77 Million Meals A Year: Emirates Reveals The Numbers Behind Its Onboard Dining Operation

The world's largest Airbus A380 operator, Emirates, serves 149 meals every minute. With 499 daily flights, this amounts to 215,000 meals every day, and over a year, Emirates serves 77 million customers. Emirates can pull off these staggering figures with the help of a dedicated group of 1400 chefs – some of whom work in the Emirates flight catering facility in Dubai while others work for its catering partners around the globe.