- Welcome back to another of my video.
This video is about flying EL AL Dreamliner.
No doubt, I think EL AL is one of the world's
most secured airline.
Let me share with you my experience with them.
At the airport, every passenger has to go
through a extra round of interview.
I was asked whether I packed my own bags,
whether I have any unattended items in my bag.
At the gates, you might go through additional round
of security check.
The whole process is pretty similar
to a US-bound international flight.
It was my first time flying EL AL
and it was certainly a very interesting experience.
I think the Dreamliner is EL AL's future.
I was the only non-Jewish passenger
on this flight, I think and I knew very,
very little about their culture ahead of the flight.
So let's check out my experience on EL AL.
- [Sam] Hello, hello. Wow.
- Welcome to our flight from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv.
- What a treat.
EL AL mints!
- Start the light.
- Starting the light.
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(air traffic controller speaks)
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- [Sam] All the food on board is kosher?
- All, everything is kosher.
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- It's very unique.
Like, let's check the inside.
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- Ellie, that was an inspiring story.
I think your story is so powerful.
- Land on runway number 1-2,
flying over Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
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(engine roars)
- 100, 50 ,40.
- Today I am flying something new, EL AL 787 to Tel Aviv.
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- Only we feel home with EL AL.
- [Sam] You only fly with EL AL?
- Only fly EL AL.
- [Sam] Wow.
- It's a prayer for the safety of the flight.
- [Sam] Oh, it's a prayer.
- Yes.
- [Sam] In Hebrew?
- In Hebrew. It's in Jewish.
- So I was quite surprised by myself actually.
I made a spontaneous decision to fly EL AL 787 Dreamliner
from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv.
Then from Tel Aviv,
I'm going to board the last EL AL 747 400 to Rome.
- I just wanted to ask you what actually EL AL means.
- It's, above the altitude.
- Above the altitude?
- Yeah.
- Oh, so it's a Hebrew word?
- Yeah.
- EL AL, above the altitude.
- It's also in the Bible.
- Oh, it's also in the Bible?
- Yeah.
- It took me years to figure out what EL AL means.
I thought it was a long,
you know, abbreviation of something very long.
- Welcome to our flight.
This is a EL AL flight number 076
from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv.
And flight time today will be 10 hours and 43 minutes.
And we'll be flying our new Dreamliner.
This one is with Retro Livery.
We're flying from Hong Kong and we'll be leaving north,
and then we'll take it to a westbound route,
and flying over the north part
of the Himalayan Mountains ridge and then into Kazakhstan,
to Turkey, back south from Turkey,
and over the Cyprus Island, and land at Tel Aviv,
which his located in the centre of Israel.
And we'll be flying around the level of 34,100 feet,
which is 10 kilometres and 400 metres.
And we'll be flying around 0.84 mach.
Well guys enjoy our flight with EL AL,
and I hope to see you soon in one of our flights.
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- Hello, Sam.
- [Sam] Hello
- Well, here you have the wine list for aperitif.
All of them are wine from Israel.
- [Sam] All the wine's from Israel?
- Wow! - Yes, all of them.
- [Sam] Let me try a sparkling wine now.
- Okay, great.
- [Sam] And then later,
I'll try dinner with the proper wine.
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- Cheers.
I'll say it's not bad.
Very good actually.
- This is for you. It's the comfort kit.
- [Sam] Oh, this is the comfort kit, right?
- Yeah.
- [Sam] Wow.
- It's with the brand name of EL AL.
- [Sam] And the gold, gold EL AL, wow.
- EL AL, yeah.
- And it's very unique, like, let's check the inside.
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- The EL AL 787 Business Class has very interesting seats.
Some of the seats face a little bit outwards,
some of the seats face a little bit inwards,
so the way to remember is even number, I'm sitting 16 alpha,
the last row 14, 12, those seats face the window,
and then the other ones, 15, 13, 11, they face outwards.
And then they've got a pair of seats in the middle.
The seats looks a bit small at the beginning,
but I can tell you it's actually very wide,
very good cushioning.
Look at this.
