- (unanimous) Welcome aboard!
(upbeat tones)
- Lemonade, raspberry juice, orange juice, or water?
- Hello, Mr. Chui, welcome aboard.
- [Female Flight Attendant) Lemonade?
(pause)
- [Male Flight Attendant] Very cool. Ooh!
You've just blew it. Wow!
(pause)
Oh my God, this is too nice. - [Chef] In the air?
(flight ascending)
- Ta dah!
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
Yey! (light applause)
I'm with Nayhad.
He's the Turkish Airlines Exclusive Drive limousine driver.
He's gonna take me to the airport
to fly on Turkish Airlines.
There's some good news.
If you are flying Turkish Airline business class
to and from the U.S., you might be eligible
for their new Exclusive Drive service.
(pause)
- [Speaker] Turkish Airlines.
A Star Alliance member used the Star Alliance LAX.
As you can see this lounge won
the Skytrax's Best Alliance Lounge four years in a row.
Let's check out why this lounge is so good.
The lounge has both indoor and outdoor sitting area.
The best part of the lounge is actually
at the end of my visit, I will show you in my video.
(relaxing music)
- They have outdoor terrace here.
The sun just went down and the fires came out
and it's beautiful.
The weather's a little chilly here
so the fires behind keep me warm
and as you can see you got a beautiful airport view,
a terminal view of Tom Bradley terminal.
So check out the Star Alliance Lounge when you're in LAX,
the outdoor section.
- [Speaker] This video,
I'll show you the second part
of my Turkish Airlines journey, from L.A. to Istanbul.
This time I decided to check out economy class
and also I'm gonna show you more behind-the-scenes stuff,
so it's not unusual flight video.
- So I'm with some fellow passengers.
Introduce your self, where are you from?
- My name is Varis, I'm from Turkey originally
but I've lived in Las Vegas and I go
to Turkey once a year with Turkish Airlines usually.
- There you go, lucky to meet you today.
- Yeah, you too.
- And sir, where are you from?
- I'm Atosain, I'm going to Iran.
- Oh you're going to Iran.
Iran's one of my favourite countries.
Great! Great to meet you guys.
What do you think about Turkish Airlines
since you're from Turkey?
- I think it's one of the best airlines in Europe.
I flew with a lot of different airlines
and I really like the food, and the multi-media.
And then all the crew is really helpful,
so I prefer it over many other airlines.
- Oh yeah naturally, you like your home airline.
- Well what do you think about Turkish airlines?
- Turkish Airline is good.
- You gotta be honest though.
If you don't like it you say simply you don't like it.
Don't say it for the sake of the camera.
- Turkish Airlines is good and I usually
take the Turkish Airline.
- Yeah, because you go to Iran,
so it's a good connection from Istanbul to Tehran.
(pause)
- Hello, would you like to have your meal?
We have chicken and fish right now.
- [Passenger] I'll take chicken please.
- Of course.
(pause)
- Your meal, here you are. - [Passenger] Thank you.
- [Flight Attendant] Would you like to have something
to drink with your meal?
- Do you still have the homemade lemonade with mints?
- Of course. (pause)
- That's very special.
(in foreign language) This is quite special.
Thank you very much.
Enjoy. (folding tin foil)
- [Passenger] Oh that looks really decent.
Okay, so we got chicken or fish.
- [Flight Attendant] Would you like to have your bread?
- Oh, no thank you.
- [Flight Attendant] What about for you sir?
(pause)
Would you like your bread?
- [Passenger] Okay, thank you.
(pause)
- One more good thing about Turkish Airlines.
They use the metal colouring, they don't use the plastic.
So even the knife, the knife is metal.
(pause)
I'm enjoying it, this is a really good fish.
It's like a sea bass.
(pause)
So here's the thing about Turkish Airlines.
When I knew I'm gonna fly Turkish,
I couldn't connect myself with Turkish, I found it weird.
I don't know the language,
I don't know what the people look like,
but slowly, slowly it melts away.
The barriers melt away,
and I found that people are very charming, very generous,
and having a good time here, right?
Right? (laughs)
You're not having a good time.
I'm laughing all the time, but he's like suffering.
He want me to leave.
Everybody looks photogenic standing next to me, alright?
So, I have the beautiful Katie Perry of Turkish Airline.
Okay, what's your name Katie?
- I'm Meliha.
- Meliha - Meliha.
- How long you flew with Turkish Airline, tell me.
- Actually, I have been working here two and a half years.
