- 6 o' clock at Dubai Airport.
Today I'm flying on the world's shortest A380 flight from Dubai to Muscat.
Let's go!
Hello, nice to meet you. - (Mumbles).
- [Man with cap] Where are you going?
- We're going on the world's shortest A380 flight.
- Nice to meet you.
Where are you going to?
- We're going on the shortest A380 flight to...
- Oh yeah; to... - ...To Muscat. Yeah.
Lots and lots of people.
This is the peak time in the terminal.
6 AM - every plane has arrived.
Every plane is now waiting to go out, so there are so many passengers at the terminal right now.
Wow, look at all of the A380s right behind me.
This morning, all of the gates are filled with A380s.
And what I like about this lounge is that they have a shoe shining service here, but
too bad, I have new shoes today.
Sorry.
I think I'm going to have breakfast here before I go on the flight because the flight is so
short, so it's better to have breakfast in the lounge.
They have some dim sum here also, buns - nice; a mixture of Indian, Asian and Western.
This is called "fatayer" - this is Arabic.
Thank you very much. - My pleasure.
- The Emirates first class lounge always does a really great breakfast.
I really love this omelette here - it's called a masala omelette.
A masala omelette is served with chilli, with lots of great taste and with chilli powder inside.
- Try some. - Is this chilli from Kenya?
- No, no, this is from Kenya.
This is not... try it.
- Okay.
Oh, I think that this is very strong!
I'm going to have fire coming out of my mouth!
This is funny - this is just so nice.
Some people just offered me some chilli powder to put on the omelette to try.
So I'm going to trust him and try a little bit of this chilli powder.
Spicy, spicy!
Fire's coming out - spicy!
So, usually I film everything myself but today I have the luxury of a videographer joining
me on the journey.
He's filming me when I was filming the plane and everything, so he's doing behind the scenes,
filming me when I work.
- [Man] Hello. - Hey, how are you?
- Very well.
I just wanted to ask you to go on his Instagram as well.
- Sure, sure.
- (Mumbles).
- What's your name? - Ashton.
- Ashton - where are you from Ashton?
- Australia.
- Okay, thank you very much. Bye. - Thank you. Bye. Have a nice flight, see you.
- You know, today's gate's really, really far.
It took me almost 20 minutes to walk down this way from terminal 3.
It's almost like half the length of the flight.
The flight is 40 minutes to Muscat but it took 20 minutes just to walk to the gate!
Guys, you know where to find the av geeks - the av geeks are all staring out of the
window because they are looking at the A380.
Here's Chera and...
- Lays.
- ...Lays or "Skywardsfreak."
Are you guys excited to fly on the world's shortest flight?
- [Lays] Of course. - [Chera] Yeah, of course.
- Lays is probably a bigger fan than I am.
She is the number one Emirates fan.
Look at her shirt here - Skywardsfreak on her shirt.
Oh, more!
Look at this!
Emirates Airline...
Oh my God - this is an Instagram text!
So guys, if you go to her Instagram - Skywardsfreak - you can see all that she has done.
She's done crazy stuff.
She's done, like, Christmas decorations, all the challenges...
- Oh yeah!
- What is this?
- It's the pyramid challenge.
- Let's try and do a challenge. - Okay! - All right.
So this flight used to operate on a 777-300 ER.
When they upgraded to an A380, I was questioning why they would need an A380 to fly on such
a short flight but you can tell how crowded it is here at the gate.
I think that they just have lots and lots of people - there's a lot of traffic going there.
Are you ready for the world's shortest flight?
Follow me! Let's go!
The blue one - the Dubai World Expo 2020.
Hi. - [Both] Good morning! - [Man] Welcome aboard!
- [Woman] Mr Chui? - Yes.
- Welcome, this is our first Emirates A380 flight to Muscat.
Your seat will be on the right.
- Alright, thank you.
Hello guys. - [Both] Hello.
- [Sam] How are you doing? - How's it going?
- This is my seat - 20K.
You see my day pack here?
It fits in actually, in to the side bin, easily.
Just like that.
So, this is the famous first class shower and spa.
I don't think that you have time - a 40 minute flight - is there time for a shower and spa?
Come inside - I'll show you.
Wow!
Huge, isn't it?
A huge amount of space here.
And the shower is right here.
This is the shower.
Oh, it's wet actually.
Someone must have taken a shower just before.
The air traffic in Dubai can sometimes be really bad.
Sometimes it takes longer than the actual flying time of this flight, just taxiing to
the active runway, to take off.
- I'm Siram. - From Oman? - Yeah.
- Omani, going home? - Yeah, going home.
