SEASONAL OCCASIONS
Lunar New Year
Wishing you good fortune
Start the Lunar New Year celebrations with us. Let’s welcome wealth and prosperity, and celebrate reunions and togetherness around the world. Experience a taste of the festivities on board and in our lounges in Dubai, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore until 19 February 2025.
You’re in luck
Red is the colour of energy, happiness and luck. We hope to bring you all three this Lunar New Year. Find our iconic red envelope filled with lucky chocolate coins in your goodie basket or meal tray on board selected flights. You can also indulge in a luscious lychee and rose mousse cake in First Class and Business Class, as well as a lychee, rose and raspberry mousse cake in Premium Economy. And if you’re flying in Economy Class, treat yourself to a taro coconut sago dessert with sweetened fruits and red beans.
Start the celebration in our lounges
Enjoy Asian traditional dishes at our breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets in our lounges in Dubai, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.
Taste prosperity in a selection of savoury seafood and vegetable specialties, including prosperity chicken rolls, sweet and sour seabass, glutinous rice with eight treasure rice pudding and dim sum items. Then cap off the sweet celebration with special desserts like golden blossom raspberry cake, matcha green tea ice cream and a luxurious orange mousse cake. In Dubai, you’ll also have a selection of seasonal drinks from a creamy pistachio iced matcha to a refreshing Blossom Fizz.
Get into the festive spirit
This Lunar New Year, enjoy new additions to our inflight entertainment in Mandarin and Cantonese. Watch up to 38 movies, including We Girls, Clash, and Rob N Roll.
You can also choose from up to 316 Hollywood movies with Chinese subtitles, including new releases One Battle After Another, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Predator: Badlands and Blue Moon. And listen to up to 96 Chinese albums and playlists of more than 1,000 songs on ice.
Usher in prosperity together
The Lunar New Year celebrations started out as a Spring Festival and continues to be one of the most important holidays in East Asia. Although traditions and the dates when specific countries celebrate the day may vary, the Lunar New Year is usually celebrated between 20 January and 21 February.
Products and services may vary on actual flights depending on routes, aircraft configuration and seasonality. Operational requirements may also cause last-minute changes to the aircraft used on scheduled flights.