EMIRATES in BUSINESS CLASS on a 777 🇦🇪 Dubai ✈ Ho Chi Minh CIty 🇻🇳 Amazing Crew, Horrible Seat!
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Watch this video if you want to know what it's truly like to fly on Emirates' worst and most outdated business class seat. While Emirate's service and food was fantastic, it's hard to get past the seat design in this full 777 business class trip report of my flight from Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City.
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0:00 Welcome to Dubai
01:36 Terminal 3 Check in Hall
02:26 Terminal 3 B Gates
03:23 Emirates Network
05:32 Emirates Business Class Lounge
07:02 Gate Area
08:16 Boarding & Flight Stats
09:24 Full Seat & Cabin Tour
12:52 Pre Departure Service
13:15 Push Back & Safety
14:31 Spool up, Take off & Airport Stats
16:58 In Flight Comforts & Amenities
18:15 In Flight Entertainment
20:11 Meal Service Begins
22:07 Restroom & “Full Flat” Bed
22:40 Snack Service
23:14 Dragon Fruit Farms
23:29 Approach & Landing in Saigon
24:57 Bus Gate Arrival, Aircraft Views
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Well, that is the business class Emirates does not advertise but that is in more than 50 % of their fleet, 2-3-2 with angled flat beds. Shocking 😳
Such a strange dynamic for them to be so good in some ways and so incredibly crap in others lol
EK flies to some high population, low premium demand countries. I am surprised that it took this long for their new biz cabin to be introduced. Their biz class prices mean I always fly another airline out of DXB.
@@get2dachoppa249 They fly their 777-200LR without F to my home city (2-2-2). Which is okay in that the cabin is nicer but no chance to upgrade to F. Hope the demand doesn't go too high since they would probably switch it to the dreaded 777-300ER 2 class :(
God that Business class is essentially Cathay's regional business class seat in glitter
Yes, nothing like old glitter to get the party started haha
I agree on a lot of points. We recently had 2 flight to come back from Phuket to Brussels. The seats wasn't the best one even it was a real full flat one. We had only the amenity kit on one of the two flight. The cabin crew said : "oh, it is only for flights to Dubai, not from"... Strange. On Qatar business flights, we had anemities and pyjamas on both of the 2 flights from Brussels to Phuket. The other problem on that business class was the delay between the takeoff (20:00) and the meal serving (22:30). The cabin crew was too busy to put all the "seat covers" for the fully booked business cabin. We felt asleep during the meal service and didn't get the dessert. And so we didn't take that seat cover. It seems there was not enough people to take care of the business passengers. Not a great experience. The worst part of the first flight were the people around. Noisy all the time. Not listening to the cabin crew (no seatbelt during takeoff, lading or at any time).... Seat reclined during take off and landing even the cabin crew ask them several times. Sorry but next time, if the flight is on a 777, I'll choose another company for a business flight.
Sounds about right!
I really enjoy your calm and well balanced flight Reviews! Keep Up the good Work! Greetings from Germany !
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Holy Moly, after Lufty Biz, this Emirates 777 Old Biz, you just need to quickly post a BA Old Club World to make the crap biz class triple crown.
What I REALLY want to do is find one of the old Club World seats with the paper fan style divider on ebay, buy it and then review it 😅
That seat takes me back, WAY back, to American's long haul 777 Business Class seats in the late '90s and early '00s. They were in dreaded 2-3-2 configuration and were "cradle" seats, with 55° of recline. I flew AA 777s twice monthly from Chicago to Tokyo and then London back to Chicago, flying Cathay Pacific around Asia and to Frankfurt, and BA's domestic Business Class to London. Fortunately, I had a ton of free First Class upgrades on AA, so I was able to avoid the cradle seat.
Ah I remember those seats. Did them once from Narita to JFK!
@@tfft You have my sympathy. 🤪
Off topic, but mind if I ask what you did for a living? I'm always fascinated by those kinds of jobs where you fly from Chicago to Tokyo twice per month.
