A caviar cavalcade on Emirates flights
The Age Newspaper, 29/8/25
Chris Zappone, Aviation reporter
Emirates' first-class passengers are spooning up caviar in greater proportions than last year, the Dubai-based airline has revealed It helps that the supply of Siberian sturgeon caviar is unlimited in the resplendent front-of-the-plane cabin.
The airline says it has recorded a 30 per cent jump in caviar consumption year-on-year. And the routes eating the most of the expensive fish egg delicacy - which can retail at $1300 for 500 grams - are between Dubai and London, followed by between Dubai and Paris.
Emirates says, the next most caviar-hungry route is between Dubai and Sydney.
"The Sydney-Dubai leg is 14 hours long, so the sort of people who can afford a first-class fare are also the sort of people who appreciate caviar, and who appreciate experiences that will help the time fly," Sydney-based food critic Terry Durack said
"I had caviar three times on the long leg, and my tip is to order a bowl of potato crisps as well and scoop up your caviar with them, saves filling up on all those blinis."
After the Dubai-Sydney flights, Emirates flights between Moscow and Bangkok had the most caviar gobblers. Following Russia's invasion of neighbour Ukraine in February 2022, the airline is among the few major Gulf carriers that continue flights to Moscow, where drone attacks have occasion-ally disrupted airport operations.
Durack, a former chief food critic for The Sydney Morning Herald, said: "People like me actually think they are 'getting their money's worth' by scoffing as much caviar as possible in the time available."