This is a Trip Report from the Upper Class cabin
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Arrived around 4pm as had got bored at work and thought I might as well head off. Airport was relatively quiet, with 5 (!) upper class desks open and no-one there. Swift bag drop and then through security (again no-one there) and into the lounge. Had thought that this might be busy as my mother had flown out on Saturday and it was very busy in there apparently. Got some local currency and reading material and then off to the lounge.
Was surprised that this was relatively quiet, and that the typical person in there today was older and more leisure based than the usual business type passenger. This was true all evening, but suppose it was close to christmas. Had the usual first glass of champagne and then relaxed before my facial at 6.....very good! The menu had seemed to change again - had leak and potato soup (not bad but could have been warmer!) and then honey roast hock of ham with mash (VERY good). Service was a lot lot better than when we flew through here in November - more staff around.
Headed down to gate to find all Prem/Econ already boarded/boarding. Got on to my original seat of 9K - Christmas music playing as boarding music today. There were complaining families as hadn't realised that their seats weren't facing each other.....as on my own offered to move to 10A. Upper class seemed to be full of large families and a few odd people like me travelling on their own.
Nice pre-flight champagne and diet coke (to rehydrate of course)! Everything was ready to go and then the captain came on to say that we were being delayed as someone had become ill and they need to be taken off. Not sure what the problem was, but ambulances with blue flashing lights appeared. Eventually took off at 21:45, with a short flight time of just over 6 hours.
There was no formal snooze zone on this flight, with the majority of people eating on board. The express supper tray was leak and potato soup! The other options were a chicken curry (which I had and was very nice), salmon and a veggie option. They did a proper drinks service and then dinner - more like a daytime flight rather than a night flight. After my curry, bed down and managed to get about 3 hours sleep.
On waking, everyone else was having breakfast. As I was meeting people here and they had suggested breakfast on arrival, I declined. However, I asked for a glass of sparkling water - this seemed to never occur, although everyone kept asking if I wanted something to eat.
Arrived to Dubai in cloud - really odd seeing all the tall buildings sticking out above the cloud on the way in. Dubai airport is getting huge these days.....I've always been on a remote stand but with Terminal 3 open VS now seem to get a proper gate. THe only problem with this, is that on arrival it is a very long old walk to immigration area.
Overall a nice flight, but a very different type of passenger up the front to normal!!
