This video shows the in-flight entertainment system on an Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300ER, economy class.
Features include:
• Hundreds of movies, games, TV and audio channels
• SMS and email
• Satellite telephones
• Moving map channel showing the aircraft’s position and views from onboard cameras
• Power sockets for recharging laptops
Virgin Radio DJ Brent Black shows us the view from his apartment at Jumeirah Lake Towers.
The footage includes shots of the Dubai Metro (being tested) and Dubai Marina and Dubai Marina Mall.
Brent highlights the amount of construction work that has been going on over the last year. A video from 1 year before illustrates the changes.
This video shows what it’s like to drive through the sub-sea tunnel at the Palm Jumeirah.
The tunnel connects the trunk of the Palm Jumeirah to the crescent (where the major resort hotels are located – Atlantis etc.).
It is 1.4 km long and 38 m wide. It has 3 cells; the outer cells contain 3-lane roads while the central cell is used for emergency evacuation and service vehicles.
It was completed in 2007.
It will also be possible to travel to the crescent on the Palm Jumeirah Monorail. It can be seen in the video and is expected to open in April 2009.
This short video shows a drive through the tunnel connecting the Trunk of the Palm Jumeirah to the Crescent.
The Crescent is home to the large resort hotels such as Atlantis.
This great video gives a good overview of many of the attractions and things to do in Dubai.
The video includes the Bastakia Quarter in Bur Dubai, a jeep drive in the desert, abras on the Dubai Creek, souks, Ski Dubai, the Dubai Ice Rink and the Dubai Aquarium (at the Dubai Mall), the Atlantis hotel, Burj Al Arab hotel, Burj Dubai and Downtown Burj Dubai, lots of construction work (and some demolition!), expensive cars, and one of the new air-conditioned bus shelters.
This video shows what is like to drive into Dubai from Abu Dhabi on the Sheikh Zayed Road. Note the 6-lane highway, the massive Burj Dubai skyscraper, and the new Dubai Metro line running alongside the road.
Watch the video until the end and you’ll get an idea of how built up the city is in the Trade Centre area.