- My 280th time on the Boeing, 747.
Oh wow. Look at this - beautiful.
Look at the shape of this.
- [Flight Attendant] You can sit here.
- [Sam] Ah, in the middle.
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome!
- Wow, what a strange seat.
Right in the middle of the nose. The throne seat.
- [Sam] How difficult is to have a bad
landing on the 747?
- [Pilot] How difficult?
- [Sam] Yeah.
- [Pilot] Whatever landing you can walk away
from was a good landing, I was told. So.
(laughter)
(inaudible)
- [Flight Attendant] And here's your wheat beer.
- So, I got October Fest, but it's in January.
- Boeing is the best aircraft, thank you.
- [Sam] You have such a cool office actually.
- Yay.
(laughter)
(upbeat music)
- Well, I didn't expect to walk on the streets
in Frankfurt airport here.
What happened just now was,
I went to the Senator lounge.
The staff told me, "Hey Sam,
you have three hours to kill,
you should go to first class terminal."
They strongly encouraged me.
Oh, here I made it.
- [Flight Attendant] Yes.
- [Sam] It's been a few years since I was here.
- Ah, okay.
- Yeah. I love it.
(upbeat music)
- This is the bar I guess.
It really amazed me how much
drinks they have here.
How much whiskey they have here.
Who's going to come here and drink at all of these?
Just had a shower. I have to say,
this whole experience in the bathroom here,
just like a five star hotel.
Cheers.
(glass clinks)
- I think I'm right now the only passenger right now
in the first class terminal.
(bright music)
- I don't know about you,
but I love these German cakes.
I love it! The German bakery stuff.
And I love rich breakfast. Champions breakfast.
If I die here, I'll be very happy too.
If I die in the first class terminal.
The lounge attendant bought me a
little, little gift here.
There you go. So cute!
(upbeat music)
- After that champion breakfast,
I'm going to take a nap.
I'm just so glad that I made it
to the first class terminal.
This whole experience is just awesome.
Okay guys. See you later.
(upbeat music)
- Oh, it's beautiful. It's a Panamera.
- [Driver] It's a Panamera, yes.
- [Sam] Nice.
(rich music)
- [Driver] So here we are sir.
- [Sam] Oh, that was a short drive.
- [Driver] Yes. A short drive.
- Well, the lucky god shines on me.
I've been wanting to fly on
the retro Lufthansa 747-8
for a very long time.
- [Attendant] Sir have a good flight.
- [Sam] Thank you, thank you.
- You're welcome.
- [Sam] Hello, good morning, hi.
- How are you? Welcome aboard!
- I'm so lucky today. Retro 747.
Let me touch the blue line here.
- Hello, how are you?
- Hello Mr. Chui.
- [Flight Attendant] Have a nice flight.
- Welcome To our first class again.
Good to see you again.
- [Sam] Thank you.
(jazzy music)
- Beautiful champagne. Off to a really great start.
Um, the captain just came down
and greet every passenger.
Said there will be a very strong headwind,
250 knots that will push our
flying time even longer.
Over 11 hour, 20 minutes today.
- [Flight Attendant] Slipper and the pyjama.
- [Sam] Sorry, what is this? What this one is?
- [Flight Attendant] Cosmetic bag.
- [Sam] Oh, okay.
- [Flight Attendant] This one you
can use for your watches, to collect them.
- [Sam] Oh, really? Thank you.
(chuckles)
- [Male Flight Attendant] This is by our brand Sinn,
which is a watch by typical German watch brand.
- [Sam] It's a German brand.
- [Male Flight Attendant] It's a German, correct.
- [Sam] Uh huh.
- [Male Flight Attendant] Our Van Laack as well.
- [Sam] Oh yeah. I remember this one.
- [Male Flight Attendant] This brand,
we do have different tops and bottoms.
So I guess you can choose between a
different top and a different bottom.
(exciting music)
- Frankfurt is definitely the land of 747.
747 is everywhere.
Came down to business class
for this beautiful view on takeoff.
(plane engine roaring)
(soft classical music)
(upbeat music)
- I would like to invite you
for our amuse-bouche, our kitchen greeting today
which is our cauliflower mash together
with a shrimp on top of it.
- Everyone has their own little locker here
and all my belonging is inside
this locker 1A.
- [Sam] You know what a lovely
coincidence. Marcel has just reminded me.
I actually flew with him in the past as a passenger.
He was sitting behind me on an empty half
flight to Frankfurt. Small world, isn't it?
- [Male Flight Attendant] It is.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- [Male Flight Attendant] Please select some
of our bread. We have our signature garlic bread.
I do have our pretzels or poppy seed
and cheese. Dark bread from Germany
as well as some regular.
- [Sam] I'll have garlic bread and one pretzel.
- [Male Flight Attendant] Absolutely.
(Upbeat music)
- [Sam] Ohh. It's very chilled.
Okay. That's good.
Now having a latter champion breakfast. Caviar,
champagne and vodka.
(jazzy music)
- I do have you have the bedding here for you.
I hope you don't mind a second pillow?
- [Sam] Okay. Thank you Marcel.
- Please enjoy.
- [Sam] All right. See ya later.
Oh, this is a tough life.
All your doing flying for eat, sleep and fly right?
They raise the privacy screen.
So when a privacy screen come up,
there's actually really good.
You got your own cocoon here.
It feels very, very cosy.
I need to take some sleep
cause I slept three hours
but I want to share with you the
first class flying tip, right after this.
(upbeat music)
- I just had that six hour beautiful sleep.
Uninterrupted, in the nose of the 747.
It's just beautiful plush bedding.
And there's no other aeroplane like this.
I'm sitting even in front, off the cockpits upstairs
and I'm sitting at a tip of here.
It's so private.
It's such a great ride.
(upbeat music)
- [Sam] Wow. Beautiful. Look at that.
I just tried this beautiful German
style steak on the menu.
It was this tenderloin beef, right?
But when it presented to me, that was a surprise.
It was beautiful. And now, hear me out,
because I think airline would really hate me to
tell you this, how you can fly Lufthansa
first class, very cheaply.
Of course the secret is using the miles.
If you have any Star Alliance
frequent flyer programme,
you can redeem on Lufthansa. And Lufthansa is one
of a kind airline consistently releasing first class
about 14 days before departure, you will see a lot
of unsold inventory coming out for redemption.
So there's your chance.
So wait until later towards the end
and you'll see a lot of seats available.
And personally, I use a Aegean airlines.
The Greek airlines. 75,000 first class
mileage all the way from Dubai to Frankfurt,
Frankfurt to Los Angeles.
(bright music)
- You saw me smiling all the way to Los Angeles.
Now we're coming to an end of the flights.
I think today, the 747, god really shines on me.
I got to fly this beautiful retro 747-8.
And what a phenomenon first class product.
The food, the service, the sleeping experience.
Love it!
I think Lufthansa first class, to me is among the top five
best first class in the world among Air France,
among ANA. Singapore Airlines and Emirates.
Well, I also have to tell you happy Chinese New Year.
In the next couple days, it'll be the year of tiger
and wish everybody the best
of health and also Kung Hei Fat Choi.
(upbeat music)
(plane engine roaring)
(excited music)
- [Sam] Such a great experience.
Thank you so much
- [Male Flight Attendant] Good to see you again.
And we say all the best and
happy Chinese New Year.
- Yeah, indeed, indeed.
Hope to see you next time again.
- Okay.
- Bye bye. Bye bye.
(upbeat music fades)