@@TheFishingNomad A complete answer would take a book, so I'll try to keep this a short as possible. I worked for Motorola for 15 years after 10 years at Amoco Oil (now BP). My last 8 years at Motorola were as a member of the Motorola University Consulting Services team. Yes, we had our own Uni for technical engineering and engineering management courses. Motorola invented "Six Sigma" in the early '80s. A super oversimplified description of Six Sigma is using statistical methods for solving business problems. In 1988 (IIRC), Motorola won the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. One of the requirements of winners was to provide benchmarking info to requesting organizations for one year. Rather than deal with tons of individual requests, we hosted monthly conferences that turned out to be very popular. We got so many requests for "can you help us implement Six Sigma in our organization?" that we formed the Consulting Services group. Nothing in the Baldridge Award benchmarking requirement said we had to do it for free. Due to my abilities to think on my feet, function best when as far away from my boss as possible, solve other peoples problems, and communicate effectively with large groups even when their first language wasn't English, had me picking up all of the international opportunities. We were a very small group, very different from the likes of KPMG, Anderson, PwC (a partner) etc., so I developed local Motorola talent in the countries with an existing Motorola presence when business opportunities arose there. Asia came first, starting with 9 months in Korea, followed by Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. The local Motorola reps I was training would ID opportunities and I would fly in for the sales presentations. I wound up booking 50% more business by myself than the entire Chicago-based team that focused on the U.S. Success breeds demands for more, so I was given Europe as well. I would align the sales calls with my travel schedule. Tokyo was just a connection point. Due to the seasonal jet stream variations and aircraft range limits at the time, there was no regularly scheduled service between Chicago and Hong Kong. I'd fly American to Narita, then connect on Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong. I'd then do HK to Singapore or KL, then back to HK to connect to Frankfurt. I'd then do Madrid or Amsterdam or Paris, then on to London, before returning to Chicago on American. In 10 days. 6 nights in hotels. 3 on airplanes. I'd do my laundry at home in Chicago, and then head out again.
@@TheFishingNomad On a separate note, my worst Business Class seat and flight EVER was back in '95 on a United 747 from Chicago to Narita, connecting to another United 747 flight to Hong Kong. This was shortly after United had purchased Pan Am's Asian routes. Common Business Class configurations on the upper deck of a 747-400 were between 28 and 32 seats. United stuck 42 (that's Forty f'ing Two) seats up there. If the person in front of you reclined their seat, you HAD to recline yours. There was no way to get out of a window seat. It sucked SO bad. The only redeeming event on that flight was listening to the very loud fight between one of our United flight attendants and the formerly Pan Am pilots. They wanted their meals served in courses, and the FA impolitely told them that they were United pilots now and they could have their meal all at once on one tray, or not at all. She got a round of applause from all 42 of us when it was over. 😄I was Executive Platinum on American and never tried United again in Asia. On that one flight, I was traveling with a Sr. VP who picked the flights. Pan Am, then United, were super popular with Motorola execs working in China. The Chinese airlines were so bad (e.g., folding chairs in the aisle on oversold flights and generally really poor safety records), that they were permitted to fly from one city in China to another by connecting on Pan Am/United through Narita. Two 4-5 hours Business Class segments instead of one short domestic Economy-only segment each way.
Enjoyed watching this video Kevin,,,,peace and happiness on your travels 😊😊😊😊
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Thanks Kelvin it is a very nice trip report i am enjoy your vlog with my cup off coffee...
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
as always a great report
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Great Job Mate, Well Done...
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Great stuff. Bonus-point for the 'anyhoo', which always makes me laugh. Another for the efficiency of the ad.
Fourteen flights this year for me - more than usual. My back is telling me I must bite the bullet and get some wheelie-luggage.
DO IT! Honestly, no matter the brand, do it. I've been traveling since December 2022 with an injured (and persistantly painful) rotator cuff becuase of bags I used to use. 4 wheels for me, no exceptions.
"There is not enough lipstick in Macy's for this pig!" 😂😂😂
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These seats remind me of my last ever business class flight on EK from like, 20 years ago? A private cocoon design with a personal lamp. It was memorable, but this was in an age before lie-flats became the business class standard.
Someday I'll fly in business class again.
Make sure you get a better seat when you do though! haha
I do understand your concerns, but I used to fly this when we were two (+1 baby without seat allocation) and when we fly it as a family of three with a 9 year old child. And it is just perfect! Quick night flights as we used to do out of Yangon, just wonderful. Daytime or night time flights as three with a little kid, perfect with her in the middle. Obviously the A380 is much better, as newer products such as the last Eithad we took, but kinda inconvenient when your child still likes to sleep next to both of you.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
Thank you so much for this! Very nearly booked a 777 for one leg of my flight but will be steering well clear of it...
