Emirates unveils new Business Class for Boeing B777s

Emirates has unveiled new Business Class seats for Boeing B777s. The first B777 with a nose-to-tail cabin refresh sporting a new look has now rolled into service.

Emirates New Business Class for B777s

Emirates’ first B777 with new Business Class product has been unveiled. The aircraft took a total of 37 days for a complete revamp and entered service four days ahead of its officially announced deployment schedule.

For the first time ever, Emirates will offer a 1-2-1 configured Business Class cabin with direct aisle access for every passenger. This is much better than the older 2-3-2 configured Business cabin. The new Emirates 777 Business Class is set in a warm and inviting cabin. It’s almost a replica of the Business Class seats found on the airline’s A380s.

However, some minor changes have been made. The cabin’s seats and colour story have been enhanced to echo the light and airy design elements of Emirates’ iconic A380s, with “soft leather cream seats accented with champagne trim, lighter wood panelling, and modern technology touches”.

The cabin features 38 seats, each being 20.7-inch wide that converts into a flat bed, reclining up to 78.6-inches. The seat also features a padded headrest, a personal mini-bar, a tray table, multiple charging outlets for personal devices and a 23-inch high-definition Inflight Entertainment Screen. The Emirates Boeing B777 Business Class cabin will also include a small bar for passengers to quickly grab mid-flight snacks and refreshments.

Emirates continues to carry out our commitment to deliver an unmatchable onboard experience with the introduction of our latest Boeing 777 with new signature interiors, raising the industry benchmark when it comes to premium travel. Our latest Business Class cabin offers customers a sense of exclusivity and privacy, complemented by our best-in-class suite of onboard products. The addition of our popular Premium Economy cabin, rated one of the best in the industry, injects modern sophistication to the flying experience and is carefully designed for more comfort.  With more Boeing 777s and A380s refreshed to sport our latest generation onboard products, customers can consistently have the very best experiences in the sky across both aircraft types.

Sir Tim Clark, President, Emirates Airline said.

Premium Economy and Economy Class

The Emirates Boeing 777 entered refurbishment in early July, with a planned reconfiguration of the aircraft to make way for a new Premium Economy cabin consisting of 24 seats set in three rows in a 2-4-2 abreast layout. The cream leather seats, accentuated by wood panel finishings across the cabin, offer 38-inches of pitch, are 19.5-inches wide and recline 8 inches, in addition to 6-way adjustable headrests.

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The new Economy Class cabin features 256 seats in a colour palette of soft greys and blues. The “ergonomically designed seats” also include full leather headrests with flexible side panels that can also be adjusted vertically for optimum support.

Emirates’ signature ghaf tree motif also features prominently throughout the interiors.

As of 7th August 2024, this refurbished B777 is flying to Geneva, with Brussels and Tokyo Haneda to join in the next few weeks. The Dubai-based carrier says that more destinations to receive this upgraded experience will be “announced soon”.

Mega-refurbishment

Emirates will be refurbishing another 80 Boeing B777 aircraft as part of its investment of over US$3 billion. The refurbishment work on the Boeing B777 was conceptualised, designed, and executed inhouse by a team of 175 engineers and technicians at Emirates Engineering in Dubai. The carrier says that the “project’s considerable impact on the local aviation eco-system is evident through the more than 10 major partners who have hired hundreds of skilled workers and set up workshops both at the Engineering facility and offsite to support the various aspects of the refurbishment programme”.

The first B777 took 37 days and 18,000 manhours to finish as teams operated round the clock in a chronological sequence of work, from the removal of interiors, all the way to reinstallation and testing of the new seats and other cabin components.

To deliver the first Boeing 777 refurbished aircraft, the airline used a total of:

• 330 square metres of carpets
• 340 laminate sheets
• 8,000 square feet of leather for First, Business and Premium Economy Class seats
• 800 metres of fabric for Economy Class seats
• 300 litres of paint

The airline has earmarked 191 Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 aircraft for a full facelift as part of the largest known retrofit programme the industry has seen in scale and size. Once the project is complete, the airline will have installed 8,104 next-generation Premium Economy seats, 1,894 refreshed First-Class suites, 11,182 upgraded Business Class seats and 21,814 Economy Class seats. 

Emirates currently operates its refurbished aircraft to New York JFK, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, London Heathrow, Sydney, Auckland, Christchurch, Melbourne, Singapore, Mumbai, Bangalore, Sao Paulo, Tokyo Narita, Osaka, Geneva and Dubai.

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