Regarding Jakarta's notorious traffic, actually you can use the airport express train to get to the airport from city center and vice versa. Been following your series since the latest Bali series, and it's all great! Keep it up 👍
I remembered the first long haul business class i flew was Etihad, a330 from hkg to auh, and 787 from auh to zrh. Boy, the business class product was indeed a huge difference. But I was just so happy that I could finally afford to fly business class!
After a couple of times, I try to avoid AUH if for nothing else, it’s their airport. Right on with your assumption that the new one will never open. Certainly feels this way.
I won't make it there this year, but have West Bengal and some other northern States on my list for 2024. This year I do have a lot of content coming from India though (UP, MH, KA, TN & RJ). Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Is the qsuite really better if there's a 50% chance that you won't in fact get a qsuite? While the ceiling may be higher on qatar business, the floor is much much higher on etihad. Less chances of getting it wrong. Emirates... im not so sure about the 2-3-2
The vast majority of the moments of being Qatar'd happened during QR's dispute with Airbus when many aircraft were grounded. More than 75% of QR's widebody fleet now has QSuites and there are only 12 planes in total with the old style 2-2-2 business class.
@@tfft yes, to be fair, qatar's consistency has gotten considerably better as of late. They still can't match etihad tho - 100% of all widebody seats have privacy partitions and direct aisle access. So long as those a330s stay, at least some of the passengers will still get a much much worse experience
Making the videos longer with a still photo hurts video performance as it relates to the algorithm, so my working theory is, anyone who would like a deeper look can pause or screenshot the score screens 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
LOL, one year ago I was exactly there doing that. Our flight was late at night, the lounge was empty but food was really bad. Still, we could take a shower and change our clothes for the flight after a long day traveling to Jakarta. Cabin was also half empty and we really enjoyed the flight, with nice dinner, although breakfast was horrible. Overall, a great flight, and we loved the discreet service. Still preferring Emirates A380 with the lounge, anyhow, especially when traveling with children.
If you clip the corners together, the amenity kit forms a small leather “dish” for placing keys, rings, cuff links watches, earrings into. Actually quite functional.
I notice lounges in Jakarta are generally lackluster if not abysmal. Probabaly with the exception of Garuda lounge. And I suspect it's actually by design from the airport authority.
Lol...competing against Emirates! No way will they succeed by just throwing money everywhere, and am happy they learnt their lesson. Emirates is a forward looking innovative company and grew step by step over the years. Just jumping up one day and throwing money to buy planes and routes won't get you anywhere.
Haha not a better way to describe Etihad nowadays then "mild pleasure", I flew this same aircraft on IAD-AUH in July, pretty long flight which ended up being lackluster, ran out of the arabic mezze before they got to me so had to settle with a cold shrimp appetizer; also the bed is really firm, so even more disappointing on such a long flight was a lack of bedding and/or mattress pad. Service was pretty robotic and to me great service can cover for the rest of the product deficiencies, but in this case it didn't- was left with a "meh" unfortunately.
Trying to decide over 787-9 ethihad business vs. 787-9 emirates business from Washington DC, the ethihad is a little cheaper, is there a significant difference between the two? Which one would you recommend?
Loved how detailed this review is, you just got a new subscriber. If possible could you try reviewing gulf air? It's often looked down upon, I personally think it's a very underrated airline. Cheers
I actually flew them twice in the past week. The longer of the two was possibly the worst flight I’ve ever had … the shorter one was decent but nothing to write home about. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Etihad could have well utilised those elsewhere invested and lost fortunes to start a budget airline which may be named Abu Air Or Arab Air. By the by the prawns biriyani is the most sought after in Asia.
Or perhaps they could have just focused on themselves and created a fantastic airline lol. And Asia is a pretty big place. I know plenty of countries where they’ve never heard of Shrimp Biryani 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This mediocre flight was better than I expected since I'd been anticipating something worse. Bet those Turkish passengers were envious. (From personal experience, I can say with confidence that I've never met a pomelo I didn't like. 😀)
Ex Jakartan and now living full time in Bali here. Thanks for these insightful reviews. I particularly enjoy seeing the retail price of the alcoholic beverages so I know what to shoot for to get my $'s worth on these flights. Looking forward to seeing more content!
It’s a review, not an advertisement- and it was overall a good flight with a good score. If something isn’t great, I’m not one to pretend that it is. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I think they serve their niche well. For the price I paid, I’d happily fly them again. But if they were head to head against Qatar and the price was comparable, Qatar is the easy choice. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Yes, I’ve been told by sources that claim things that there is a 38% chance it will be open prior to the next Total Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. Get it on your calendar now!
Thank you again for a great review! Having just flown Qatar in business class, this video didn’t convince me to try them in the near future. Some of your remarks cracked me up, such a pleasure to watch! Hope you surpass the 25.000 subscribers mark before the end of the year, your channel absolutely deserves it! 🙏🏼
Yeah, there’s no comparison between Etihad and Qatar- but for me it always comes down to the price, so Etihad certainly has their niche (when the price is right). But their Abu Dhabi transit experience leaves a LOT to be desired as you’ll see in the next video. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I always thought the Gulf state airways were a disaster waiting to happen (too much capacity, lack of originating pax in the Gulf) Of course, when you have a government willing to throw money at you, it makes it fun. There early strategy was also tried by Swissair, and we saw what happened there.
