Singapore Airlines Ultra Long Haul Flight + Singapore Airshow 2024

17 hours, non-stop flight to Singapore today. Hi, how are you? Good morning, how are you? Very well, thank you. This way please. Hi, welcome to Singapore Airlines. Today flight time is 16 hours and 10 minutes. We're sending two service Airbus Singapore. Going shorter than expected. Yes, thank you. It's a bit more shorter than the scheduled flight times. Boo, I was fully prepared for 17 and a half hour. That's the scheduled flight time. I guess the wind isn't as strong as predicted. 16 hours and 10 minutes, that will do. Champagne, orange juice, Sabellinis, please. Oh, what is this one? This is Sabellinis. Do you want to try it? Our mocktail? Yeah, please. Thank you. Enjoy. Okay, good luck. Thank you. We're just lining up on the longest runway, one zero left. Chicken Caesar salad. This is one of the best Asian breakfast dish. Very simple, very cheap, but they always hit the spot when you're flying. So I guess this is a first world problem. This seat here is really wide, but however, it doesn't go fully flat. In order to go fully flat, you have to flip the seats down. So right now I'm just sitting, but I'm tired. I have to get out of my seat to flip the bed to get into a full flat position. Okay, here's my second first world problem. When the bed flipped, it goes flat, but my leg couldn't go straight. You have to go to diagonal like this in order to get more room. Where are you flying to today? I'm flying to Kolkata via Singapore. Where are you guys flying to? So we are flying to Coimbatore. It's in the southern part of India. Where are you going? I'm going to Singapore for a cruise. You're going to Singapore for a cruise? Yeah, Singapore cruise. Wow, so nice. I know. I go to air show, air show for two days. Yes. And you go how long the cruise? September 15th cruise. Wow. I missed the show. I missed the economy service. I was wanting to come down, but Charlie's in the aisle and it's a full flight. Finally, after four hours sleep, my energy came back. I came down to see what kind of food they serve in economy and premium economy. So I just took this out from one of our fridge. We usually heat it up. The main course is the pork with roasted potatoes. The tray for economy also comes with appetiser and dessert. This is the snack basket. We usually have more, but because it's a day flight, so everyone's just grabbing everything as they go. All the bagel chips are gone. Popcorns are gone. Let me just refill the snack basket. Yeah, it's running low on supply earlier. This is everybody's favourite chocolate. Lots of snacks, 16 hour flight. And you think all of these will be gone by the end of the flight? I'm very sure. Yeah. In less than an hour, it should be all gone. You're mixing the Singapore sling. So this is the secret source. Original Singapore sling drink. We have this lady in green. She's the supervisor. So I want to know is on a 16 hour long flight, how many hours do the crew get rest? So it's a requirement for us to have at least four hours rest for a flight like this. So we split the rest into two periods. Just now about seven crew went up for rest. I just came back from my rest. And then the second part, about six crew will be taking their rest. And they will have four hours as well. Thank you very much for waiting. So here we have the very needed prawn salad, balsamic dressing. Would you like a glass of wine to go along with the salad? Garlic bread. Two glasses. Okay. It's 10 p.m. San Francisco. We still have at least five hours to go. It's a really long flight. I'm feeling really tired actually. Just had dinner. It was one of the best barbecue pork char siu noodle I ever had on an aeroplane. It's actually just as good as those ones from Hong Kong. I can remember. I am back. I'm finally alive after another five hour slip. And the crew literally woke me up. Just 15 minutes to land now. It's looking pretty good, the weather in Singapore. In closing, I would like to thank the crew. They've been working hard on this ultra long flights. And each crew only get four hours of rest. And the other 12 hours they're working around and it's a full load today. Happy landings. I'm looking forward to come to the Singapore Airshow. If you have experienced more than three hours in flight delay, flight cancellation, or denied boarding, you could get up to 600 euros in compensation by EU regulation EC261 with Skycop for flight delay more than three hours. And if this was the airline's fault, such as operational issues or technical issues, you could get compensated. Depends on your flight distance. The same compensation also apply if your flight is cancelled within 14 days of departure dates. Or if you got bummed off from an oversold flight, you