Emirates is presently working one of many busiest time durations for its Unaccompanied Minors Service, as many youngsters return to Dubai from summers spent overseas to begin the brand new faculty yr. Within the coming week alone, Emirates will welcome greater than 900 youngsters, who’re flying alone utilizing the acclaimed family-friendly service.
Over the previous 5 years, greater than 120,000 youngsters have availed of Emirates’ Unaccompanied Minors and Younger Passenger companies. The vast majority of youngsters who’ve travelled alone in Emirates care are aged 11 years or youthful. The households who presently use the service probably the most are British, then Indian, adopted by American, Filipino and French. When youngsters are flying with out their household, Emirates is there each step of the way in which. For these aged between 5 and 11 years outdated, Emirates’ Unaccompanied Minors Service ensures younger folks take pleasure in a supervised and protected journey from test‑in to vacation spot, with loads of enjoyable and memorable moments alongside the way in which.
What does Emirates’ Unaccompanied Minors Service embrace?
A protected place to sit back out and play – Emirates Unaccompanied Minors Lounge
When mother and father and guardians deliver their younger flyer to Dubai Worldwide Airport (DXB), they will go straight to the Unaccompanied Minors Lounge close to the test‑in space. Proof of identification should be supplied to Emirates by the individual dropping off the kid and the guardian might want to signal a permission kind. Kids shall be swiftly checked in and might then calm down with video video games, free Wi‑Fi, and comfy sofas. Within the devoted and personal area supervised by the Emirates workforce, children can take pleasure in complimentary drinks and snacks whereas they wait for his or her flight and use the kids’s loos.
Help and supervision from a skilled Emirates specialist for the entire journey
On the airport, a specialist member of Emirates’ workforce will meet the kid on the Unaccompanied Minors test‑in desk. The Emirates specialist stays with the kid during the airport, taking good care of them and carrying their passport for security. The specialist helps them by way of safety and immigration, facilitating precedence boarding in order that the kid has time to get settled on their flight, earlier than introducing them to the cabin crew on the plane door for the subsequent stage. Whereas within the air, Emirates cabin crew are readily available to verify the younger flyer has a cushty and memorable journey. Dad and mom and guardians can request any particular dietary necessities upfront and advise whether or not the kid want to sit by the window or the aisle, or seat siblings collectively. Emirates cabin crew repeatedly test on the kid to make sure they’re having fun with their journey, are consuming their meals and whether or not they want any assist in adjusting their seat or inflight leisure system.
Enjoyable onboard with Emirates Cabin Crew
Kids onboard Emirates can move the time with free Wi-Fi once they signal as much as Emirates Skysurfers, complimentary toys and giveaways, greater than 100 video video games and an enormous array of kids’s content material on the award-winning inflight leisure ice, together with new launch films, Disney Classics, Marvel Studios and Star Wars collections, and the entire Harry Potter films sequence, CBeebies, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Community.
If it’s the kid’s birthday, mother and father and guardians can order a cake 48 hours earlier than the flight and Emirates cabin crew will have fun the special day. Particular reminiscences are captured with a Polaroid digicam so youngsters have a souvenir of their travels.
As soon as youngsters land at their vacation spot, a specialist member of Emirates’ workforce shall be on the plane door to welcome them. The kid shall be accompanied by way of the airport till they meet their dad or mum or guardian at Arrivals, and proof of identification should be supplied to Emirates by the individual accumulating the kid.
Help for Older Kids and Teenagers
Kids aged 12 – 15 years outdated are permitted to fly alone with out utilizing Emirates’ Unaccompanied Minors Service at mother and father and guardians’ discretion. Nevertheless, mother and father and guardians who would really like some further assist and supervision for his or her solo travellers aged between 12 and 15, can request this service. For an extra price of USD 50 for every leg of the journey, assist shall be supplied for kids aged 12- 15 years, which incorporates all features of the Unaccompanied Minors Service.
Emirates’ Unaccompanied Minor Service for Connecting Prospects
The protection and safety of kids is of the utmost significance to Emirates – a household pleasant airline. Some phrases and situations are in place to guard youngsters from an uncomfortable journey. If the kid is transferring from an Emirates flight to a different Emirates flight at Dubai Worldwide (DXB), the utmost connection time allowed is 8 hours. If the connection time is above 8 hours, this shall be topic to approval from Emirates. Kids on connecting flights shall be delivered to an Unaccompanied Minors Lounge to relaxation and wait earlier than being delivered to their flight and handed over to cabin crew. In the event that they want to enter the airport for a meal, they are going to be accompanied by an Emirates specialist. A younger passenger shouldn’t be permitted to remain in a single day at their connecting airport until an grownup guardian is organized to satisfy and look after them on the transit level, and that is topic to Emirates approval.
