PHILIPPINE AIRLINES A321 BUSINESS CLASS 🇲🇾⇢🇵🇭【4K Trip Report Kuala Lumpur to Manila】Tip Top Flight!
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- What's it like to fly on Philippine Airlines in their Regional Business Class aboard an Airbus A321? Check out this 4K Trip Report & Flight Review to see just how incredible Philippine Airlines can be!
🎥 In This Video:
-KLIA Airport Impressions
-Check in & Departure Hall
-Plaza Premium Lounge
-Philippine Airlines Route Map
-A Bit of History
-Boarding & Full Seat Tour
-Spool up, Take off & Landing
-Flight Stats
-Full Meal Service
-Arrival into Manila
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Fare Paid: $568.30 USD (KUL-MNL-SYD)
Class: Busines Class
Inclusions: Seat Selection, 40kg Check in Baggage, 7kg Carry on (not enforced)
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↪ Video Chapters ↩
0:00 Intro
00:26 Boarding Pass Flight Stats
00:57 Driving to Airport
01:16 KLIA Airport Exterior & Entrance
01:36 Check In Hall
02:44 Main Terminal Airside
03:17 Bus to Satellite Terminal
03:53 Philippine Airlines Route Map
04:09 Satellite Terminal
04:45 Plaza Premium Lounge
05:38 Heading to the Gate
06:29 Our Gate & Aircraft
07:01 Boarding Begins & Flight Stats
07:28 Stepping On Board
07:50 Full Business Class Seat Tour
08:23 Pre-Flight Service
08:55 Pushback & Taxi
09:27 Spool up & Take off
10:26 Our Route Today
10:39 In Flight Comforts
10:59 Meal Service Begins, Full Menu
11:16 Full Lunch Service
11:54 Wifi & Entertainment on Board
12:25 Bathroom Amenities
12:38 Descending into Manila
12:58 Final Approach & Landing
13:42 Taxi to Gate
14:08 Preparing for Transit
14:25 The Flip Flop Score
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This is NOT a promotional video. I pay for all of my flights and hotels (and I always tell you how much!) so I can be as honest and impartial as possible. I do not receive any special treatment that wouldn’t otherwise be publicly accessible, in fact, the hotels and airlines have no idea about my visit and that's the way I like it!
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I just want to say that I appreciate the way you present the takeoff position and the maps, I like to know the positions and the directions you’re heading for that immersive experience. These are the little details that I enjoy from your videos.
Appreciate that! Thanks very much 🙏🏻
nothing beats the view of a plush green background with so many trees seen via a glass window when the rain is pouring.. so mesmerizing.. so beautiful..!
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Great video and love the humor. Your two categories are absolutely spot on. Thanks
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Excellent x 3! Thanks, Keven; always providing 'food for thought'.....
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Nice one, as always!
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Good review. Bonus points for some selamat datanging, that choice of music, a 'super-' and the elegant transitions between shots.
Why the cab and not the train, Kevin?
Liked KLIA when I passed through it last autumn - and I was underwhelmed by the PP food then!
Grab is only 25 RM more and quite a bit faster when you consider you don’t need to get to Sentral to start your journey. Thanks for watching 🩴
Interesting review, nice looking plane. Good beginning to your trip.
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I Havent Experience Philippine Airlines Yet,I Like When Air Craft Have Overhead Air Vents.Great Trip Report
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Thanks for letting me relive this trip - took this leg in march for a KUL-HND trip. and yes, the transit was..."amazing". hope with the move to terminal 1, PR will have a better international transit experience.
I hope they have upgraded T1 then - as it was a throwback to the 1960's the last time I was in it!
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Great review. A highlight being the retro MAS 737. ❤
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
It was nice to view and read your comments on Philippine Airlines. I hope you can also review Garuda Indonesia and Lao Airlines.
Garuda and Lao are both coming up this year :) Thanks for watching 🩴
KL airport have an amazing place for planespotting, an opened area showing airplanes around you without need to go lounges or Starbucks, it’s on mian terminal upper level but you walk little bit but it’s worth it for long transit time in the airport
Does it have a name? or it's just a by chance spot in the terminal? Thanks for watching 🩴
I’d like to know this spot as well, please!