can go to Skycop to claim for compensation in a simple three-step process. The good news is there is a promotion right now. If you know anyone whose travel is disrupted, encourage them to submit a claim on Skycop. Once approved, both yourself and your friend will receive a 50 euros MasterCard gift card. This video is sponsored by Skycop. So walking on board one of the star of the show, which is the Comax C919. I believe the first time they brought it outside of China to show the world. So it's not new for me because I flew it in the first month of operation in June, 2023. Extremely quiet, extremely similar to the Western counterpart. The little things people don't know is the middle seat is also I think one inch wider. 39 and 40 exit row of the C919, massive legroom here. So when I flew the C919 last year, the cockpit was off limits. This time I was lucky to tour the cockpit of the C919 at the air show. It looks like a combination of some of the world's best cockpits. You have four large screen display, keyboard, mouse and side sticks. The C919 has started its European certification, but so far all the orders came within China. So China's Comax brought five aeroplane this time to the Singapore air show. One of their C919 is seen here performing the flying display. And other new aeroplane on display is Comax ARJ21. Indonesia's Transnusa is the first foreign operator. Here I'm sitting inside the ARJ21 cockpit of Transnusa Airline from Indonesia. Hello, Captain. My name is Captain Nur Muhammad. I'm from Transnusa. I fly for ARG Comax aircraft. The aircraft itself is already 1,500 hours in Indonesia. Bring more than 10,000 people already flew. We are flew to Jakarta, to Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, then Pasar. So how many in the fleet you have? In the fleet, two. You are the first international operator after China. What is it like to fly an ARJ21 made in China, aeroplane like this? It's mostly like a airbag because the engine we fly with a little bit muscle because we using the wire. Now we are using the electrical, so we are just- Is this fly-by-wire? Yeah, fly-by-wire. But you have the yoke. Yes, but the yoke, but it's only just small input is already controlled aircraft. Sometime, if you, the aircraft go to the ground, just release, they come back in normal. It's very nice aerodynamic, I think. Really? Yes. So you enjoy flying? Yeah, I enjoy. Even we, like you, Fred, that we going to heavy rain, go to cloud. I already flew many time through the train. It's no problem with this aircraft. Here in the front, it's very quiet. Very, very quiet because engine at the back. So we have a few classes. This colour, and then- Oh, the colours mean different class. Correct. Different price. Yes, when you sit, you can feel the coziness of this aircraft. How's the passenger reaction? Do they know they're flying a main China aeroplane or they don't know, they don't care? They don't know, they don't know. It's a transportation. It's just a transportation. Right, for them, it's just to get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how's, as an operator, how satisfied you are with the ARJ21? We are very satisfied. We have very, very, very good aircraft, you know, because Indonesia have island to island. We connect each island to island, right? If you use a bigger aircraft, maybe we cannot fill up so many passenger, but ARJ21 is just nice. So this one has the exit row. Yeah, exit row. It's funny, you only two rows here and you've got a lavatory. Emergency equipment. It's a T-tail aeroplane. So you've got two engine and a rear. So the front obviously a lot quieter than the rear, right? To my surprise, there's also a freighter version of the ARJ21 on display. I didn't even know such type exists. So the freighter version of ARJ21 behind me is something new. I've never seen this before. It reminded me of the DC-9, capable of carrying 10 tonnes of cargo. Welcome to the A400M. This is Airbus's military transport aircraft. This one's operated by the German Air Force and can carry up to 37 tonnes of payload, vehicles, passengers, helicopters, anything that you can fit inside. What's actually interesting is this pointy front. What's this needle in the front? This is the air to air refuelling probe. So the A400M can be refuelled in flight. Typically it would fly for nine hours without being refuelled, but you can refuel it. And really the limit is the human being inside the aircraft. So massive turboprops. And what engine these are? Yeah, these are Europrop International turboprop engines. And these are really what give the A400M its amazing performance. Would you look at all the gears, right? Heavy gears. So they can land on gravels, I guess. Yes, the A400M is designed to land on