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- [Sam] It's very interesting.
Who'd take this flight, right?
There is a pray area here.
Can women actually also come to pray here?
Saudia is a no alcohol airline.
Nobody have documented.
I have not seen so far is the hatch operation.
With in three to four weeks
over a hundred thousand people
over 300 flights take place to come to Saudi Arabia.
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It's good to see Jeddah Airport now, finally
came together one roof transit is possible.
I lost all my footages.
I got caught by the airport security.
I was given a tour at a new Saudia Jeddah Al-fursan Lounge.
The 3,500 square metre lounge is also
the largest SkyTeam lounge in the world.
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I'm back at Incheon Airport flying out tonight on Saudia.
Look at this.
Digital screen on the check-in desk.
Oh, here's our Saudi friends.
Look at what they bought.
These are the famous Korean instant noodle.
Show us the noodle.
Oh, you're going to eat this when you go home, right?
- [Friend] Yeah.
- So our flight's a little delayed.
I'm actually the only passenger in this
Korean air lounge with Saudia U SkyTeam, right?
The lounge is pretty decent like, very new furnishings
and decent food and drinks.
Very neat, very clean.
Just like the rest of Korea.
Just got kicked out from the lounge.
Well, not because I've done anything wrong
because the lounge is closing at 9:30 PM.
Our flight's running a little late, so
going to go to the gate early now.
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(man singing in foreign language)
Here I'm waiting our flight.
I met Mr. Talah here.
He was here in Korea in the 1980's.
(man speaking in foreign language)
(Sam speaking in foreign language)
(man speaking in foreign language)
- I was here in 83 until 87.
- [Sam] Oh my God.
- [Man] Very nice.
- [Sam] You were the first station manager?
- [Man] Yup.
- [Sam] What kind of plane Saudia fly in 1983?
- [Man] At that time it was seven four seven aircrafts.
- [Sam] Nonstop?
- [Man] Yeah, nonstop, Yes.
- [Sam] Riyadh-Seoul?
- [Man] Riyadh-Seoul and Jeddah.
- [Sam] What kind of passenger on those flights?
- [Man] At that time, mostly labours.
- [Sam] Oh.
- Now as I see
different kind of ethnicities.
- Yeah, Korea has changed.
- Korea has changed to the better.
Was always good, but now changed to the better.
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- It's really late, 11:00 PM
but exciting to see the plane has arrived
and also the crew has arrived.
That's a good sign we're flying.
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We're finally line up.
It's very interesting.
Who'd take this flight, right?
Who's going to Saudi Arabia from Korea?
But looks like the flight's pretty full
at least in business class.
24 out of 24.
Not a single seats left.
I figure people going to connection
in Saudi Arabia like I am doing to Europe.
- Hi welcome aboard.
- [Sam] Hi.
- Hi sir, how are you?
- [Sam] Very good.
- Thank you.
This way please, sir.
- [Sam] Okay.
- You're welcome.
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- All right, I finally settled down
in this business class with Saudia's Dreamliner
one two one 24 seats.
And I can remove my mask on this flight
is not compulsory.
Actually, I figure out the rules of mask.
It depends on the destination.
So if you're flying to a country
that is not mandatory for mask
you don't have to wear one.
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- Sir, would you like to have some juice?
We have
orange juice, pineapple, mixed berry?
Maybe a lemon with milk?
And we have also antioxidant juice.
- [Sam] I'll have a pineapple juice.
- Pineapple.
- Serve you a coffee, sir?
- [Sam] Oh no, oh yes.
Thank you.
This is the Saudi coffee.
Very strong aroma.
- Thank you, bye.
- Mood selector to flight and crosscheck.
- Flight.
(female announcer speaking in foreign language)
- Hello sir, may I offer you some dates?
- [Sam] Oh, it's okay, thank you.
- For you.
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(plane engine humming)
- Well, we just took off.
Now it's over 1:00 AM.
I don't think I'm going to wait for the dinner.
I'm just really, really tired now.
I'm going to take a little nap and I'll see you later.
Good morning.
I just had eight hours uninterrupted sleep.
Oh, I was so dead.
But the Dreamliner was so quiet, right?
The seats were comfortable
and I'm now feeling refreshed.
So there's actually a chef on Saudia
and the breakfast order is a scramble egg.
He's going to cook my egg fresh, right?
- Today, going to show you how to cook fresh eggs.
- [Sam] Let's do it.
- Let's do it.
So we have, we need some fresh eggs.
And then, now this is the magic of cooking in the AM.
So here we have the preheated oven
with my aluminium pan.
- [Sam] Ah, you used the oven to cook?
- Yeah.
We use oven to cook.
So this is all the equipment.
This is our pan.
So we just use.
- [Sam] Another pan, okay.
Some butter and some olive oil.
- [Sam] Okay.
- And now we put it all here.
- [Sam] Just like on the pan, yeah.
- [Chef] Just bake on the pan.
We're going to move it.
After three minutes, four minutes.
Let's open and check it.
So we will whisk it again.
- [Sam] This is scramble.
- [Chef] 10 minutes, yeah.
- [Sam] 10 minutes.
- [Chef] It's liquidy and we need to scramble it.
- [Sam] Yeah, oh, I see.
- [Chef] Otherwise, it's going to be.
- [Sam] Dried up.
- [Chef] Yeah.
- [Sam] Yeah, it's going to be like a circle.