To my knowledge the wine lists are dependent on region, not specific location. So at the time of my flight, Manila likely had the same wine list. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Regarding Jakarta's notorious traffic, actually you can use the airport express train to get to the airport from city center and vice versa. Been following your series since the latest Bali series, and it's all great! Keep it up 👍
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I remembered the first long haul business class i flew was Etihad, a330 from hkg to auh, and 787 from auh to zrh. Boy, the business class product was indeed a huge difference. But I was just so happy that I could finally afford to fly business class!
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"cut in line by someone half my age and probably twice as important"
🤣🤣🤣
😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
You have a great eye for detail, which makes your videos engaging, amusing and perhaps just a little brutal. Keep it up!
“A Little Brutal” was my nickname at uni 🤣 (jk). Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
After a couple of times, I try to avoid AUH if for nothing else, it’s their airport. Right on with your assumption that the new one will never open. Certainly feels this way.
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Love Etihad it's my second favourite airlines behind Emirates .. and also love Abu Dhabi .. always waiting for your reviews
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We recently traveled Etihad 787-10 business class from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai. It was great. Their premier lounge was nice too.
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It's true you have to pay for Skytrax rating.
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Excellent seat lay out much better than that of Qatar "Airline of the year"
Well… the majority of QR wide bodies have a better seat/layout (Super diamond or Qsuite) than Etihad’s… Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Skytrax charge per ⭐️ but lm reliably informed that the package, whilst more expensive, is a better deal 😜
I’ve heard that used to be called the Lufthy Package ☺️
this was a lovely flight review.I think that Etihad is number three behind Qatar and Emirates.
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قبل عدة سنوات كانت طيران الاتحاد تتفوق على طيران الامارات لمدة 15 سنة
كانت الاتحاد الافضل والافخم في الشرق الاوسط
الى يومنا هذا
Hi Kevin if you are visiting Calcutta ( West Bengal , india) let me know. I can suggest you certain good places
I won't make it there this year, but have West Bengal and some other northern States on my list for 2024. This year I do have a lot of content coming from India though (UP, MH, KA, TN & RJ). Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Etihad Airways 🇦🇪
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Is the qsuite really better if there's a 50% chance that you won't in fact get a qsuite? While the ceiling may be higher on qatar business, the floor is much much higher on etihad. Less chances of getting it wrong. Emirates... im not so sure about the 2-3-2
The vast majority of the moments of being Qatar'd happened during QR's dispute with Airbus when many aircraft were grounded. More than 75% of QR's widebody fleet now has QSuites and there are only 12 planes in total with the old style 2-2-2 business class.
@@tfft yes, to be fair, qatar's consistency has gotten considerably better as of late. They still can't match etihad tho - 100% of all widebody seats have privacy partitions and direct aisle access. So long as those a330s stay, at least some of the passengers will still get a much much worse experience
Well known skytrax is utter nonsense and has zero credibility.
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So sad to see the line jumping VIP have to wheel his own suitcase at the end of the video rather than relying on ground crew as at boarding. 😢
A Prince in Indonesia, a mere mortal in the land of Princes 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Would be great if score was left a tiny bit longer to absorb it all🙂
Making the videos longer with a still photo hurts video performance as it relates to the algorithm, so my working theory is, anyone who would like a deeper look can pause or screenshot the score screens 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Your sarcasm is legendary😂😂😂
I try my best 😊 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Arab guy in front during boarding has a person rolling his carry-on bag...rolling my eyes!
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LOL, one year ago I was exactly there doing that. Our flight was late at night, the lounge was empty but food was really bad. Still, we could take a shower and change our clothes for the flight after a long day traveling to Jakarta. Cabin was also half empty and we really enjoyed the flight, with nice dinner, although breakfast was horrible. Overall, a great flight, and we loved the discreet service. Still preferring Emirates A380 with the lounge, anyhow, especially when traveling with children.
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Great video Etihad looks like it's on the come up, happy to see. Aloha from Hawaii
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There is no way on earth that was olive oil!!
Those special pale olives 😅
If you clip the corners together, the amenity kit forms a small leather “dish” for placing keys, rings, cuff links watches, earrings into. Actually quite functional.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Haven’t even watched but am confident this is great. Thanks keep up the work kevin
Thank you but make sure you watch it also hahaha 😊
I notice lounges in Jakarta are generally lackluster if not abysmal. Probabaly with the exception of Garuda lounge. And I suspect it's actually by design from the airport authority.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Lol...competing against Emirates! No way will they succeed by just throwing money everywhere, and am happy they learnt their lesson. Emirates is a forward looking innovative company and grew step by step over the years. Just jumping up one day and throwing money to buy planes and routes won't get you anywhere.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I usually dont like any airline reviews specially the sponsored ones, but your vid is unique. thats a + and a like for that :)
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Haha not a better way to describe Etihad nowadays then "mild pleasure", I flew this same aircraft on IAD-AUH in July, pretty long flight which ended up being lackluster, ran out of the arabic mezze before they got to me so had to settle with a cold shrimp appetizer; also the bed is really firm, so even more disappointing on such a long flight was a lack of bedding and/or mattress pad. Service was pretty robotic and to me great service can cover for the rest of the product deficiencies, but in this case it didn't- was left with a "meh" unfortunately.