very soft surfaces, gravel, sand, grass. Wow, this is very cool. Yes, welcome to the flight deck. So this has to be one of the biggest carpet I've ever been. And it's bigger than all the commercial aeroplanes, bigger than the 380 and massive carpets in the A400M. It's fantastic, yes. Typically you would have the two pilots, but you can see you have this extra seat here for a third crew member, maybe a mission manager or something like that. And they can access all of the flight information through this console here. And then behind the camera there, there's a bunk for sleeping. And in the corner, there's a galley with an oven and very important, a coffee machine. Right, so we can have about five or six people eating a coffee at once. Yes, exactly, yeah. It has the Airbus trademark joystick, just like any commercial aircraft. Just like an A3, well, we have an A330 right in front of us here. Fly-by-wire controls. And that gives A400M amazing manoeuvrability. So even such a big aircraft like this, when you fly it and you use the fly-by-wire controls, you can really manoeuvre the aircraft very rapidly, which is really important for a military aircraft if you have some kind of threat, some kind of missile being fired at you or you just want to manoeuvre rapidly. Give us a little bit about the performance and the capability. Yeah, sure. A400M can fly up to 40,000 feet. The speed is measured in Mach. The top speed is Mach decimal seven two. The take-off weight, the maximum is 141 tonnes. For passengers, the aeroplane is designed so that the passengers jump out halfway round for parachuting. It's designed to let passengers jump out of the air. Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. In fact, here are the buttons here, the iconic red and green parachute buttons. That's for jumping out the doors. Exactly. And tell me about the engines. There's four engines, right? Exactly, four turboprop engines, and they're the most powerful turboprop engines in the Western world, over 11,000 horsepower. I guess this is where the paratroopers sit. Yes. Very unconventional, no windows. That's right. So today we have palletised seats, which could go all the way down the aircraft. On the floor of the aircraft, you can put seven pallets. So that could be seats like today or cargo or whatever. I see you have interesting structure here. Tell me more about this. The A400M, one of the roles it can perform is a medivac role, and you can have up to 66 stretcher patients on board. You can just see two of them here, but they can stretch along the side of the aircraft and also down the centre. We don't have it today, but you can set up the metal arrangement for the seats or extra stretchers up to 66. Ah, so you release the seats, trying out the seats like a bench on the side. A very different kind of experience. This is not usually for the passengers. Welcome on board the new Starlux 330M. I've flown the A350, but this one has a slightly different cabin because I remember the 350 was very black and there was a lot of stars, and this one has more silver, a little bit of gold bronze kind of tune, right? Again, fully flat seats. The first row has the biggest legroom in the footwell. These are the newer generation of staggered seats compared to the older one, because this one has a little bit more privacy, and it does raise a question of how to couple seats because there's actually like two modular seats combined together, right? So Sam, one of the new features of A330neo cabin is the new bin. If you open it, you can put in straight your luggage. That means five instead of three bags. So 16% more bin space. Actually, also integrated here is lighting feature. In the handrail, you can use that colour of light, 16.7 million colours, and we can, the overall cabin lighting, create scenarios for boarding, for dining. Just checking out the recline on the standard 330neo seats. A little bit more legroom than I thought. And these came from Recaro, the car manufacturer, seat maker. Recaro 3710, that's the model of the seats. I hope they can last 20-some years because this aeroplane should be good for flying over 20 years. And guess where I am? I came all the way down to the rear galley. Tell us if you have any new invention on this 330neo galley. Actually, it's a brand new innovation. It is called Ice Galley. That's a space-efficient galley. So we made additional space for four and a half more trolleys. If you look inside here, it looks like one trolley compartment, but in reality, it is deeper. It's one and a half trolleys behind each other. So one full trolley and one half trolley. And that was my quick coverage at the Singapore Airshow. Hope you enjoy it. Next, I'm heading to Australia for another exciting aviation adventure.