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“Really good but meals were hit and miss”

written by carolB123 on 16/07/2017

My husband and myself flew from Gatwick to Male via Dubai and returned the same route. Flight was delayed by 30minutes going out but not an issue for us. This was one of the best economy flights we have been on. Good leg room and in flight entertainment was brilliant. Lots to choose from and games to play so something for everyone. Arrived at Dubai and we didn't expect the long trek to get our connecting flight. Just as well we had over an hour between flights. The distance from arrival to connecting flights can be very hard to negotiate and we are seasoned travellers but never travelled via Dubai. Flight from Dubai to Male was not as good as the Gatwick to Dubai leg. Mainly because the plane was an older. Another issue was my husband doesn't eat eggs and apart from a breakfast omelette there was no other option apart from the curry that he wanted but they had run out of. Their answer was they only have a small percentage of curry on board for breakfast as most people prefer the omelette but in this particular flight there were more curry requests than normal. Well that was the only down side to the overall trip. Oh and they didn't even offer and alternative. The stewardess asked when our return flight was so that she can make arrangements for our return flight to have a meal pre ordered. So the breakfast was omelette or nothing, my husband had nothing. Not good when you have been travelling for over 9 hours. Our return journey the same issue with the aircraft being slightly less leg room but an older aircraft. The crowning glory was the same issue from Male to Dubai only Breakfast Omelette available. Although my husband explained about the issue on the outward journey it just fell on deaf ears. Apologies but not much else. They did manage to find some fresh fruit but my husband told them to keep it as he was so angry. The flight attendants came back to him 3 times to ask if he was sure which made him so irate he told the attendant to go away and leave him alone. Shame they didn't go up to first or business class they may have found an alternative there. all in all it was a good flight but the lack of breakfast alternative let Emirates down. I will fly with them again as the good out weighed the bad. Had there not been an issue with the breakfast they would have got 5*. I have travelled all over the world with various airlines and this is the first time there was an issue with running out of meal choices.