UAE airlines Emirates and Etihad are serving traditional Arabic foods and iftar dishes during Ramadan. Emirates is serving thousands of meal boxes for fasting customers both onboard and at boarding gates and offering traditional Ramadan dishes in the lounges. At the Emirates Lounges in Dubai International Airport (DXB), an array of Arabic sweets, dates and coffee are being served during Ramadan. Emirates and Etihad Ramadan dishes Traditional dishes available in First and Business Class lounges include: Emirates Lounges in Cairo and Jeddah will also serve an array of Ramadan dishes. Emirates lounges have dedicated prayer rooms and ablution facilities to ensure a peaceful environment for worship. For the comfort of fasting customers at select Emirates Boarding Gates during iftar time, complimentary iftar boxes to help break the fast-containing water, laban, a banana, and dates are distributed. To ensure the highest levels of accuracy for fasting Muslim passengers, Emirates uses a unique tool to calculate the correct timings for imsak (the time to commence fasting) and iftar while in-flight, based on the times of the sunrise and sunset of the location the flight is passing by using the aircraft’s longitude, latitude, and altitude When the sun sets, passengers will be officially […]