Enjoy your trip 🗺️
I enjoyed watching your endorsement of the luggage used on your travels around the world. I am 69 but wisdom is timeless. I remember on tv the same sort of thing when Samsonite would throw a suitcase of theirs from the top of whatever and see it come careening down the pavement and in perfect order, without a scratch!! That is cool. BTW, I used to live in Miami, per my @ on youtube but my wife and I live north of Atlanta. THAT airport is huge. Your videos are so well produced.
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Took that same flight last month. Hated it.
The whole thing? or the seat?
@@tfft honestly, the whole thing. Had the middle 3 row business class seat section(yay middle seat), service was…ok? They completely forgot my partners order, like COMPLETELY forgot, the food was only kinda decent, and WiFi did not work at all even though they accepted my payment. We just ended up being entirely unimpressed by the whole thing. If it were economy seats, I mean whatever we would deal with it because you kinda get what you pay for. But they weren’t.
Maybe it would be better if we were in first class, but I’ll never spring for emirates business again.
Another great Review, Kevin. Thank you so much🙃🙂❤
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
A SMOKING SECTION INSIDE AN AIRPORT LOUNGE??!! Wow…. That takes me back….. The 1990’s called and wants its’ lounge back!
Great video as usual Kevin! I will never understand how such a premium airline still offers this config in 2024 and at that price point. Totally agree with your advice on picking movies beforehand. I always do that regardless of the company (provided they publish and update their catalog online). One airline that has the best feature is SQ as you can select your favourites on their app (or online) and then find them at your seat if you connect your Krisflyer account.
Very true about SQ.
Thank You ✈️
Thanks for watching 🩴
Great review Kevin - We all know that configuration is tired and well behind its use date, Emirates needs to get busy and update those cabins ASAP
Starting* this summer, apparantly.
Great video as always - thank you very much! It's not just the business class that's bad on these 777-300ERs, it's also the economy class. I go out of my way to avoid Emirates in their 777s. The leg room is good, but honestly they are so cramped width-wise. Maybe they really did anticipate armless customers?
Yes, I also had the 'pleasure' of recently experiencing their Economy... Felt like I was wedged in.
When you said the words safety video, I thought to myself that it is high time they came up with a new one. You said so moments later. That old 777 configuration of seat used is one I have often flown in. Thankfully, it has been on daytime 4 to 4.5-hour flights. I have never flown on a non 2-3-2 config on an Emirates 777 business class even on much longer flights. My gripe is the lack of storage around the seat. Very first world. I agree that their garlic bread and their IFE is the best in the sky.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
Emirates tends to use this type of configuration for all of their middleast southeast asia flights. It's okay if you're traveling with a family member but it's certainly a very different product from what you get on their flagship A380s that go from Dubai to London / USA .
Thanks for sharing ✈️
yeah safety video checked lol, 777 engine sound never get old, they are the best especially at start up
Agree!
In BC some airlines compensate the middle seat by making it a "Throne Seat" (bigger).
In a staggered layout perhaps, but not in straight layouts like these.
@@tfft Yeah I wish I could remember where I've seen it. The "Throne seat" is pitched slightly forward too, so your wingmen can't actually see you. Not a bad compensation I think. It's in a chevron configured cabin layout.
Ah I think you’re talking about APEX suites in a 2-3-2. They’re only found on JL’s 777s.
At least EK played the in-flight safety video before take-off (or there'd be a video about it) 😂 😂 😂
(Chauffeur drive was included for layovers when I had a few pre-plandemic; don't know about now as there's been a lot of changes since then and I've not flown Emirates in a few years.)
Without a shadow of a doubt lol.
The good news is that Emirates will refurbish the 777-300er by the summer of 2024, but if you ask me than they should have done that a long time ago.
ALL of their 777s by this summer?!
@@tfft i think around like 50 of them
I was on B777 business seat IST-DXB last week. The seat for sleeping was really comfortable and I slept deeply 98% of the time during that red-eye flight , contrary to what you said. I do agree that aspects like the ancient IFE controller etc. are outdated. The middle seat thing needs to be removed ASAP. Soft product was world-class though.
I'm very suprised you didn't receive the Bulgari amenity kit...I did...and DXB-SGN is surely more than 4 hours...strange!
Likely becuase yours was a redeye. My flight had them stocked for the return from Saigon leaving around 22:00
2:35 Please don't call me Shirley.
