Flying Business Class with Emirates from Seattle to Dubai

Dinner had been cleared and I am just settling back into my movie when an attendant approaches. “Ms. Henry, would you like your mattress now?”

“Uh, sure,” I mutter, like I’m not surprised.

He lays out a long mattress for my chair and hands me a Bulgari amenities kit to make me more comfortable.

I’m on an airplane. An airplane!

A woman sleeping with her seat down flat in business class of an Emirates flight. – Photo courtesy of Emirates.

[As I wrote last week, I was invited as a guest by Emirates on their direct Seattle to Dubai route, flying in business class.]

I feel unusually small in my seat, as there is enough leg room for a person twice my height. That extra space makes room for my chair to recline almost flat as I get ready to sleep through some of the 14.5 hour flight. As the cabin lights dim, I look up to see the roof covered in sparkling stars. I don’t wake up until we’re flying over Lviv, Ukraine.

Lori Henry on an Emirates flight from Seattle to Dubai

There I am with my champagne flute as we get ready for departure on a direct flight from Seattle to Dubai on Emirates.

The rest of the flight found me watching a movie (La vie d’une autre / Another Woman’s Life, with one of my favourites, Juliette Binoche), fiddling with my seat controls (there are four different options), and getting used to the exemplary service.

These are the seat adjustment options in the business class “pod” seats: backrest, lumbar, seat pan and leg rest. I customized my pod to fit myself perfectly. And, yes, that is a massage setting.

As for in-flight meals, you can read what I thought about them in my article here, as well as my post about going behind the scenes where the food gets made in Dubai.

To give you an idea of the price comparison for the flight I was on (Seattle to Dubai, return) and the class I was in, the costs were as follows: