and brought back Samhith an Emirates Plane set too….
8 movies!! How could you keep your eyes open? I was surprised when I found bunch of crappy (new) Hindi movies on my flight from Atlanta to Lima (Peru). I tried my best to finish 1 or 2 of those movies, but gave up after 15-20 minutes – I think one was “Teri Rub Na Bana Di Jodi” and other one was “Aaloo Chat” (not sure about the title). BTW Bollywood movies are very popular in Peru (even in small towns and villages). You can easily find DVDs of Spanish version (dubbed or subtitled) of Hindi movies very easily. I saw posters of Kajol, Ameesha Patel, Ashwarya Rai, Hritik, etc. in a small shop in a remote village. One of my taxi drivers (in his 50s) was a Raj Kapoor fan and his favorite Hindi movie was “Mera Naam Joker”. I met a high school young boy who had Hindi songs on his cell phone and saw bunch of teenage girls in a shop dancing to the tune of a “Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai” song – they told me they had a Bollywood dance club at their high school. My guide at Machhu Pichhu had seen few Hindi movies and told me that an Indian movie was shot at the location – she kept on telling me how beautiful that actress was. Later, I found out that it was a Telugu movie *ing Rajanikanth and Aishwarya Rai.