- [Chef] Yeah.
Sweet.
- Well thanks showing me the scramble eggs.
But I love this dish.
This is the extra sugar, like you know
it's a more colourful and more flavorful.
So, I decided skip that dish went for this one.
Oh, beautiful.
And some of you might saw at the rare
of the seven eight seven
there is a pray area here.
So Muhammad is the person on this this flight.
I have a question, right?
Mostly I saw men come to pray.
Can women actually also come to pray here?
- Absolutely sir.
- So, it seems like we missed the praying time.
Like when did come to pray here?
- Sam, we missed the time for praying
therefore nobody's here.
However, sometimes if we are passing the time for prayer
you'll see it all full.
And sometimes people have to wait, our guest
in order for them to pray.
And as you see
we have eight guests who can fill this area up.
- [Sam] Oh yeah.
- [Attendant] Yeah, and the others they can wait
until the time.
- [Sam] What is this lights here?
- [Attendant] These are the lights.
And also here you have a screen for the
(foreign language) which is makeup.
So the guests they can know where to pray.
So, the direction.
- [Announcer] That your seatbelt is fastened.
Keep your window shades open.
- Back seat.
Seatbelt.
Seatbelt, in your seat
- Fasten your seatbelts.
Trash.
- We are close to landing at Riyadh
and then the flight continues Jeddah
and I switch plane from Jeddah connecting to Paris.
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We just landed Riyadh, King Khalid.
We have one hour stop on the same point.
Then we'll be onward to Jeddah.
I just love this kind of one stop continuation flight.
Right?
- Assalamu.
- Buh-bye.
- [Sam] Bye.
- Bye, assalamu.
- [Sam] So while I'm waiting on board for the next flight
here's a couple things about Saudia I observed
and I want to share with you, right.
First, Saudia is a no alcohol airline.
Can't bring your own alcohol to drink.
Second, I see a most man, Saudi man, are the person.
However I've seen now
there are Saudi national female
joining this cabin crew.
Which is a big thing for this part of Middle East
as a big boost for the female.
The third thing is
what nobody have documented
I have not seen so far
is the hatch operation.
Within three to four weeks, over a hundred thousand people
over 300 flights take place to come to Saudi Arabia.
- They are flying for first time
at the aircraft
and we have to help them with the
to guide them for their seats
for, with their luggage
to put it in the overhead compartment.
Sometime to
let them see the features of the lavatory
how to use
and also the prayer area.
I like actually the hatch flight
because they are coming, you know, for religion purpose.
And they are so happy by the way, to come to Saudi.
- [Sam] I really wish
to get on board one of these flights next time.
- Yes.
- [Sam] I want to document that, that experience.
Oh, I forgot
there was another observation I had on Saudia.
The toilet is always a problem.
You know, a lot of passenger use water in toilet.
So the floor is wet.
To tackle this problem
now, I've seen they have a cabin service assistant.
So she would primarily assisting cabin crew
and also clean that toilet, which is very much needed.
- Sir, may I offer you some dates?
- [Sam] oh, no sale today.
Nobody takes dates today, this morning.
- Since you're not a fan of dates
perhaps I can offer you some dates smoothie to try.
- [Sam] You are dates girl here.
You're trying dates.
All right, yeah, I'll have a date smoothie.
I'll try a date smoothie.
Here's the date smoothie.
I'm a smoothie guy and not a date guy.
But let's try.
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(engine humming)
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(engine humming)
A calm morning climbing out of Riyadh.
The time is five to 6:00 AM
30 degrees outside.
I think it's going to be a non-eventful flight to Jeddah.
It's just about one hour 20 minutes
and looks like there's no passenger joining.
It's an international continuation flight, right?
So now I think 80% people got off at Riyadh.
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- [Man] Was a pleasure.
- [Sam] Thank you.
- Bye.
- [Sam] Bye, see you. - Thank you.
- Thank you, bye.
- [Man] Bye.
- [Sam] Bye.
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At 7:20 AM arrived at Jeddah, finally.
I lost count, how many hours?
(foreign language)
- Masa lama.
Now, going to test out the new transfer at Jeddah Airport.
My next flight, 10:00 AM to Paris.
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It's good to see Jeddah Airport now finally came together
one roof transit is possible.
Lots of morning passenger transit this morning
going to İstanbul, Cairo, London, Paris.
Unfortunately, I lost all my footages.
I got caught by the airport security at the screening
and they made me delete all the transit photos.
I couldn't show you, but it's just pretty simple.
One queue, transit.
The other queue is to arrival.
So you just go through transit
and then you come upstairs into the departure hall.
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I was given a tour at a new Saudia Jeddah Al-fursan Lounge.
It's a separate first class and business class area.
The 3,500 square metre lounge is also the largest
SkyTeam lounge in the world.
It can accommodate up to 10,000 guests throughout the day.
First class, business class passenger on Saudia
Al-fursan elite and SkyTeam elites cardholders
can access the lounge.
The lounge also a set payment for walking passengers.
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Ah, freshly baked.
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So it's an ice cream bar.
It's too early for ice cream, I guess.
So, I border another Saudi seven eight seven
dash nine to Paris.
I think by this time you would already be familiar
with the aeroplane.
Enjoy some of the en-route scenery
Al-Jeddah, over the Red Sea
and landing into Paris Charles de Gaulle.
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