Anyway... 🙂 I can confirm those LEVEL8 suitcases are very well made, having collected a decent number to compare to. It's my go-to bag for check-in luggage.
Well surely you have very good taste in luggage 😅
I Dont Like 2-3-2 I Business Class.Great Video And Info
Thanks for watching 🩴
Hi, if possible, pls make a review on Emirates route Dubai - Bali (or vv). Curious with the A380 services on that route. Thank you
Not likely in the near future 😅
Any plan to expand SGN in the near future? The airport looks too small for the city’s size
A new terminal is under construction now, but that's a stop gap waiting for the completely new airport to open which broke ground a few months ago.
Wow! Looks like your Kangaroo hop project is partly done. (Clue - your luggage ad.)
I never post something on the community page until it's done 😉
@@tfft waiting eagerly for the series to drop.
Nice Video Kevin 😄
But I was waiting for Indian Hotel Reviews 😁
Especially Any Marriott Hotel in India😁
You'll be waiting quite a long time then lol
@@tfft I will 😁
Because frankly speaking you are the best Hotel Reviewer 😄❤️
I took Qatar to SGN last November. Q-Suite from Doha to SGN on an A350 and old business class from SGN to Doha on a 777-200. The old business class seats fully reclined and I slept well. The angled recline seats suck. Hard to believe that Emirates still has that seat in their fleet. I'm a Qatar fan. So far, I've been consistently pleased with the experience on Qatar flights.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
OMG. Thank god I found this video. Now I decide that I will choose either Qatar or Etihad or other airlines that don’t offer this 2-3-2 nightmare flying from Shanghai to Europe. 🎉🎉🎉. Thanks for the information. 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for watching 🩴
Egads that 2-3-2 reminds me of the middle seat I got shafted with on PAL business class not long ago. Thankfully an actual lie flat but still, the horror...
Oh I'd much rather have the 2-3-2 on PR... and that's saying a lot lol
Completely agree-what was emirates thinking when they designed this layout?
I have unfortunately had to travel on this aircraft a few times when no A380 was on my routing and even the crew complained about the configuration!
In Saigon? The lane has always only been for Skypriority pax- and sometimes (more and more) they don't even have it when it's very busy. There has never been a general business class line.
The 2-3-2 configuration is the main reason I avoid Emirates. Until they have fully refurbished their fleet, I will continue to stick with Qatar. The tripple 7 is the only option from Oslo, with Qatar using the 787-8 or 787-9.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
I'm surprised you've never been bussed around in Saigon airport b4 O.o
I've flown there so many times as part of my work, with both full service Vietnames and international airlines, and more than half the time I've always had to be bussed to/from the airport terminal.
I’ve been bussed around a hundred times, but never for a flight on a non-Vietnamese full service carrier.
I guess one problem with Emirates immaculately maintaining the cabin is that the seats last longer, so probably won't be retrofitted as soon as you'd like!
This is a very valid point lol
That luggage looks nice. On a trip to Europe my wife's brand new carry on pooped a wheel... after that we swiched to backpacks. If we hadnt though that luggage would be on my list.
Interesting: last November I bought the cheapest hard shell case in the cheapest supermarket “Action” for 28€. 12 check inns later + train rides and cobble stone walks to Airbnb’s… all 4 wheels still there, no cracks and ready for the next trip.
For luggage wheels I find that the durability of them is usually all about how they're mounted- how the wheel mount, is mounted, that is. Often they are attached directly to the suitcase, which is the style that snaps off easily. The better method is having a plate on the inside to match the mount on the outside and then they sandwich the material of the suitcase. These are the style that last years.
Hi Kevin, from your video I see that you stayed at Park Hyatt Chennai. When do we see that one?
You have a good eye, but there won't be a video about it.
100% accurate review Kevin. Spectacular crew, spotless cabin, coffin-esque seat. I flew this same configuration last month from DXB to KWI and MCT to DXB. By far the most uncomfortable business class seat I've ever endured. Thank goodness they were short-haul flights. @10:45 = absolutely true, fellow human. I'm a broad-shouldered guy with 2 arms, and that shi*tshow of an "armrest" still has me seeing my physiotherapist and chiropractor in an attempt to return to normal human form.
Your description of the main Emirates business class T3 lounge is perfect. I too was not impressed. Massive yet cramped and narrow, too spread out, mediocre food at best, and that smoking area permeated way beyond its borders. Hopefully their new digs at DWC in a few years will have massive improvements.