- Where did you fly from?
- From Morocco.
- From Morocco? - Baku, Baku.
- From Baku? Holiday? - Yeah.
- We're on holiday. - Good time? - Yeah.
- You guys know that this is the first A380 flight to Muscat, today?
- Yeah, we know. - The first one.
You know? That's why you are flying. - Yeah.
- Awesome, awesome.
Nice to meet you!
- Nice to meet you. - Alright.
- Would you like some breads? - A croissant please.
- Croissant, sure.
- Incredible, for a 40 minute flight, you still have a full tray of fruit, bread, croissants,
a hot drink and also a cold plate with cheese and meat.
I just wish that every airline did this on a 40 minute flight.
So, we have just 20 minutes until we land.
I need to hurry up and finish my meal!
This is crazy short - because I'm having so much fun here you know, there are so many
things to do here...
- [Announcement] Ladies and gentlemen...
- Okay. The announcement's on so we're going to put our seat-belt on.
- We will be landing shortly so please return to your seat and make sure that your baggage
is under the seat in front of you or in the overhead locker.
- [Announcement] Cabin crew, thank you - prepare all of the doors and cross-check.
- So, at the Emirates duty free shop, I bought this beautiful 1:400 model.
This is the green Dubai Expo 2020 model.
So this is a giveaway - at the end of the video, please go to the giveaway link in the
description of this video and enter the competition.
How was, how was the flight? - Good.
- Good. - Actually...
- Too short? - Too short, yeah.
- Too short.
- I think maybe two more loops!
- But I think that it's an experience, isn't it?
- And it's an inaugural flight.
- That's right.
- I always love an inaugural flight.
- It's an inaugural flight, that's right, that's very true.
Look at these cards - every single member of the crew.
How many crew do we have on board today, Lays?
- 27.
- 27 crew on this A380, 40 minute flight.
Every member of the crew gets one of these special thank you cards signed by Lays, on
her 143rd A380 Emirates flight.
- They make me fly better, so it's the minimum I can do!
- Oh my goodness.
What a nice treat!
Oh look at this, this is the gift that you are giving.
A little jar of Nutella.
- So this is for you guys and for the pilot as well.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you.
- So captain, I just want to know - you've flown us today to Muscat.
- Yes.
- How long was the duration of the flight, from take-off to landing?
- We were air-borne for 40 minutes.
- 40 minutes?
- Four, zero yep. - 40 minutes.
And what was the speed and cruising altitude that we were doing?
- We only cruised at 19,000 feet.
We normally cruise up at 35 or 36,000 feet because...
- Yeah, Flight level 400 or 410... - That's right, that's right.
But because of the length of the flight, it was a 190, 19,000.
- 19,000 on an A380 is quite low.
- Yeah, that's right. - Yeah.
- And again the speed was, was very low as well.
About 270 knots when we normally do about 330.
- About Mach, Mach 60 something.
- Yeah, just over Mach 0.6.
- Well, thanks for flying me and this made in to the historical record books for me.
- That's right.
- The world's shortest A380 flight.
- Excellent, thanks for coming.
- Thanks very much.
Did you have a good flight?
How was this flight?
- It was good.
I mean, it's my fourth A380 but I keep travelling to Muscat.
- Oh.
- (mumbles) taking this flight for the first, it's always a pleasure really.
So, happy.
- It's going to be better.
It's going to be A380 from now on.
- Exactly - since Muscat is my second home, after Dubai, I keep travelling frequently
and so I never miss the A380 anymore.
- Right. Welcome to Muscat.
- Thank you so much. Happy to see you.
Thank you so much.
- For you. - Thank you.
- [Sam] Look at this - wow!
Certificates!
I collect certificates!
- Sam, that's for you.
- Thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you so much.
- [Cherag] Thank you very much.
- [Sam] Oh my God, what an accomplishment!
- [Cherag] This is so cool.
- [Lays] Thank you, thank you Emirates.
- Welcome to Oman and I hope that you enjoy your - I understand - short stay.
But we hope to welcome you again and again and again.
All the best, thank you.
(Audience claps)
- Congratulations Emirates for accomplishing the world's shortest flight,
40 minutes from Dubai to Muscat.
Thank you so much for flying us - congratulations guys!
(Audience claps)
- Oh my God!
This is Emirates red!
- Yeah, yeah.
- You know, this is my first time!
- Really?
- Putting lipstick on me (mumbles).
- It's not super, super red but...
- I need to whiten my teeth to become a flight attendant on Emirates!
- You look good!
You look good! - Alright? - Yeah.
- You look good! Look!
- Look at this!
- I made some friends along the way.