- Oh that's too long, two and a half years.
- Yeah- - Too long.
You look like two months old.
(pause)
- Fill water, this one.
(pause)
Foam, very important. Part of coffee.
(pause)
- [Chef] Now it's dinner-
- [Flight Attendant] Sam's already going.
(pause)
- Coffee is first, first-
(pause)
- This one- (pause)
- That last.
- How did you make this- - Should be, yes-
- Full of hot water.
- Yep.
- Wanna do a temperature check?
- No it's good. - Good? Good.
(pause)
- Got this authentic Turkish coffee, inside the cup.
(pause)
Okay, here we go. (pause)
Now the key is to stir until the foam appear in your cup.
(pause)
- Again, a moment of truth.
Coffee's always served with the water, a Turkish delight.
(pause)
- There you go.
- [Crew Member] Okay, chef sends creation.
(pause)
- Okay?
- Doesn't look really like coffee. (light laugh)
(pause)
- Ahhhh! Oh my God!
Wonderful! What a friend!
My name's- - I have no money to pay you.
(mild laughter)
- No need to, it's really delicious.
- Oh my God!
So I actually learned something.
I ventured in and followed a Turkish coffee chef-
- [Crew Member] It's better than bartending.
- Finally, I'm gonna get a job now.
- I'm going to show you how we are preparing
the fried eggs for our customers with the egg yolks.
We already heated the casseroles.
They are nice and hot at the moment.
What we have to do is adding the egg whites first.
- [Crew Member] So these are the egg-whites.
- [Chef] Yes, we already separated whites and yolks,
about five minutes ago.
So we adding them right now. (pause)
Already prepared our egg-whites.
Right now, all we have to do is adding our egg yolks.
- [Crew Member] Oh yeah, the egg-whites-
- [Chef] Can I get two more? (pause)
- [Crew Member] So there's a lot of yolk here.
It's already in the cup.
- [Chef] Yes.
- [Crew Member] Already separated,
you're just putting on top.
- [Chef] Yes. Okay, there you go.
- [Crew Member] Oh, so each dish come with two yolk.
- [Chef] Yes. - [Crew Member] Lots of eggs.
(pause)
- [Chef] Alright, perfect, there you go.
- [Crew Member] I imagine the dish is very hot right now,
coming out of the oven.
- [Chef] Yes.
- [Crew Member] How long more inside the oven?
- [Chef] Two minutes, tops, and we will let it sit
until the serving time.
- [Crew Member] So this is after two minute, now?
- [Chef] Yes, our fried egg is ready-
- [Crew Member] Let's see how our egg's doing.
- [Chef] See? Nice and creamy.
- [Crew Member] Wow! It looks good.
- [Chef] Over easy right now? - [Crew Member] Looks good!
- Sunny side up. - [Chef] Yes.
- [Crew Member] And now some topping.
Last touch is the freshly chopped chives.
(relaxing music)
- I have all the lovely crew on TK
from Los Angeles to Istanbul.
Say hi to my viewers. - [Unanimously] Hi!
Alright, it's been such an honour
and pleasure to fly with you guys.
You guys have no idea how much I'm in love
with Turkish Airline right now.
- When I go home I'll just keep telling
my mom about Turkish Airlines. (unanimous laughter)
If you love to say something in Turkish
to my viewer please do so.
(unanimously in foreign language)
Okay, I have no idea what that means,
hopefully something nice! (laughter)
(relaxing music)
Did you enjoy your flight?
- Yes.
- What was the good thing about Turkish Airlines
you enjoyed about?
Well you're Turkish so you say a good thing
about Turkish Airline naturally. (light laugh)
Say something critical, say something not so nice.
- Not so nice?
- Oh, there's nothing not so nice?
- Yeah, I don't think so.
- Oh my gosh, so you enjoyed the flight too?
- Yeah- - You're well rested.
- And I enjoyed the meals the most-
- Okay- - Yeah.
- I see. The chef is right there.
- Yeah! (laughs) - So, he's happy.
Alright, good to know you're not under pressure as well.
Not under pressure's sake. (laughs)
Hey chef, come in the camera.
- [Chef] I'll come over-
- It's right there. Photo of us.
- Invite him to have dinner with your-
- Alright, yeah- - She also cooks.
- Okay, watch out Turkish college student,
I'm coming. (mutual laughter)
Alrighty, and thank you it's been a huge pleasure.
And love Turkish Airline. Goodbye.
(relaxing music)