How I got from Asia to Europe for $1200 (in luxury)
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Today I bring you a very fun trip AND some super cheap business class intel. Join me on an epic trip back from Hong Kong to Sweden, on three flights and over two nights, all to catch one of the cheapest business class tickets I've ever seen. With a full 14+ hours of Qatar Airways luxury flight.
What you'll enjoy in this video:
-The full lowdown on where to find the cheapest business class fares departing Asia and how to book them
-Experience what this circuitous routing touching four countries is like (hint: tiring but fun)
-Enjoy the full Qatar Airways 787-8 and 787-9 business class experience with seat tours, service, entertainment and more.
-Fly a bonus Cathay Pacific A330 flight in economy (and listen to the Trent 700 engines on takeoff from HKG)
-Get a full tour of Clark Airport, rarely seen on video! Including its Plaza Premium Lounge
-Go on a little walk in the Orchard gardens at Doha Hamad International
-See Sweden at sunrise
-And more!
Be sure to let me know if you find any cheaper fares departing Asia for Europe!
Flights taken in September 2023.
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Shot on: Sony FX3 & iPhone 14 Pro
Music: Epidemic Sound
Shot, written and edited by Gabriel Leigh, a.k.a. Gabe Leigh.
SECTIONS:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 HKG Airport
01:48 Onboard CX A330
03:10 Takeoff HKG
04:21 Approach & landing Manila
05:33 On the ground in Philippines
07:10 The mystery airport
10:08 First leg Qatar 787-8 business
13:16 That Qatar magic
15:47 Doha transfer (Orchard!)
18:03 Qatar Airways 787-9 (which seat is better?)
20:10 Taxi & takeoff Doha
21:46 Breakfast
22:20 Full details on the crazy low fare!
23:35 Landing Stockholm
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Big fan since your Frequent Flyer documentary. Nice to bump into your channel!
Thanks! Glad to have you here!
Yet another awesome video!
Love the way you combine the interesting content with the perfect amount of commentary and the good sounding tunes in the background. Absolutely top-notch quality content!
I hope you and your buddy had a great time in Asia 👍
Thank you! It's comments like these that keep me motivated to make more!
Who knew your videos could get better? Pete's quality eye candy!😉
Thank you! I do try to only fly with attractive people if possible 😆😆
oh wow i really didnt know you (or better known our Flighradar24 media guy) also got a private channel. very cool content mate
Thanks!
Great video Gabe, love watching your videos. Love hearing your commentary. I actually have my own video coming out tomorrow reviewing Qatar Airways
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing your review.
Thanks, man. Videos out now
You do the best reviews, gabe. Bring your friend along more often.
Thanks for the Clark base tip. We Australians are being pillaged by airlines to fly business internationally so finding clever hacks to fly premium is the way to go ❤ thanks again and look forward to the next flight review.
Thank you! Yeah I've heard it's not easy for y'all in Australia finding the good fares!
Amazing Video as always. Congrats on 3k Subs
Thank you!
Awesome video Gabe! Espero que pronto otros mas en Español 😊
Thanks! Yep will have to do a return to Latin America pretty soon!
Great video!
Thanks!
Fabulous!
Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I suggest you try the middle seats on the dash 9 next time and the window seats on the smaller one. The middle seats on the dash 9 are great if you want to talk and interact!
True, I did consider that! But I knew we'd be wanting to just sleep on the -9 flight, so we did it the other way around. Next time hopefully I can get the -9 on a daytime flight.
I really love the a330 2-4-2
It is a very passenger-friendly layout for sure!
New here. Can I ask where are you from? Great video! I need more of this! Btw are you and Pete together?🤣 you guys look good together!
Welcome! I’m originally from NYC. And nope we’re friends, going back a long time! 😎
Great video, I was always hesitant to try Qatar 787 Business, looks good! Please also tag Pete’s socials 🙂
Thanks! Yeah even though it's inferior to QSuites etc, I still love flying on it.
7:58 Clark Airport kind of reminded me of flying Ontario/LA Airport(ONT) in California instead of into LAX. It’s an hour east of LAX but millions of people still live near ONT and it’s a very calm environment in comparison. China Airlines flies an A350 and a 777 to ONT, I’d love to see you review that flight if your itinerary allows it 👍 thanks for more great videos and tips 🛫
Oh yeah I’ve always been curious what it’s like flying out of ONT! Catch CI out of there would be lots of fun. Thanks for the idea.
Thanks for the tip! I’ve found a business class fare one way for €1500 to Brussels from there ( when I’m going to the Philippines)
Nice! That's still pretty good!
5:00 this approach looks similar to San Diego Airport flying level with tall buildings. Have you ever flown into SAN with a window view out the left side to see downtown before touchdown on 27? I’ve done it a bunch and it feels close to the buildings on a 737, so I’m hoping to get a widebody perspective soon.
Yeah true, I think in SAN you’re even closer. Love that airport location.
This man needs to buy his own plane, i think the G650 would fit you 🤣🤣
G650 would work just fine yep! Though I think top choice would be a Falcon 😁
"Qatar Magic" hahahaha
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Damn, you are hitting home! I plan to go to Philippines this Autumn and Qatar or Emirates are the most direct.
But I did CRK to ARN, bang! now it is 1000 (rt) 1500 (o/w) USD for my dates! As a Filipino friend says: "Shet"
The Luzon airport situation is weird. I was in NAIA Manila many years ago and recall it was a mess capacity wise in many dimensions, nowadays I heard it's just Gridlocked but my destination is Cebu further south anyways. The Have Clark and are building the New Manila Airport north of the City,
I guess however the 1000USD Economy return will be for me... I know that is their base price and hard to find any other deal either with Google Flights or so; it's funny to see Qatar's booking vary prices and giving very weird 2 stop combinations despite the time remaining. I think the algorithm is picking me lurking 🤔 Perhaps the key is to book close to the flight date in low season?
Interesting! I think booking for the autumn at this time of year can be tricky. Airlines will look to pick off some people who are eager to book kinda early and so might accept higher fares - in many cases I've seen fares actually drop and/or better routings open up closer to the date, after the summer peak is over and airlines realize they won't fill the planes at those fares.
@@airedition It seems so, played a bit with the app and I see pricing variations that I didn't expect from such a carrier! ITA Matrix by Google gives all base prices and combinations, so I saw it's the app/site just playing with me. "Don't forget your booking" On reopening the session, it shot up 80% 🤣Caveat emptor
The ME3's actually have a great model. I wouldn't bother with a 16h direct business flight but for Economy that stretching legs in Qatar must be great 😄 It's interesting that you didn't get to board with a jetbridge
Jetbridge is a rare thing at DOH. I’d say 90% of my flights there have been bus gate!
@@airedition Interesting, researching DOH it does seem that there aren't enough Gates for the incoming/outgoing flights that they have using that hub model they have. All of those within a few hours in about the same time!
That, and I was surprised to learn that during many layovers there is as well transfer security. Thought that airside could be for most journeys on the same airline+ticket. But seemingly, the same thing makes it busy at DOH that some flights do skip going through the transfer area. Signals I haven't gotten out of Schengen and EU in a long time...