Thank you for sharing a nice trip. The food looked nice here on your flight. Yes, those blankets can be different! The lounge looked good and they needed to bring out more food.😂 Hahaha. I am glad you landed safely
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I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, IT'S JUST SOO CALMING. 13:00
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I agree FF, with PIA life is like a box of chocolates. Good luck with MLA lounge. Cheers.
I really wish I thought about "PAL is like a box of chocolates" for the opening line of my Sunday video hahaha. Thanks for watching 🩴
Pre Covid was a big fan of PAL LHR to MNL, as you say excellent crew and service and the A350 business class seats were excellent. Best of all the only direct LHR-MNL route so around 10 hours as opposed to say 18 plus with Emirates. Did come back to a degree post Covid but few flights and an agent told me it was finished off by the closure of Russian air space, which I think killed the route commercially, although they ran it via Dubai for a bit. PAL domestically is much like all other Filipino domestic flights a disaster, great when you get on board but every flight I've been on has changed schedules multiple times and on the day often cancelled and consolidated sometimes with a very long wait. So agree A350 in business much better than Emirates on the same route but the roller coaster really dips domestically. Keep up the hard work love your channel and your independence. Can we expect some Filipino hotels soon? Going to Cebu in September and booked Dusit Thani?. Apologies if you've done them and I've missed it!
No I haven't done any PH hotels yet, but am hoping to find time to do a few next year. In the past, I've always tried to find 4-5 resorts in a place to make the trip 'worth while' to me for the channel- which is difficult in PH since they have a surprising lack of high end resort assortment, but now that there is a heavy focus on flights as well, I'll be more likely to pop over (I live close) to the Philippines to check out a hotel or two. Thanks for watching 🩴
Philippines Airlines awarded World Most improved Airliner in 2017 Skytrax World travel Award. Flip flop traveler delivered.
Lol wait until Sunday… your comment is much more ironic than you know 😂 Thanks for watching 🩴
Thanks
Thank You✈️
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Good video bro. I recently visited the Philippines two months ago but haven’t flown with PAL due to being expensive so I took Cathay Pacific. I hope in the near future PAL operates the A350 instead of the 777
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Is this Airport Review or Flight Review ? Thank you so much Kevin.
This is a trip report. Detailing every detail of, my trip.
Nice video.
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If I can guess on your hint of a future video at the end, I’m feeling like it’s gonna be BKK to MEL on Thai Airways in Business… but we’ll see!
Close, but no :)
Lovely review of a lovely flight! Wonder how Garuda would compare to them nowadays… I flew them years ago and had a similar experience like this one you had on PAL. Lovely crew, comfortable seats and great food. Have you had any recent experience flying Garuda? Thank you for the review 🙏🏼
I had one short domestic economy Garuda leg coming up in this series after the Bali videos and it was just, disorganized, stiflingly hot on board and underwhelming. Thank you very much as always for the support 🙏🏻
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Recently visited the Philippines and decided to try PR in business class from Dubai to Manila. They advertise the staggered 1-2-1 configuration but I got the outdated 2-2-2. Once onboard, I noticed that crew felt a bit meh. The seat was good but no IFE on like a 9 hour flight. They did hand out iPad but no tablet holder to put it on. Lastly, my 1st meal was actually pretty good but the landing meal is something you could probably get in economy, some kind of corned beef sandwich. I much rather have picked Etihad or even Emirates on the 777, with the 2-3-2 configuration, which says a lot.
Yupp, as I’ll also show in my next PR video on Sunday, this is the problem with such an inconsistent airline. Thanks for watching 🩴
I flew KUL MNL MEL in JCL for AUD998. I grabbed it and those 2 flight reviews remain trending on my channel almost a year later. So I assume yours will do the same, PR videos tend to do very well. I was so impressed, except for the transit in MNL which was some of the worst I've ever experienced. I believe they have moved their international ops to T1 so that horrible T2 experience is thankfully no longer.
I wish I was as impressed with my 2nd leg lol. Thanks for watching 🩴
Transiting in MNL is almost always a nightmare... I hope you had a decent experience at least.
