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- A super busy day at Heathrow, I think the crowds are back
and everybody's is travelling.
It's great to see such a great rebound, very, very busy.
And now I'm off to Ireland, my first time visiting Ireland.
Looking forward and to flying Aer Lingus.
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This is the Aer Lingus flight I'm going on.
This lounge has a great view
but all these stuff in front really hinders it.
I wish they remove all these stuff
and we'll have a great runway view.
Well, I'm just coming out of the lounge,
very little food in the lounge.
There was only some biscuits, a soup.
And travelling with a friend today to Ireland, Charles.
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- Well, I swear to God, this was not a setup.
Just got an upgrade like this.
What a welcome gift for me to go to Ireland, very lucky.
So while we're waiting to leave,
I moved down the seats to another empty seat down here.
And this business class happens
actually sold as a economy plus like a premium economy.
I know at least there's one or two flights
with this configuration that runs
from London to Dublin every day.
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(engines whirring)
So the crew are really, really friendly
but the airline has a policy, you cannot film them,
or film any crew, their faces.
They gave me a sandwich 'cause I was really hungry
and I have a cup of tea
and yeah, 50-minute flight, that's it.
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(engines purring)
(plane rattling at landing)
Just landed, I'm glad that I am not on Ryanair
to visit Ireland because I know Ryanair
is the biggest carrier from Ireland.
I'm glad I flew Aer Lingus today
and I'm going to spend two days sightseeing around
the Isle and go to the cliff and those outer cities.
And then we back on Aer Lingus again, fly to Toronto.
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So we came straight out from the airport,
went to the spotting mound here
- Really reminds me of Imperial Hill at LAX.
Just looking for some China
Southern triple seven freighters.
- (chuckling) But we do have all Aer Lingus
and Ryanair here.
(jets engines revving)
Would you prefer the old colour, the green colour,
or actually the white colour of Aer Lingus?
- I prefer the green, by far.
Proper Irish and of course, that is shamrock.
And now I think Aer Lingus will have such an Irish identity.
- Good morning, surprise, surprise.
What a beautiful day in Ireland.
Last night I stated this beautiful B&B.
Now I'm going to go in to enjoy an Irish breakfast.
Then we're going to get on the road for some sightseeing.
What's the difference between Irish breakfast
and English breakfast?
- We're in Ireland.
- Right, very nice answer. (man chuckling)
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Driving on the village road, on the countryside of Ireland
is actually a beautiful site, beautiful day.
We drove to the middle of nowhere in Ireland,
but it's a stunning castle behind us.
There's a question this site, we must be very lucky today.
Is the weather always like this?
- Always, in Ireland, yeah,
I think about 300 days a year of sunshine, at least.
- 300 days a year of sunshine. - It's a tropical paradise.
- I believe you, yeah.
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And today I met my first YouTube manager, Connor.
And Connor was instrumental in 2016,
persuaded me to join YouTube,
to start doing full-time YouTube
and that's how my channel grew, and this is the man behind.
- (speaking foreign language),
it means a million welcomes to you guys.
- What's your favourite aeroplane, Connor?
- I would say the 757, I've flown Shannon to New York on it
and it's incredible aircraft.
- And this is my gift for you.
- No way.
- It's my latest book, "Air 747."
Well, I hope you get to fly a 747, it's not too late.
- One day. - There's still a few.
Lufthansa still flies it, yeah, there you go.
- I did Malaysia Airlines a few years ago.
- Great.
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- So we're here in Shannon Airport,
which I've always thought is quite an interesting airport.
It's sort of a frontier town,
especially back in the old days, it was very underdeveloped
compared to the east coast of Ireland.
In fact, when Aer Lingus started flying here
with jets to North America in 1960,
most of West Ireland wasn't even electrified.
So you'd fly in a jet
and then you'd go to a house and live by candlelight.
What's interesting is that to help with the development
of the west coast, every flight that came from
the United States to Ireland had to stop here by law.
You couldn't just fly a Dublin, you had to go US,
Shannon, Dublin and same in return, Dublin, Shannon, USA
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- Here we are after a beautiful country drive
and just arrive at Cliff of Moher.
That's the Ireland I want to see, and I guess
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(digital beeping)
- Good morning, I'm back at Dublin Airport,
today flying out of beautiful country, Ireland.
Had a fantastic stay, really lovely people
and really wonderful sites.
Now I'm going to fly on Aer Lingus transatlantic.
At the airport, I just met up two Aer Lingus cabin crew.
Where you guys came from?
- I just came from New York right now.
