why am I not in a hotel why am I not in my uniform why am I in Barcelona I'll
explain it all coming up
hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is Kelsey I'm a 747
pilot my channel 74 Gear is all about aviation earlier this month I let the 74
crew on Instagram pick where I go in the world as you know if you watched that
video I talked about my pilot schedule that all my days working are clumped up
which means all my days off are also clumped up so I asked them if they
wanted to see where I go and what I do on some of my days off I let him pick
the continent that I went to and then I let him pick the city that I went to the
original choice was from Mykonos Greece which is an awesome place I really
wanted to go there but since right now it's October it's off-peak season there
is not a lot of flights going out there it was gonna take me 3 or 4 flights to
get out there and the same to get back so it was gonna be a very short stay so
since I only found out about 24 hours before that there was no chance I was
gonna realistically make it to Mykonos I asked everybody if they wanted me to go
to my number two choice which is gonna be Barcelona so I could have a longer
stay here about 70% of the people voted yes so I had about 24 hours to arrange
how I was gonna get to Barcelona where I was gonna stay so this is a story of how
I got to Barcelona without even paying for a ticket let's
get into it
hey 74 crew I'm here in Anchorage Alaska I just finished my trip
originally I was supposed to finish in Seattle but things change so I got up
here now the airline has a hotel for me tonight it's about 8:30 at night here
locally they have a hotel for me but I wanted to get this trip going as soon as
possible because the flights have been a little booked up going to Europe I'm
literally going halfway around the world to get to Europe to do this video here's
a basic route plan I'm gonna be taking to get out there how long is it going to
take me to get out there I guess we're gonna find out first off it's gonna be
JFK let's go
hey crew here in the bunk we're starting our decent into JFK right now
actually luckily I got the bump so I got to get some sleep I got to eat some food
I got some movie time and so it looks like we're probably about 30-45 minutes
that will be on the ground I'll talk to you there
I still think we were fine actors hey crew so I'm out here in JFK my flight
doesn't leave for another 6 or 7 hours i've already been traveling for an over
long lap says let's see what i can do for the next 6 or 7 hours
the standbys now so how it works is when you're flying as a standby passenger you
get a fly for free if there's a seat available but it also means you can't
get bumped for anybody so there's a good chance I don't make this flight they're
actually starting to call the people right now I'm kind of towards the bottom
of the list since I don't fly for American so I'm really hoping that and
make this flight because the next flight out to Barcelona isn't until tomorrow so
if I don't make this hop to go get a hotel or get something to stay and then
try again tomorrow but hey I'm getting to fly for free so it's part of the
adventure hey crew so I got really lucky I got
upgraded in the business class because all the seats in coach happened to be
full so I'm up here in business class I'm riding this 777 out to
Barcelona from New York about a 7 -hour flight I'll give you some
updates on the way over there so I'm taking this 777 200 see that wing all
the way out there that's what I'm flying out to Barcelona how'd I know it was a 200
I cheated
we just taken off and I know a lot of you on that last video that I did the JAL
video you guys enjoyed seeing the stuff that they had in those kids and welcome
to kids that you get somebody was making fun because I called it the starter kit
I don't know I'm just not that fancy we already knew that I just got up the love
and kid whatever you want to call it here on American I haven't opened it up
yet I just opened it up we're gonna see got to see what's in here
the I think so you go to sleep wish I don't really use those socks because it
seems like every airline wants to give you socks
lip balm
the hand lotion mom's stuff to keep your breath fresh
Masum toothpaste but I'll be keeping because I just head for the road good
brush because did you know what that's for
and then impending a lot of pens with meat we use we do a lot of writing but
these are great especially if you're clearing through customs in de to fill
out the forms there's a lot of completely internationally that never
bring pens to its really good idea if you're flying international to bring a
pencil you can fill stuff out they clearing customs forms or things like
that even though a lot of it's becoming digital it's a really good idea
we've just got these headsets these things are
Bang & I'm gonna say that last word he said all
right we're gonna hand out these headsets and we're gonna collect them
what hours before landing these are really nice headsets or like
these kids again I would say they're as good as that the post headsets that I
use that I applied with my daily basis that's about two typos that just blares
them but these are probably one of the best headsets that I've had on that
commercial flight really cool if you've been watching my channel for a while you
know that I really love the wing to the 777 it's actually one of the
easiest ways to spot this aircraft is the wings but no winglet and then three
tires on the mains that's the easiest way to spot a triple 7 throughout of the
airport I honestly wasn't gonna do another video in the bathroom but this
one on the 777 is so big I couldn't pass it up about time to lay in
damn hey crew who start our initial descent into Barcelona right now I've
been up for about 24 hours
I think so you go to sleep wish they don't really use those I got some sleep
on the flight over to JFK and luckily I got some silly contest it's part of part
of flying a lot you got to be able to sleep on a plane for sure once I get
into Barcelona I think I still got a weight but I got to get a bus over to
the place to check in at my ear being beaten probably they're gonna be ready
and I think it's like 6:30 in the morning here in Barcelona I don't think
I can check in a little bit so I might just still walk around the airport there
hey crew it's about 8:00 in the morning I've been traveling for over 24 hours
I've been hanging out here for about an hour and a half I'm hoping the airbnb
is gonna be available soon I'm just waiting for a text from them to let me
know I'm gonna jump in the bus to get down there because it's right near one
of the Centers of the town so I'm just hanging out here and waiting until that
happens so we left New York City with our windows down we couldn't see the
trees and it was too damn loud I will stand on your board
to the clouds you know we left New York City
so now here in the hotel I've been traveling for about 34 hours I think
stop crying like a little girl I wasn't crying like a little girl I luckily I
got some sleep on that 747 freighter coming over and then I also got some
sleep on that American flight coming over so I'm not horribly tired but after
30-something hours you definitely want to take a shower and have a nap
hopefully you were following me on Instagram before this video came out
because I'm gonna be putting up all kinds of stories of the things that I'm
doing here around the city I actually have some friends here that I'm about to
go surprise probably tomorrow so I'm really excited about this one of the
coolest things about my schedules the pilot is my ability to travel all around
the world on my days off without taking any vacation for it if you're ever
curious about what the schedule of a pilot's like I'll put a link to it right
here I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up