{"id":256424,"date":"2025-09-15T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/?p=256424"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:09:50","slug":"emirates-takes-home-two-global-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2025\/09\/emirates-takes-home-two-global-accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates takes home two global accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DUBAI, UAE, 15 September 2025: Emirates won global recognition on Friday at the APEX\/IFSA Global EXPO<\/a> in Long Beach, California, winning two notable awards \u2014 the 2026 APEX Best Global Entertainment Award for its ice inflight entertainment system and a 2026 APEX World Class award for all aspects of the airline\u2019s customer experience and brand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Emirates\u2019 ice wins the 2026 APEX Best Global Entertainment Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a selection of more than 600 airlines globally, Emirates scooped the 2026 APEX Best Global Entertainment award from one million verified passenger votes. Emirates ice has long been celebrated as the world\u2019s most extensive media library in the sky, providing customers with more than 6,500 channels of diverse entertainment and information. Within its vast library, customers can choose from up to 2,000 movies, 650 TV shows, and 4,000 hours of music, podcasts, and audiobooks across 40 languages. Ice partners with all the best providers, including HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Food Network, CBeebies, Discovery+, BBC, Bloomberg Originals, Shahid, BBC Earth, Animal Planet, HGTV, Nickelodeon and Spotify to provide trending and current content. Ice also offers five channels of live TV covering sports fixtures and news, as well as providing updates, news headlines, flight times and an in-flight airshow to follow the flight\u2019s progress and see the world from 40,000 feet through external cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emirates is also rolling out the installation of a new Thales\u2019 AVANT Up system for its 50-strong fleet of new Airbus A350 aircraft. At an investment of over USD350 million, the next-generation in-flight entertainment on the Emirates\u2019 <\/a>A350s offers a suite of ground-breaking and innovative features. The game-changing technology includes Optiq 4K QLED HDR displays, the capacity to host triple the amount of content, improved \u2018live\u2019 television options, innovative and user-friendly interfaces, and enhanced passenger connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emirates receives 2026 APEX World Class award for 6th consecutive year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduced in 2021, Emirates has once again received an APEX WORLD CLASS\u2122award for its suite of products and services beloved by customers across the world, for the 6th consecutive year. Emirates was recognised and defined as world-class across all categories, including safety and well-being, sustainability, service and guest experience, food and beverage, brand integrity, hospitality, personalisation, comfort, connectivity and many more. The APEX World Class award is a top achievement, audited by industry professionals on real flights in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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