This one, you can lower it,
so now look at how much space you've got.
You've got plenty of space.
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- Sam.
- [Sam] Yeah?
- We have here the menu
- [Sam] Yeah.
- And we (mumbles) this menu only for EL AL.
Only food specially prepared for EL AL.
- [Sam] Uh huh.
- Our (mumbles) come with the kosher permission.
- [Sam] Kosher food?
- Yeah, only the kosher food in our company.
It's different (mumbles)
- [Sam] All the food on board is kosher?
- Everything is kosher (mumbles).
- [Sam] Okay. Thank you very much.
- There you go.
- [Sam] Thank you.
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- Sam, we're starting dinner now in Premium Class.
Actually, Premium Class food is the same
like the Business Class, and it's really high quality.
This is the dish with the salmon.
- [Sam] The Premium Economy passengers get the same food
as Business Class?
- Yes.
- Oh, that's good, that's an upgrade!
- Hi everyone!
My name is Ellie.
I'm a Flight Attendant in Economy Class.
So tonight we have a dinner,
we have salad, mayonnaise salad,
fruit, water, and of course we have for the dinner,
chicken with potato, and a second choice,
we have beef with rice.
And for the top, we have a good wine from Israel.
It's Cabernet Sauvignon.
I was married when I was 19 years old.
I had my children at 21.
I was an Accountant, all the time numbers, numbers, numbers.
I wanted to travel the world, to see people, meet people,
I determined to become attendant flight.
And you know what, I even now have more time in my day
or with my children.
I'm taking them with me also to the flight when I have time.
It's amazing, amazing job and I really love it,
really love it.
- Ellie, that was an inspiring story.
I think your story is so powerful,
that's why I want to record you.
And, it sends out a message directly to a lot of mothers
out there who have kids,
but still, you were able to determine
to enjoy doing something you truly want.
And that is great in life.
- This uniform is different.
She's wearing like, a flight attendant dress, and your one,
this is like a tee shirt!
- It is a tee shirt,
but of course I'm wearing the vest on it.
And we can choose in EL AL.
We have four different uniforms and we can choose
in every flight what's more comfortable for us,
and what we think looks better on us.
- [Sam] But your one is the most comfortable one.
- Yes it is (laughs)
- [Sam] Yes, the tee shirt's the best.
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- [Sam] So because I was filming
in Economy and Premium Economy,
and I only just finished my dinner way behind everybody,
it's already really dark right now.
Dinner was very good, actually.
I love the one meal tray, you have a lot of salad, meat,
and then also main course together.
To my surprise, it's contrary to I see a lot of reports,
my flight EL AL has very good food.
Catering was out of Hong Kong.
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- I had about six hours sleep.
I slept so well.
Right now, it's about almost 2AM in Hong Kong time.
We're about two hours to land in Tel Aviv.
- [Sam] Good Morning
- Ready to eat breakfast?
- [Sam] Yeah, do you have the menu?
- Yeah, the menu have two options.
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- [Sam] I'm almost at the end of my flight.
This was a really long flight, 11 hours.
We had to fly up north, to China, and over then Kazakhstan,
and over Turkey, then come down to Tel Aviv.
I have to tell you I was pleasantly surprised by EL AL,
and how pleasant the flight was.
The seats are very comfortable.
It felt like a United Polaris
at the beginning when you see it,
but actually, it is a lot wider.
So when I was going down to sleep,
I was able to sleep very well for about six hours sleep.
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- Okay, we've started our descent towards Tel Aviv.
We're expecting to land on runway number 1-2,
which is directly from the sea,
and flying over Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
It's a short taxi after landing to the right,
over to the terminal, the position delta eight.
- [Sam] Where's delta eight?
- Over here. I believe it's over here,
you can see it right here.
It's a large terminal
- [Sam] It's like four, okay
- It's the international terminal in Ben Gurion Airport.
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- 100, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10
(pilots speak in foreign language)
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- Welcome to Tel Aviv.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did,
and see you on our next flight.
Thank you. Bye
- Thank you. Bye bye.
- [All] Bye