At least now they are gradually consolidating international flights to other terminals and making T2 a domestic only terminal so hopefully international transiting would improve. I just wish they have some sort of sky train that connects all terminals.
Great that they'll consolidate in T1... would be even better if T1 wasn't also a crappy terminal lol.
Imagine all the international flight of Philippine Airlines depart from NAIA T1...... Been there very very crowd
Another fantastic video, Kevin, big thank you for sharing. And for me its the more interesting as i am considering to take this flight in November on my next Asia trip. Yet, the plan would be to fly KUL-MNL-HND and the connecting time would be 1h only! Is that very risky according to your experience? Would it be better to put in one night in an airport hotel in MNL? But then the hazzle of going through immigration...Alternatively i am considerung to fly KUl-MNL Boracay and spend a few days there.
IF it's a connection within Terminal 2 (and even better if you don't have check in baggage) then you would likely be okay, cutting it close, but okay. In my experience PR is generally an airline that does hold aircraft to wait on inbound pax on a slightly delayed flight, so if you're booking directly with PR, it might be worth the risk. As for the MNL airport hotel, I'd give a big pass on this one lol. Perhaps, if you went and stayed at one of the nicer hotels in Manila, but probably not worth your time. As for Boracay, that sounds like the best option of the three if time (and stopover rules) permit. Thanks as always for the comment! 🙏
@@tfft Thank you!!!
I do love a good in flight map!
I love a good (fill in the blank with literally anything) map! haha Thanks for watching 🩴
Nice flight 😊
I’m guessing you’re either retired and having a blast flying all over the world or your job/business involves a heck of a lot of traveling and you can integrate your love of traveling into your channel. Either way I enjoy living vicariously through you 😊
Retired ? Kevin is a young man.
Young might be pushing it, but I'm decades away from retirement lol. This channel is my full time gig. Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfft living the dream
Thanks Kevin. Will be doing this trip/route ina couple of weeks and am hopeful that things will be as you had experienced. BTW, Manila airport terminal ... verdict?
PAL has since transfered all of their international operations to Terminal 1 and I haven't been there since. Thanks for watching 🩴
OK thanks for letting me know@@tfft
Apologies l had forgotten to add a comment when l watched. I think those seats are superior and very comfortable even though they are not lie flat. Glad this was a good flight, they have a real issue with inconsistent service. 👍
They certainly do, as we’ll see in Sundays video haha. Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfft : I literally just saw the next video in que after watching your Kimpton Sydney. 😭
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I also thought that these fares may not last long but I guess its to counter the inconvenience of two flights instead of one? I just booked Bali - Melbourne via Manila for just under $400 in business class. Really can't beat the value there, almost reminds me of business fares during Covid.
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So happy you're in the Philippines. I hope that means there's more hotel reviews from the Philippines coming up. I've stayed in many hotels there and I'd love to see your thoughts.
Not on this trip but definitely in the future! Thanks for watching 🩴
He was just transiting, as mentioned, hence "... the Manila transit experience".
Yeah caught that at the end but was hoping maybe transit to Cebu or something like that. Oh well.
Just a correction. PAL "hasn't flown to multiple destinations in Europe" for a long time. Remember under the EU Blacklist PAL was banned from serving Europe for a number of years. When that blacklist was lifted, around 10 years ago, PAL returned to Europe but only to a single destination - LHR. Since the pandemic started in March 2020 PAL leased its LHR slot to BA (not sure about the situation in 2023) and, a few rescue flights excepted, has not yet restarted regular flights to London.
Wasn’t suggesting they were flying to all 9 of their previous European destinations yesterday, but rather as I said, they used to serve Europe quite well- yes most recently only to LHR- and now they don’t serve Europe at all- there are surely a variety of reasons for each route’s demise. Thanks for watching 🩴
PAL's are go to if we're departing from the Philippines (if other airlines have similar fares). Might I suggest staying with them whenever you're coming through Manila.
Other airlines *ehem Cebu Pacific ehem* are currently undergoing some difficulties on the passenger side, namely cancelled flights on the hour of the flight itself.