Yea- I’d say it’s either a mild pleasure or an elevated meh 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Trying to decide over 787-9 ethihad business vs. 787-9 emirates business from Washington DC, the ethihad is a little cheaper, is there a significant difference between the two? Which one would you recommend?
Hard to say since Emirates doesn't fly the 787-9 :)
Loved how detailed this review is, you just got a new subscriber. If possible could you try reviewing gulf air? It's often looked down upon, I personally think it's a very underrated airline. Cheers
I actually flew them twice in the past week. The longer of the two was possibly the worst flight I’ve ever had … the shorter one was decent but nothing to write home about. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft thank you for the reply, that's unfortunate I've had some of the best flights with them 😢
Super 👍👋👍🙏
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Etihad could have well utilised those elsewhere invested and lost fortunes to start a budget airline which may be named Abu Air
Or Arab Air.
By the by the prawns biriyani is the most sought after in Asia.
Or perhaps they could have just focused on themselves and created a fantastic airline lol.
And Asia is a pretty big place. I know plenty of countries where they’ve never heard of Shrimp Biryani 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I find your reviews most informative. Thank you.
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Agreed that the lounge is quite small and hot, in fact the whole T3 is hot due to its horrible AC system. But for me, the food was decent
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This mediocre flight was better than I expected since I'd been anticipating something worse. Bet those Turkish passengers were envious. (From personal experience, I can say with confidence that I've never met a pomelo I didn't like. 😀)
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Ex Jakartan and now living full time in Bali here. Thanks for these insightful reviews. I particularly enjoy seeing the retail price of the alcoholic beverages so I know what to shoot for to get my $'s worth on these flights. Looking forward to seeing more content!
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I'll be doing this exact flight in a few days but in seat 10A
Enjoy your trip 🗺️
Thank you for the review but tbh you complain too much.
It’s a review, not an advertisement- and it was overall a good flight with a good score. If something isn’t great, I’m not one to pretend that it is. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hopefully they can get back to the 2012 “ Reimagined “ concept which arguably made them “ the best in the sky”
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Thank You for sharing this lovely well edited informative video.
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Dude in the hot pink shirt with popped collar bumped his head, hahah :)
Fluorescent clothing choices have their consequences 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Great content ❤️❤️. Regards from SA🇿🇦🇿🇦
I’ll be there soon! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
wow. that doesn’t look splurge worthy at all. good to know
I think they serve their niche well. For the price I paid, I’d happily fly them again. But if they were head to head against Qatar and the price was comparable, Qatar is the easy choice. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Do you have any insider information as to when the midfield terminal in AUH will open? 😅
Yes, I’ve been told by sources that claim things that there is a 38% chance it will be open prior to the next Total Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. Get it on your calendar now!
@@tfft Sweet! I'll mark it down on my calendar
I like your humor. Keep it up 👌
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T3 has terrible AC.
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Thank for video
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Great video !
Thanks for watching & Happy New Year 🎉
14:18 NO FLIP FLOPS EXPOSED🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
You’re late to the party lol. When I fly with only carry on luggage the only place my shoes will fit is on my feet :) Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft late to the party was my nickname in high school ;>
You sound snobby to me,...but I'm an economy flyer and very used to being treated like a sardine aft in the aircraft.
I hope Gary is okay. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Jackfruit 🤢
Never met someone who doesn’t like jackfruit haha.
complain much!?!
Is that, a complaint?
@@tfft legend
Thank you again for a great review! Having just flown Qatar in business class, this video didn’t convince me to try them in the near future. Some of your remarks cracked me up, such a pleasure to watch! Hope you surpass the 25.000 subscribers mark before the end of the year, your channel absolutely deserves it! 🙏🏼
Yeah, there’s no comparison between Etihad and Qatar- but for me it always comes down to the price, so Etihad certainly has their niche (when the price is right). But their Abu Dhabi transit experience leaves a LOT to be desired as you’ll see in the next video. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I always thought the Gulf state airways were a disaster waiting to happen (too much capacity, lack of originating pax in the Gulf) Of course, when you have a government willing to throw money at you, it makes it fun. There early strategy was also tried by Swissair, and we saw what happened there.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Apart from the champagne the wines are not good. They do serve far better ones from Manila to Abu Dhabi
To my knowledge the wine lists are dependent on region, not specific location. So at the time of my flight, Manila likely had the same wine list. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
You just gotten a new subs. Love your sarcasm. Keep it up
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