Emirates' Longest Range Aircraft Touches Down

Emirates' Longest Range Aircraft Touches Down

Emirates has welcomed the 50th Boeing 777 into its fleet and the first of its 10 Boeing 777-200LRs on order. The fast-expanding airline's fleet count has now been brought to 108, all of them wide-bodied jets.

The technically-advanced Boeing 777-200LR will make its debut for Emirates on the airline's non-stop Dubai to Sao Paulo route, which will be launched on October 1, 2007, representing the first non-stop air link between the Middle East and South America. The same aircraft type will also be used on the Dubai - Houston service which begins on December 3.

Passengers will enjoy unrivalled comfort and amenities onboard Emirates' Boeing 777-200LR, which is equipped with eight luxurious private suites in First Class, 42 of its latest lie-flat seats in Business, and generous space for 216 passengers in Economy.

The aircraft will also feature ICE Digital Widescreen - Emirates' next generation inflight entertainment system which provides over 1,000 channels of movies, Tv and games entertainment on demand - more than any other airline offers, by far. In addition to unique functions that enable greater personalisation of the inflight entertainment experience, ice Digital Widescreen also provides amazing clarity of images and sound quality, delivered on the airline world's largest widescreen personal televisions - 23in in First Class, 17in in Business, and 10.6in in Economy.

Emirates, which flies four times daily from New Zealand to Dubai and beyond via Australia, now operates to 93 cities in 59 countries. This year it has launched services to Venice and Newcastle, and will soon add Toronto, Sao Paulo, Ahmedabad and Houston to its global network.

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