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Emirates Woos Nigerian Travellers

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Emirates has introduced an innovative new function on its app to allow Nigerian customers create be spoke play lists ahead of their flight and sync it to their seats once on board. Customers can plan their trip more effectivel­y, and maximise their onboard experience by using the Emirates app to browse the expansive entertainm­ent catalogue at anytime. Ice, Emirates’ award-winning in flight entertainm­ent has reached a new milestone of over 4,000 channels of ondemand entertainm­ent. The catalogue includes over 1,000 movies, more than any other airline, popular television box sets, tens of thousands of music tracks, podcasts and games. With this, Nigerian Travellers can get to watch the highly celebrated Nollywood movies. Similarly, they can get entertaine­d with other African movies. Nigerian music play lists available on ice for the month of February include music by Fela Kuti, Davido’s ‘Son of Mercy EP’, WizKid’s ‘Sounds from the Other Side ’, and Burn a Boy’ s‘ Outside ’. Other African music to choose from are D jG any a ni’ s House Grooves, Best of Yvonne Ch aka Ch aka, African Pop Mix, and Diamond Platnumz’s A Boy fromTandal­e. Travellers can sync their entertainm­ent selections Ap lo ahead of travel by first booking a flight on Emirates App, and then visit ‘My trips’ on the app to see what’s showing on ICE, after which they will be expected to scroll through thousands of movies, TV shows, music and podcasts, pick out their favourites, and add them to the playlist, and the playlist is ready to take him on board. The traveller will then be expected to connect to W if ion board and pair his playlist with these at back screen after which he enters these at back number. That way, pairing is complete and so he can sit back and enjoy a personaliz­ed entertainm­ent.

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