Emirates - the enemy of its own success?

I so very much wish to extol the modern flashiness of a premiere airline of the world as popularity would certainly have it believe, and express how much I'm impressed with its modern touches, human niceties and little things that surprises me, but no. 

None of that. 

I mean there are only so much a airline is judged by serious - seats ergonomics, food, service attitude, plane. 

Ok the good things first: plane is smooth. Take off is soooo smooth, this thing feels like slicing on warm butter. But where is the promised star ceiling? Or is that just business class

Entertainment system: it's like having the entire imdb on here, even 1940 moves and u can go for Harry potter moviethorns. 

Air Stewarts are butt ugly - obesity galore. None of the singapore or Japanese curvy standards. 

Seat wise, the 380 isn't really a match to the sofa like quality of a 747. Flat and lifeless lumber support. The first row also have to put up with the stupidly designed tray table and touch screen. That tray table is a disgrace in design. Buttons, plugs, tables are wholly non-intuitive. So what if I have a large screen if it takes 5 mins to find ear plug sockets?! And if I can't even fit a skinny tray of shit airline food on the fold out tray!? Admittedly, sitting next to a fucking hippo doesn't help emirates' cause of seat comfy perception level. 

Food wise: stone hard and ice cold bread - wtf?! I thought u guys have class. 2 piece of lettuce and 1 single tomato slice and some smoked tuna! U call that a salad? Make me so missing Qantas good. Hmmm even the cup noodle beats this shit. Oh and forcing me to take the chicken because you can't be bothered to get beef isn't good enough. More bitchfest: having to wait 3 minutes after turning on my call light asking for water and none of the 3 hostesses responded while 3 meters away is also not good enough. End up having to walk and get water myself! Shock horror! For a 2600 dollar flight fate I expect those mildly obese hostess to drip feed me anything I want. :)

Service: certainly nothing to write home about. Stern faces and weird accents are the norm. 

Maybe emirates just need to hire some overpriced consultants to teach them service quality, but those culture i increasingly think are not taught in plebs. I would gladly fly another airline next time. 

Dubai intl airport 

After so many airport experiences, no airport even the giant dubai international can dazzle me anymore. The general shape of each terminal is so uninteresting to be honest, just a giant omlette shaped corridors that are dotted with perfume, chocolate, alcohol, and stupid priced watches in the middle, and gates along each side.