Emirates Flight Catering
Dubai caterer owned 90 percent by Emirates. It produces airline meals for more than 100 airlines and also runs food services, events catering and laundry businesses.
Industry: Airline and events catering | Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Founded: 2007
About Emirates Flight Catering
Emirates Flight Catering, known as EKFC, provides airline, airport and events catering from a large facility at Dubai International Airport. Its website says it produces about 225,000 meals a day, serves more than 100 airlines and employs more than 10,000 people. It also runs Foodcraft, which supplies food services to hospitality and retail customers in the GCC, and Linencraft, a laundry business.
The company's website says Emirates owns 90 percent of EKFC and Dubai Airports Corporation holds the rest. It launched its current complex in 2007 to serve Emirates flights. Shahreyar Nawabi is chief executive and is quoted as such in company releases from February 2025 to February 2026. The website names Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of The Emirates Group, as chairman of the board.
EKFC says it established Foodcraft in April 2020. Linencraft processes up to 280 tonnes of laundry a day with 1,300 staff and serves more than 100 clients in aviation, hospitality and healthcare. SGS Gulf certified it to ISO 9001 in October 2025. In 2022 it became exclusive food and beverage partner of Coca-Cola Arena.
In 2018 EKFC agreed a joint venture with Crop One for a vertical farm near Al Maktoum International Airport, and on 19 February 2024 it took full ownership of the farm, now called Emirates Bustanica. In February 2025 Emirates Leisure Retail and Informa named EKFC exclusive caterer of the Dubai Airshow for four years. For the November 2025 show it planned more than 300,000 meals with nearly 2,600 staff, according to Gulf News.
In May 2025 EKFC announced AED 60 million for 53 aircraft catering trucks from Mallaghan, FAMCO and Volvo.
In January 2026 EKFC took its first dedicated stand at Gulfood, jointly with Bustanica, to present an expanded food-service range. In February 2026 it said it had commissioned a biodigester at its Central Commissary Unit that could avoid more than 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year at full capacity.
Leadership
- Shahreyar Nawabi, Chief Executive Officer
- Adel Ahmad Jawad Al Redha, Director
- Boutros Maroun Boutros, Director
- Eugene Michael Barry, Director
- Derek Blaney, Director
- Muna Abdalla Abdulrahman Alabdouli, Director
- Thomas Ney, Director