AirlineRatings: Emirates Wins Best Inflight Entertainment Award 2024

Dubai-based airline Emirates was recently crowned the global winner of the “Best Inflight Entertainment Award” in the AirlineRatings 2024 Airline Excellence Awards.

The AirineRatings.com Airline Excellence Awards were announced online after being evaluated by an editorial team with many years of experience. The list of winners was based on robust criteria including product and safety ratings, passengers’ reviews on AirlineRatings.com and TripAdvisor, and overall profitability.

Emirates scooped the top award for inflight entertainment from an extensive finalist list of global airlines due to its whopping 6,500 channels of high-quality and acclaimed content and the world’s largest entertainment library in the sky.

“Our editors were unanimous in their praise for the Emirates ice system as a step above. That early investment in inflight entertainment has paid off for Emirates, and just when you think it can’t do it better, it lifts the bar once again,” said Airlineratings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas.

A world-class entertainment library

Customers enjoying Emirates flights can access a world-class entertainment library of 6,500 channels, which among other things includes:

– more than 2,000 Hollywood and internationally acclaimed movies, including 2024 Academy Award winning films;
– global cinema in over 50 languages with more than 600 international movies from across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America;
– specially designed Emirates headphones for kids’ comfort;
– a music library of over 3,500 albums and curated playlists;
– podcasts and audiobooks, including Emirates World, are dedicated to highlighting the destination of Dubai and engaging with global thought leaders;
– over 200 documentary movies and popular TV docu-series;
– 5 channels of live TV, including 3 news channels and two channels with live sports coverage.

Meanwhile, Emirates Skywards members can enjoy free connectivity to Wi-Fi onboard.

Emirates adds new content every month 

Emirates continually updates its inflight content every month, adding hundreds of movies, TV shows, podcasts, and music channels each month to its extensive entertainment library and securing exclusive partnerships with the best content providers.

Customers can also curate their own ice (information, connectivity, entertainment) experience before their flight, simply by browsing and pre-selecting movies or TV shows on the Emirates app. The app can then be synchronized to ice the moment they board, maximizing the seamless travel experience.

The airline’s entertainment journey began almost 30 years ago, when it was one of the first airlines to introduce seat-back videos for economy-class passengers.