Emirates has been voted “Best Long Haul Airline” at The Telegraph Travel Awards 2025. The accolade was decided by 20,000 Telegraph Travel readers, recognising the airline’s services and travel experience.
Award ceremony and recognition
The award was presented last week at the Pompadour Hotel Café Royal in London. Helen Breen, Emirates’ Leisure Sales Manager in the UK, accepted the honour on behalf of the airline.
Emirates was also recently named “2025’s Most Recommended Global Brand” by YouGov, the only airline to appear in the top 10 global brands.
Over the past three years, Emirates has maintained strong recognition in the industry. The airline won ‘Best Long Haul Airline’ in 2023 and 2025 from Telegraph Travel.
In 2024, Emirates topped a global consumer study of 90 airlines, which evaluated factors such as punctuality, baggage allowance, route network, home airport quality, fleet age, rewards programme value, and in-flight meals.
Network expansion and upgrades
Emirates continues to expand and enhance its offerings. Recent developments include:
Launching flights to Shenzhen, Da Nang, Siem Reap, Damascus, and Hangzhou (starting July 30).
Deploying the new Emirates A350 aircraft to 10 destinations worldwide, with plans to reach 17 by year-end.
Opening nine redesigned travel retail stores across Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Refurbishing 61 aircraft as part of a US$5 billion retrofit programme.
Introducing new Business Class dining options featuring 18 dishes paired with exclusive Champagne.
Enhancing the Emirates Skywards loyalty programme with new airline and hotel partnerships.
Emirates’ UK services
Emirates operates 133 weekly flights to the UK, including multiple daily A380 flights to London Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and A350 services to Edinburgh.
Booking data shows a 12% year-on-year increase in UK flight searches on emirates.com, with popular destinations including New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Mauritius.
Passengers can expect Emirates’ multinational crew, regional cuisine, and its award-winning inflight entertainment system, ice, which offers up to 6,500 channels of movies, TV shows, and podcasts.