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This is also used for Manila to Japan like PR407/408 To Kansai Airport where you can connect to UA34/35 Osaka Kansai airport to San Francisco and Manila to Western Australia Perth PR220/221. The Fiesta class seats lack a power plug considering that the 5 star Airline Korean Air have both USB and Power Plugs fitted to their A321 fleets. Even the US 3 have them too. For the longhaul fleet they still lose out to Skyteam Korean Air Oneworld QR JL and CX Star Alliance OZ SQ BR and NH the Skytrax 5 star rated airlines that fly to or from Manila. Which is why you are Filipino passengers fly on out towards Europe USA Middle East. In the case of EWR/JFK SFO LAX to MNL you're better off with QR KE CX BR JL OZ and NH due to them having better service than PR.
I my brother and my mother have PR Mabuhay Miles since September 2002. Meal wise you should be going for the Filipino meal option
Tbh you lost me somewhere in there lol. Have a feeling you didn't actully watch the video as I showed clips illustrating that these seats do in fact have USB and power outlets. Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfft Thanks for telling me about this because for the most part PR planes lack power plugs in Fiesta Class only USB ports, not both power plugs and USB. For their B777-3F6/er A350-941s they only come with USB plugs no power plugs knew this from my brother and Mother since they did a JFK-MNL-KIX round trip
Just visited the Philippines last month. 1 earthquake, 1 active volcano and 1 hospital stay for one of our party. Quite the trip!
At least you can't say the Philippines isn't exciting :) Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfftt’s more fun in the Philippines lol
I love KL.. AMAZING CITY and the Airport is awesome
Hope you can try some of our hotels in Manila too. I think the hotels might need some of your honest comments 😊
Setting the bar pretty low, eh? haha
@@tfft Not exactly. There are some good hotels, and there are some hyped ones 😂😂😂. Shall I list down some hotels?
I like PAL and over the years probably have 500k miles on them. Consistently good food and consistently excellent flight attendants. However on my last flight (Dubai to Manila in biz class), had the oddest thing ever happen to me. Seats are, believe it or not, inflatable in the airbus 330. On a packed flight I had the misfortune of having the inflating mechanism malfunction before we even left. Couldn’t hold air. So….two choices. Get off the flight or fly all the way to Manila on a metal plank. Worst flight, by far, of my life. Couldn’t sleep. Couldn’t get comfortable. Just awful. :).
Oh so you will definitely want to watch my A330 video on Sunday 😂. Malfunction was the word of the day!
PAL used to be really consistent with its good service pre-pandemic.
I was able to fly with their A350 Manila NY, and my goodness I never thought that their economy seat would be comfortable and relatively wide for an economy class configuration. To add, most of their service crew were really attentive. Hence, I was satisfied with their A350 service.
As for the food, it was fine. Nothing exciting.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
I was at KLIA Friday (14 July) and the Plaza Premium Lounge was hoarded up and a sign said that they have moved to the main terminal. I also am suspicious of the train. It seems to operate daily, but only for a few hours. Is this really maintenance...or a way to keep bus drivers employed?
Ah well that explains why this lounge wasn’t part of priority pass haha. Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfft I hope that the dreaded transit experience will be in the next video. Each time I fly from SIN to GUM, I am treated to 7 hours in MNL. PR's terminal is not the best. I have to still go identify my luggage, the lounge is underwhelming, and there are no restaurants.
Yes for some reason I always have 6 hours there no matter where I’m going lol. At least this time I didn’t have to transfer from T2-T1, which has taken me over 2 hours in the past, airside.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport looks absolutely gorgeous !
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I was just checking reviews with PAL BKK-Cebu in business. Go yes, but… no direct return flights! Strange.
There is a return flight, (PR738) but it, like the route from BKK-CEB is not operated daily, so if you play around with your dates, you'll find nonstop in both directions. Thanks for watching 🩴
Depends if you head in or out of Philippines what the experience is
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Great video as always.
I´d rather "enjoy" headakes and adventures at NAIA than having to spend time at my home airport Stockholm Arlanda, with their extremely expensive prices and nothung to do unless you have lounge access.
