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Emirates Showing World Cup games onboard and across airports worldwide

Malta Independent Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago

Football fans across the world can keep up-to-date with every 2010 FIFA World Cup match, courtesy of live broadcasts on a number of screens installed by Emirates across airports worldwide. Onboard, fans can look forward to updates on their team’s progress with exclusive screenings of the most recent matches, as well as live text updates of current matches being played.

In a number of airports that it serves, passengers waiting to board their flights will not miss any of the action thanks to specially designed screens that will be showing all of the live action. In addition to this, a majority of first class and business class lounges are also broadcasting the matches live so that frequent fliers and premium passengers can enjoy all the live football action. Emirates’ onboard award-winning ice entertainment service is featuring recordings of all the games from the 64-match tournament within a few hours of them taking place, as well as live goal-by-goal updates and text commentary.

Big plasma screens broadcasting live coverage of every match are placed in different locations across airports in New York, Zurich, London Heathrow, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Hamburg, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Dubai.

Emirates airline is an official FIFA partner up to and including the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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