Emirates to Serve Thanksgiving Meals

The airline will offer the festive meals in its lounges and onboard flights.

Emirates A380 first class seat (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Hemal Gosai)

[ News ]November 20, 2024 7:15 pm ET

By Hemal Gosai

Emirates is taking part in Thanksgiving this year. Passengers will get to enjoy many Thanksgiving favorites in the air between November 23-30 on flights to and from the United States.

The menus will vary by class of service, but all featured dishes are inspired by the holiday.

In first class from Dubai to the U.S., passengers will be able to order celeriac and pear soup with leek as a soup course. This will be followed by an appetizer of smoked salmon with chives, cucumber, pea shoots, and a horseradish sauce. The main course is a heft turkey leg roulade with roasted butternut squash, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, roasted pecans, cranberry sauce, and cornbread. The dessert course includes an option of warm apple fritters with mascarpone cream and cinnamon sugar, or a key lime tart with raspberry coulis.

From the U.S. to Dubai, the menu is different in first class. The soup is a sweet potato soup with poached lobster and chives. The appetizer is a seafood platter served with caviar. The main course is a lemon, zaatar, and buttermilk roasted turkey with celeriac apple puree, maple-roasted caraway pumpkin and beetroot, kale with cranberries, pecan, and cornbread stuffing. Dessert is a choice of hot toffee apple and pecan cake with a caramel sauce and marshmallows, or a chocolate marble cheesecake with a berry compote and vanilla custard.

Emirates’ Thanksgiving meals (Photo: Emirates)

Business class features a soup followed by salmon gravadlax and a main course of sliced turkey with similar accompaniments as in first class. Premium economy will also have similar meal options.

In economy, passengers can opt for a Waldorf Salad with vegan mayonnaise, followed by roasted chicken with cranberry jus, chestnut roulade with turkey bacon, maple-baked parsnips, carrot mash, peas, and potato wedges. Dessert will feature pumpkin, apple, and cheese mouse with cinnamon cream and ginger biscuit crumbles along with a pumpkin spiced cookie.

On select A380 flights from Dubai to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles, the onboard bar will feature pecan cupcakes and other festive snacks.

Lounge Offerings

Emirates lounges in the United States in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco will also be celebrating Thanksgiving. The lounges will offer roasted turkey with apple sage stuffing, garlic mashed potatoes and fall squash pumpkin, and cheesecake mouse.

The airline’s lounges in Dubai will offer pumpkin tarts, roasted turkey breast with cranberry sauce, stuffing, chestnuts, new potatoes, roasted root vegetables, and festive cocktails.

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Hemal took his first flight at four years old and has been an avgeek since then. When he isn't working as an analyst he's frequently found outside watching planes fly overhead or flying in them. His favorite plane is the 747-8i which Lufthansa thankfully flies to EWR allowing for some great spotting. He firmly believes that the best way to fly between JFK and BOS is via DFW and is always willing to go for that extra elite qualifying mile. Hemal's opinions are his own and do not reflect those of his employer.

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Hemal Gosai

Hemal took his first flight at four years old and has been an avgeek since then. When he isn't working as an analyst he's frequently found outside watching planes fly overhead or flying in them. His favorite plane is the 747-8i which Lufthansa thankfully flies to EWR allowing for some great spotting. He firmly believes that the best way to fly between JFK and BOS is via DFW and is always willing to go for that extra elite qualifying mile.
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