"A few" I think is being optimistic haha. I think we will be lucky to see it in 8-10. No matter how determined they are, 400 gates is A LOTTTT lol
Those seats remind me of the 90s era.
For sure!
EK are moving lock stock and barrel to the other airport (Dubai World Central), as we speak, in a few years there will be no DXB, (or rather the name will be transferred to the new airport), and the site will be redeveloped.
Well, I'd say 'as we speak' is a bit premature... the airport design was approved like 5 days ago lol.
@@tfft Fair comment, I guess, however certain flights already fly from there, it's such a better experience than DXB too - and easier and quicker to get to from The Marina area too.
When did they put 1st class in for the SGN flights??? asking for a friend thanks
I don't think it was actually used.
right when i am about to EAT. Oh god bless LMAO
Hope it still goes down well lol
Based in Miami. Was looking to take this new 5th freedom to bogota but will either pass or splurge for 1st
It almost physically hurts my heart to say it, but catching a 787 or 777 on AV or AA would be more comfortable- inedible food, aside haha.
One thing Dubai airport can copy from Tan Son Nhat and Incheon is having closed doors smoking places in the lounge 😂
Having good crew on-board makes up for the poor siting option or older airplane... I'm sure you would agree
Well in that case I'll say they can all learn from all of the smoke free airports then haha
@@tfft Saigon and Seoul are the only ones I've seen people smoking heavily still... probably because in Europe the government made it hard for people to enjoy smoking on daily basis 😅
@@tfft Or do it like in Istambul, turn certain viewing decks into smaking zones
Does emirates offer slippers in buinsess class? Love your videos, keep them up (-: Can you try an airline called Nile air in Egypt? Thanks
I almost booked Nile Air recently but their flight time was just too hard to digest for me haha. An no, there were no slippers on my flights. Perhaps on the flights with amenity kits.
@@tfft Thanks for your comment! Very helpful, yeah I agree probably emirates only offers slippers for first or nigh flights. HA, ha, ha yeah Nile air has very early and late departures (:True!. Really appreciate that you comment to everyone!
That safety video was played in 2006 when I flew Emirates for the first time I can’t believe they haven’t produced a new one. Also the seat looks the same, super uncomfortable.
Thanks for watching 🩴
which airline wont hate a free marketing content
You would be surprised- I'd say confidently, the majority of them if it means there's a chance they'll be called out for not being amazing.
@@tfft I find your reviews much more balanced than both Josh Cahill and Sam Chui. Not too critical and not too goody
Did they have a $$/miles offer to upgrade to F this time?
F isn't offered to Saigon. The cabin flies empty.
Good food and great in flight service kinda makes up for those god awful seats 😅 Thanks for sharing 🎉😊
That's a very very loose "kinda" lol
Great to see some Cloudy Bay New Zealand wine on the list.
Sure is!
At least you got a video! Lol
Haha yes, fair enough.
nice
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
I guess every destination has different styles; you'd expect less luxury if your destinations were underdeveloped countries! Videos like this are beneficial!
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This business class is the reason why Emirates has not yet achieved 5-star ranking, although they are ranked as the world’s best
On Skytrax? If so, then the reason they haven't received 5 star yet is becuase they haven't paid for it lol
Does the emirates cabin remind anyone else of the burlwood cabins on early 2000s BMWs? Man those have not aged well.
In my previous Emirates video I compared it to a 1998 Jaguar XJ lol
This 'business class' seat configuration on Emirates' B777 is seriously atrocious! And they didn't give you any amenity kit for this 7-hour flight!?! WTH???!!???
Thanks for watching 🩴
Travelled on both the 380 and 777 seats in December… I can understand why solo / duo travellers would hate this seat but since we were a family of 3 with a 3 yr old this was less stressful then flying the 380 where only one of us can look after the 3 yr old… the mattress cover really does save this seat I have to say.
That mattress cover doesn't make the seat flat tho lol
I am a smoker but when travelling i easily manage to not smoking for the entire leg i travel. BUT if the lounge have a smoking area it 100% should be a closed off area. They do have a closed off smoking area in the first class lounges
Appreciate that sentiment.
I have a question ? What do you do for living Kevin ??
You're looking at it lol
well hello im first it seems :)
Well, first and a half perhaps haha
This makes even Qatar's 2-2-2 business look good!
For sure!
