Dubai-based Emirates will debut two famous YouTube channels on its ice entertainment system this summer.

Known for their hairstyle tutorials, fashion and beauty vlogs, ‘Cute Girls Hairstyles’ and ‘Brooklyn & Bailey’ channels have over 5 million subscribers and over half a billion views combined on YouTube.

Families gearing up for their summer break can look forward to seven episodes from Brooklyn & Bailey’s YouTube channel on the Emirates in-flight entertainment system – ice Digital Widescreen –on channel #1479. The Cute Girls Hairstyles’ YouTube channel will debut on Emirates next month.

By August, there will be a total of six YouTube channels available on ice Digital Widescreen including Dude Perfect and Crash Course.

It is the first time that Cute Girls Hairstyles and Brooklyn & Bailey’s YouTube channels appear on an airline entertainment system.

"Emirates’ award-winning in-flight entertainment system caters to a spectrum of audience from the young to the old around the globe, whether they’re into mainstream or niche genres. We also embrace the trend of user-generated content that spawns entertaining and informative YouTube personalities like Cute Girls Hairstyles and Brooklyn & Bailey as they make our entertainment choices more vibrant. Today’s viewers are spoilt for choices, and Emirates offers a diverse range of options on-board with the inclusion of YouTube," said Patrick Brannelly, Emirates’ divisional vice president – Customer Experience.

Starting this month, young travellers on Emirates will also receive new headsets on which they can enjoy up to 75 channels of dedicated children’s entertainment from up to 2,000 channels overall. These fun and colourful new headsets will also have larger speakers for a more comfortable fit and much improved sound quality.

Emirates offers a wide variety of family and children’s programming including movies and television from Disney, Cartoon Network, CBeebies and Nickelodeon channels. – TradeArabia News Service