Consistently cited as one of the world's best airlines, Emirates is the largest Middle Eastern Airline. Based in Dubai, most of its flight attendants are recruited from overseas.
Emirates gives you a free hotel room when you have a layover between 8-24 hours but the thing you must do is ask for it while checking in. They will not let you book it at the terminal. I made this mistake and needed to go all the way back out through security, make the reservation, and then back through security again. The person making a reservation ahead of me was Tommy Hilfiger. No joke. The Emirates employees said he was a kind, friendly, mellow guy — important traits to hold onto when you’re as successful as he is.
I have flown internationally before (Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama) but never experienced anything like the Emirates flight. The minute you walk onto the plane there’s this uplifting, ambient music playing with a woman’s vocals that roll up and down as if moving through a valley. It presented a good feeling given the fact that I was about to be sitting in 1 place for 12 hours. The crew reminded me of Jetblue’s crews; kind, friendly, funny, and down-to-earth, phenomenal.