A very uncomfortable claustrophobic looking seat, thankfully you were at the window seat and not the middle seat 😅 Bit disappointed in the lack of an amenity kit and the catering. At least the plane was spotlessly clean contrary to the disgusting state of the Lufthansa 747 in your last video…wish I could unsee all the grime and dirt 🤢 Thank you for another wonderful review 🙏🏼
At least if you're gonna give me an old bird, make it a clean one- so yeah, in that regard, EK really does win. Can't say I noticed a single thing out of place on any of the four flights. Thanks for watching 🙏
Not sure why people pay premium to fly emirates. Chauffer meh. United polaris is much more solid product as well as Delta one.
Compared to this seat sure- but when it comes to service, I'd fly literally almost any other airline on earth except United lol
@@tfft hmm they are not the greatest, but not that bad. For me business class mainly for hard product. The food, I am celiac so gf food sucks on any airline. Especially out of the US
Flew airfrance CDG - DTW. Wonderful food service and comfortable seat on A350. Solid.
No flights per year? around 15, Im a food vlogger and videographer so am constantly travelling. Mostly smaler carriers tho
Thanks for sharing ✈️
GREAT points! In my opinion, Emirates is one of the worst airlines when traveling to secondary markets. In Business and especially Economy from DBX are horrible experiences. The airport is overcrowded, the boarding is unorganized...and that is saying it politely. Have you ever tried to board a Sub Continent bound flight? The flight may have only 300 people, but it's like being in the middle of rush hour traffic in Delhi...chaos. Once on board, the service on Business is good (not great like it used to be 8-10 years ago) and Economy is non-existent (especially to those secondary markets or to the Sub-Continent). I had the misfortune of traveling from Dubai to Bangkok on the 777 with the 2-3-2 in business class and as a diabetic asked for an appropriate meal. When meal service happened, I was served a normal meal. I told them I requested a Diabetic meal. They said they didn't have it and brought me some fruit and bread. No apologies, no notes, nothing. That was the last time I flew that disgusting airline...and this was a 3 person business class ticket for my family and myself. They can go to hell and Dubai can go to hell.
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Great content Kev ❤
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Sorry if I missed it… Within 10 years Dubai will fully open a new airport 5 times the size of this one with multiple runways… amazing stuff.
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Kevin, I am just curious if you always succeed to get the biz class immigration “fast lane” . Last time, they only accepted VN biz class 😂
Saigon has never had a general business class fast lane, it has always been just for Skypriority- if and when they choose to open it.
@@tfft , I gladly still pay the 30$ “visa” fast lane fee to them agents. The cues can be horrendous on specific days / hours ( as you know)
welcome to Vietnam :D
Kevin is based in Saigon :)
@@ceevee369 he is Vietnamese ???
No, he is not Vietnamese 😂
Great video Kevin! I’m hoping we catch a glimpse of your unique experience braving those UAE floods, in a future video!
Not for a few months, but yes, an Etihad video coming out about it. One of the few times in my life where I felt concerned in the air- the turbulance was surreal.
I always dread getting on Emirates 777 offering. The seating configuration is terrible and the I pad plonked where I like to rest my arm is ridiculous. I find it difficult to understand how they get this so wrong when they have the marvelous A380 configuration. Sadly the A380 is not used on my flights to the Far East.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
The part about taking a bus in TSN is not that uncommon. Try flying eva air to and from saigon, you will be taking the bus more often than not
Ah, one of the EVA flights is the exception since that aircraft spends the better part of the day in Saigon. Thanks for watching 🩴
What is it with cheese plates on planes and in restaurants. The cheese to crackers ratio is always absurdly off.
So... ask for more cheese or crackers lol.
middle seat in Business is not going to fly (no pun intended ) hehe
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Thank god for first class 😂
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Instead of just doing away with the smoking area in the lounge in DXB they will just transition completely to Al Maktoum with 150 million passengers capacity.
Sure, but not like those 400 gates are going to be built next year lol.
25:22 threw me back to 1991, first trip to SGN. Bussed from a B-747 of Air France . Totally forbidden to take pictures at the tarmac. ( but I did…) Got fined 3 days later 2,000 Dong because I was caught in another PROVINCE without a visum.
How did you enter the country if you didn't have a visa...? lol
@@tfftyour ignorance is not LOL: in those days you needed a visum to enter the country. But you also needed to apply to travel to another province. Each such application cost money and 3 days. You could not make a list, for example for a road trip.
