Emirates opens dedicated flight catering facility
Sunday, 5 August 2007
FE Report
Emirates' onboard meals from Dubai are now supplied from a new purpose-built flight catering facility that is the most modern and the largest of its kind in the world.
The $120 million unit, with a design capacity to produce 115,000 meals per day, became fully operational at the start of this month.
The new flight kitchen is exclusive to Emirates while the existing one, adjacent to it, continues to serve all other airlines.
Both were operated by Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), which was 90 per cent owned by Emirates and 40 per cent by Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation.
Group Services President Gary Chapman and Dnata said: "An in-flight catering facility is like a Rubic's Cube, there are so many processes that all have to come together at the right time and in the right place."
Emirates' onboard meals from Dubai are now supplied from a new purpose-built flight catering facility that is the most modern and the largest of its kind in the world.
The $120 million unit, with a design capacity to produce 115,000 meals per day, became fully operational at the start of this month.
The new flight kitchen is exclusive to Emirates while the existing one, adjacent to it, continues to serve all other airlines.
Both were operated by Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), which was 90 per cent owned by Emirates and 40 per cent by Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation.
Group Services President Gary Chapman and Dnata said: "An in-flight catering facility is like a Rubic's Cube, there are so many processes that all have to come together at the right time and in the right place."