Emirates has won the ‘Best Inflight Entertainment Award’ in Airline Ratings 2024 Airline Excellence Awards, announced online.

Judges were pleased with the airlines’ mixture of content, which includes audiobooks, learning and wellbeing content as well as the usual mix of Hollywood movies, TV and kid’s shows.

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Airlineratings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas commented on the award; “Our editors were unanimous in their praise for 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.”

The airline was one of the first  to introduce seat-back videos for economy-class passengers in the late 1990s. It was the first airline in the world to introduce Audio Descriptive soundtracks and Closed Captions on movies on an inflight entertainment system.