Early individual travellers who did not book an organised tour with the state organisation, and showed up at the railway station to travel long haul, had to show all the separate visa for each province.
So when I showed up in Thay Ninh unanounced, I got caught and fined.
And at Moc Bai border crossing, I was kind of arrested by an officer and explained in perfect German ( guess where he learned that?!?) that my stay there could be much longer than intended - let’s say some months. The camera was opened and film exposed. Other film rolls were confiscated and sent to “ the office” for inspection.
So no, you did not joke around with those guys. No LOL.
Ooof, lighten up a bit. My apologies for not knowing the Vietnamese entry procedures when I was a child.
@@tfftit is okay. Written language is so often misunderstood. You do not have to excuse yourself. And I am cool. 😎. With ignorance I meant just what it means: you did not know. So you could not know how harsh it was to travel around those days. Very frustrating sometimes. I still have the fine in my travel collection: 2,000 dong when it was 13,000D/$ . That is the fun part
What passengers other than international passengers would DXB even serve? Non-stops to AbuDhabi? Sharjah? Silliness.
I never suggested they did...
@@tfft I didn’t suggest you did. It was a comment that the statistic is silly and meaningless. In my opinion, of course. The more pertinent one is total number of passengers. Another more interesting statistic would be the total number of O&D passengers vs. the total connecting passengers. Dubai is essentially like Singapore or Hong Kong in many ways, and the hub for many/most people traveling to/from North America and Europe to South Asia. By essentially one airline and its subsidiary.
Emirates have a good economy class , a wonderful premium and an amazing first class.
But their business class product in the 777 is poor & at best for the 380 dated.
* the
Product NOT the service
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Almost 1st.
Don't worry, equally as close to 4th 😅 Thanks for watching 🩴
Get ready to experience the next generation of Emirates aircraft. We've just announced the first 9 destinations that will be served by our brand new A350:
Bahrain - 15 September
Kuwait - 16 September
Mumbai - 27 October
Ahmedabad - 27 October
Edinburgh - 4 November
Muscat - 1 December
Lyon - 1 December
Bologna - 1 December
Colombo - 1 January, 2025
FYI, best book soon....
...or just wait lol
Correction. Saigon always gets the Dinosaur. Too expensive, too old, and fully in agreement with your points regarding the lounge.
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Some airlines make their business class bad on purpose so that more people would pay extra for first class.
And which airlines would those be?
Welp. Here’s hoping Emirates reinstates flights with first class to Saigon.
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Maybe people in the UAE are immune to Lung and Throat Cancer hence the smoking section? Some of these more up market airlines have cigar bars too which is pretty appalling considering the medical knowledge we have these days about the damage that smoking does.
Maybe people in the UAE *think* they are immune lol.
idk, doesn't really bother me. I am okay with that seat. A lot better than flying economy isn't it?
Sure, but why are we comparing it to economy lol
Thats not business class. Thats premium economy.
Well, I'd still take this over any premium economy if the price was the same lol
Damn, then what's economy? A park bench?
Premium economy definitely sucks more because the person in front of you can still recline onto your face. Premium economy is basically economy from the 90s
I deducted 4 points because there were too many cashews in the mixed nuts. Cashews are the crack of nuts.
I didn't see any macadamia so that's anther 3 point deduction smmfh
But there were pistachios so that's +9...
For all the crap that this seat gets, I just come back to this, it is still better and more comfortable than economy.
Well, yeah of course lol. I'm not comparing it to economy 😅
So thorn on those seats, they just look awful. I’m looking for a good flight to Nairobi from Frankfurt or Zurich. But all connections just offer terrible equipment and an awful hard products on the main leg from their hubs (Emirates, Qatar, Turkish..)
LX, KL, AF...?
The seats look so cramped and it's like there is no room for arm rest.
Also their IFE looks so outdated like they still keep the skeuomorphic design, while others have flat design now. At least their movie selections are good
I remember the graphics looking pretty sharp and modern on my game changer flight. I wonder if they used an updated version or if they just looked better on a much better screen.
@@tffti don't mean it's low resolution, it's just the design of their philosophy. Like the rest has flat design while Emirate still has to old school skeuomorphic design (which is like more shadow, depth in the UI elements)
Yes, that's always what I was talking about lol.
it'll be 100x worse if someone was sitting next to you
108x I reckon!
As a human with basic human arms, I’m disappointed!
Lol