- Oh, you just flew from New York.
Has it been a good flight?
- Yeah, it was actually.
- Avery 30. - Avery 30, yes.
- You know, I love the Shamrock, the green colour ones.
- [Cabin Crew 1] Beautiful, actually.
- [Sam] But you're not from Irish, I hear your accent.
- We're both Spanish. - Spanish.
Yeah. (men laughing)
- I'm Lona. - And I'm Malachi.
- I thought this would be an Irish crew on this airline.
How long you been working for?
- Actually since 2019, and he was --
- 2018.
- Oh really, like it?
- Yeah. - Yeah, I like so far.
- I can't wait today, my first long-haul flight, Aer Lingus.
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I'm in the Aer Lingus lounge
and it's got a great view of the apron
and I got carried away plane spotting a little bit.
Lounge is rather simple, there's two floors
and there's unlimited food and there's only a soup
and some biscuit and some cake.
In Dublin here, there's also a US pre-clearance
so you can clear and then arrive
at domestic flight in the US.
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So while I'm waiting we're waiting to board
our flight to Toronto, I met a legend here, Dan is here.
He actually flew on the very first
Air Canada 747 as a press.
And then later you flew on the Wardair 747.
If anyone knows what Wardair is?
What do you think about Aer Lingus?
- I wish they'd use a 330 on this flight rather than a 320.
- But you came on the 321, you came on that.
So this is the thing, how is it like to sit long haul
in six, seven hours in the economy like that?
- Well, when the food carts and the beverage carts
get rolling, then the washrooms are unavailable
because everything is in the rear,
unless you're flying business class up front
but it's generally a well-operated flight.
They make lots of announcements, the crew is very friendly.
They do anything for you.
And my wife lost an earring on the way over
and we waited and they went down and they hunted
under the seats for her earring.
But anyway, we couldn't find it, it wasn't expensive.
Getting to Ireland back in the day was so much fun.
You would book through a club
or some kind of a sports association
and you would get very cheap flights over on 707.
- But you're a legend now.
Aren't you glad you've flown on all the 707's?
Who else would've a chance to fly on these old 70's?.
- Everywhere like black smoke coming out of the engines,
roaring down their runway for miles before they took off.
You wondered if everybody had bought too much
at the duty free and the plane would never take off.
Yeah, but 707's were a great plane.
The wings were wobbling and the noise,
the noise was incredible.
I always liked to sit in the back
and the noise was just horrendous.
- Unbelievable noise.
Single body transatlantic, here I come again.
Seven hours, let's see how that goes.
(plane engine humming)
(faint speaking over intercom)
So this is the same plane I flew from London to Dublin.
the 321neo long-range, full-flap business class.
Today, our whole flight's full, completely full.
Let's put that to a stress test.
I swapped the seats with another passenger
because they want to sit together.
One thing I have noticed now on the short,
single-aisle flights, the boarding takes longer
because the doubled aisle has two aisles,
the boarding takes much faster.
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(engine humming)
(engine revving)
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Two and a half hours after take off, just finished lunch.
Lunch is beautifully presented.
Very nice salmon, beef, a little bit aged,
a little bit cooked, a little bit well-done on the beef
but overall it was a great meal.
I did ask for a Guinness beer but didn't have it.
They said it's due to pressure problem on the air cabin.
I think that was just so funny.
But I enjoyed lots of red wine.
So now just trying to lay flat
to take a nap across the Atlantic.
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Whether you like it or not,
the smaller aeroplane are dominating the sky.
There's going to be more Avery 21 coming
'cause I know Air Canada, United,
they have all ordered Avery 21 extra-long range,
which will come after certification in 2023.`
So sooner or later, the transatlantic
is going to be more these kind of narrow-body plane.
The upside of this is you can do direct flights.
You can do very few routes direct flight,
or you don't have to go to connecting busy airport
like London, Heathrow or JFK anymore.
But the downside is that it's narrower, it's not twin aisle.
And if you have very bad head wind,
it can fly a little bit slower, maybe half an hour slower.
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- [Woman Over Intercom] We are now in our final approach.
We'll be touching down in the next couple of minutes,
so we'd recommend a final check on your seatbelt, please.
(engines humming)
- Here's my final thought.
I think the Avery 21 LR and XLR might become
a dominant transatlantic fleet in the future,
given they have the right size and the right range.
I have a wonderful transatlantic flight
on Aer Lingus in business class,
but I can only hope all the airlines in the world
can adopt a better leg room in economy class
on these Avery 21 long-range aeroplane trans ocean.
Thank you for watching today.