Hello, my name is Paul Stewart and I'm currently in New Zealand! Now I know what you're thinking, Paul you're not a Kiwi!
You don't speak with a bizarre accent and that's true. I'm an Australian and we don't think we have an accent at all!
I'm just visiting New Zealand for the weekend and
coming up is my flight from Sydney through to Christchurch in a Boeing 737 with Qantas! Actually
It's their New Zealand subsidiary Jet Connect or Jit Cinnict or Jut Connuct. I'm not sure how it's pronounced...
This video is part one from a weekend trip to New Zealand which is somewhere
I'd like to visit quite regularly. Check-in happened at this new fang dangle self check-in kiosks, and then I headed off through customs.
I didn't film that part as taser barbs are surprisingly uncomfortable.
Here I am filming again as I head up to the lounge. An economy ticket usually won't get you in here
Although I'm fortunate enough to fly quite regularly and have obtained platinum status a few months ago.
I've made a separate tour through the Qantas first class lounge
which is honestly one of the best in the world and I'll put a link to that video below
I snagged a quick bite and sat back and enjoyed the view. This A380 is QF7 enroute to Dallas.
My mind is constantly blown considering the fact that this very tin can will be hurtling through the air at 40,000 feet
Across the largest ocean in the world and in over 14 hours, land in Texas! The plane perving continued with this rare
Mcdonnell-douglas md-11. I don't think there's any passenger versions of these flying
Although there's still quite a few freighters around. I think this one had just arrived from Hawaii.
I had a brief intermission in the day spa and then the plane spotting continued with this beauty
Qantas are retiring all of these old birds over the next two years
I'll include a link to my most recent video in a Qantas 747 below. Oh and now here's our aircraft, a much smaller Boeing
737-800 parking behind this Qatar 777. The fight was called and we headed for the gate.
Now clearly the autofocus failed, so here is a blurry business cabin and then my seat 4A at the front of economy.
I'll go through the seat in a little more detail and mention the pros and cons
Now one of the biggest pros for this little avgeek is the wing view of the wing and engine.
There's also a decent amount of legroom
So if you're agile, you should be able to sneak past your neighbour without interrupting them
There are these power plugs and two USB ports, which you share with your neighbor and the TV screen folds up from below
There's a table hidden in the armrest and above are reading lights and importantly air vents keeping the top of my head nice and cool!
The buttons for the in flight entertainment are down here,
If you don't want to use a touchscreen, and here's the headphones. Now as I mentioned before I fly enough to reach platinum status
So I was fortunate enough to have been given some headphones from business and an amenity kit, which I'll be giving away later
So keep an eye out for that later on.
The aerobridge withdrew and the slats on the leading edge of the wings were extended. A shout-out to subscriber
Mr Keith Smith who I know loves these scenes.
Ahead of us was an Air New Zealand A320 off to Auckland and then it was our turn.
Now the takeoff footage was frankly quite disastrous thanks to dirty windows and the angle of the sun.
So I've used some tricky editing and let me know what you think.
Keen avgeeks may have noticed a slight discrepancy because well, obviously the weather is clearer and a few other minor details.
But be nice to me, I'm suffering from a cold as you may have noticed from my voice.
We turned east and headed out over northern Sydney
Now one of the
disadvantages of row 4 is that you can't access the in-flight entertainment
Until after you've taken off which I imagine might be a problem
If you're not the type that spends the entire takeoff staring out the window.
Now the content is perfectly reasonable and the quality of the screen is fine. It's not amazing, but OK.
The view out of the window on the other hand was pretty outstanding as we were flying away from the Sun
We got some pretty great sunset colours.
Dinner was served and I selected the pork noodles dish and a Pinot Grigo from the Murrumbidgee region out near
Wagga Wagga in rural New South Wales. It's obviously not gourmet, but it was fine for economy.
Dessert was this boysenberry and coconut bar, which tasted great and I had a fantail I'd kept from the lounge.
You may not be able to see it
But these are special Qantas fantails and this particular question
Was the name of the Catalina flight from Perth to Sri Lanka during World War two this
30 hour nonstop flight has a particular name and comment below if you know what it was.
If you're not sure
You might be able to find out the answer from my Longreach Qantas founders museum video from a few months ago
Now before we knew it
We had crossed the South Island's coastline and Christchurch had come into view. My landing footage was as bad as the take-off footage, so
I'll sneak in some New Zealand views from my trip
2018 has been a great year for me and this channel and I'd like to thank everyone please join me on the journey and wish
You all a Merry Christmas
I caught up with youtubers Dennis Bunnik and Jed Brooks just recently and we all feel so flattered that people love our nerdy aviation videos.
While you continue to enjoy some sweet uz views from New Zealand, and I hope you appreciate that incredibly accurate Kiwi accent,
I'll summarize the flight. The crew were really good and were typical of the wonderful Kiwi hospitality
I've experienced many times
The positives of row 4 are the extra legroom, the wing view and you can get off the plane faster and hopefully avoid the mad rush
through customs
the
disadvantage, though, is that you have to stow away the TV screen doing takeoff and landing and the armrests are a little wider because the
Screens fold up into them.
This aircraft was fitted with Wi-Fi. although it only works on domestic flights. So I had three hours away from my social media accounts.
But overall the flight was perfectly fine.
Having said that, though, Qantas do fly the larger and more comfortable A330s to Auckland
so keep an eye on those if you were heading to the North Island and
finally the amenity kit give away. As always
You've got 30 days to comment below and I'll randomly select a winner and post the kit to them/
Just comment below with (churbro) in brackets
And if you're not sure what that means, search YouTube for many amusing explanations
And if you enjoyed the video be sure to click the thumbs up and check out my channel for many more aviation nerd videos
So chur bro for watching this sweet uz video and keep an eye out for my return flight from Christchurch with Emirates and many more
Incredibly accurate Kiwi accents. Thanks for watching