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BKK to AKL on THAI AIRWAYS in BUSINESS
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As I stumbled on this video and having watched your other one, I find it ironic that some of your worse PAL experiences tend to be with PAL's "better" long-haul products whereas some of your better PAL experiences tend to be with PAL's "worse" products. But yes, the crew makes or breaks the experience, and it is luck of the draw on the quality you'll get.
Also given that you had a great lunch coming into MNL than getting out of MNL, I find it interesting too what it says about the choice of catering companies.
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from BKK to KUL?
on THAI AIRWAYS
in BUSINESS
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From BKK to KUL by Thai Airways in Business
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PR is aisia’s first airline
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Constructive criticism: The added wine prices in red were impossible to read for me due to the dark & busy background.
I'll be at both KLIA & KLIA2 next week "enjoying" a 3:50am departure time, something I haven't had to endure since 1994, if my memory serves me correctly. Phenomenal price though 😉
I'm wondering if it's a brightness setting? On my end, honestly the prices look way too bright lol. Will take note though. Thanks for watching 🩴
From BKK to ??L in Thai Airways Business Class. Couldnt figure out the Arrival airport lol
So far, so good :)
"Impending Manila Transit" or "Hell on Earth + delays, and also more delays" xD
As long as I don’t need to leave T2, then I don’t mind the transit. But those terminal transfers are brutal. Thanks for watching 🩴
@tfft From what I've heard, terminal transfers actually go out of the airport grounds and into surrounding roads to get to other terminals so you get to experience ✨️fast-flowing Manila traffic✨️
Good news, United Airlines will fly nonstop from San Francisco to Manila on October 29, 2023 and October 30, 2023 for Manila-San Francisco.
They (United Airlines) will fly one daily flight nonstop to and from SFO-MNL and MNL-SFO.
Rare that I see “good news” and “United Airlines” in the same sentence 😂
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So yeah, do that flight round trip non-stop business class with United Airlines
@@tfftthat's true. However, should u get the chance to fly with United SFO MNL, please keep us posted. Thanks mate!
I have always heard the airline called PAL (pal), not P-AL. You are more likely to be correct than me, however :)
Actually I've only ever referred to it as PR and heard the same... You might be right with PAL. Thanks for watching 🩴
We call it PAL which stands for Philippine AirLines.
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Would you like to buy an “A”? 😅
@@tfft aye
The international to international transfers should be a little easier since they are now consolidated into one terminal. That being said, my PH domestic to US international transfer was really rough earlier this month (July 2023)
Rough even within the same terminal? That's odd. Thanks for watching 🩴
@@tfft All of PR's international flights have moved over to the older teminal 1, while all domestic flights remain at terminal 2. Its the transfer between the domestic to international flights that can be rough with all the lines and security checks.
When you say “no freebies”, does that mean if it’s your birthday or anniversary, you won’t tell the airline that it’s your special day cus you don’t want special day treatment to celebrate? Non reviewers sometimes tell the airline it’s a special day for them. It’s good you want to be unsponsored and anonymous, but special celebration is not an airline trying to stage for your review.
Even if I wasn't reviewing an airline, I'd never inform them of celebrations like that 😅 but I understand your point, but no- I'm talking more about, upgrades or spa treatments or special dining experiences which (depending on the airline/hotel) would at some times be raining down on me if I gave them a heads up that I was flying/staying with them. What you see in my reviews is specifically what I paid for. If I ever get upgraded, it's becuase I booked a specific rate that included the chance of an upgrade, etc. Thanks for watching 🩴
How was the food in the lounge? From your video it did NOT look appealing.
It's good for what it is. Compared to other comparable mid-range full service Asian carriers (TG, VN, etc), it was probably a bit better. Thanks for watching 🩴
What happened
What are we talking about
DREADED transit area 😅😅😅
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I guess this is an acceptable PAL flight as comparing to your next "unacceptable" A330 PAL flight. PAL must be the worst Asian airline along with Air India and Cambodian Angkor Air
I’d hardly say they’re the worst (or even close to it lol). Thanks for watching 🩴
Philippine Airlines is the worse. Its a shame really.
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