- Today I'm leaving Amsterdam. - Oh, yeah?
- 747. It was actually designed
by a captain on KLM. - This is so airy and spacious, right? It's such an elegant plane, and it's so--
- Queen of the sky. - The queen of the sky. And we have very special cargo today. - [Man] The horses! You see that horses have to pee. - So we woke up with a
passenger sleeping next to us. (horse neighs) - First, have a visit at
the new KLM Crown Lounge. Look at all these houses. Very very nice. (light upbeat music) - Good morning, welcome
to the blue restaurant. This is a brand new restaurant which is open just a couple of months ago. Part of the whole new renovation
of the blue experience. We have a bar which you can get cocktails, all the drinks that you want. We have over 200 liquors and sprits. And this is our brand
new a la carte restaurant created by Michelin-star
chef Joris Bijdendijk for Amsterdam from RIJKS. There we serve the most beautiful dishes with the best products in the Netherlands. - So here's the thing, there's
two floor on the KLM lounge. The first floor, everything is free. Free drink, free food, loads of people. Second floor is the place to come because it's got a outdoor terrace and it's got very very little people. Excellent privacy here. - Here's our cocktail menu. So it's inspired of the
hundred years of existence of KLM airlines. We connected a cocktail with a highlight. We provide a little
story, a classic cocktail with a Dutch twist. For example, the first flight to Indonesia we have an Indonesian rum we use. Made with William George rum. It's a rum made by one of
the most famous bartenders, winning world-class awards. Grated nutmeg on top. There you go. - [Sam] Beautiful, thank you so much. - You're very welcome, enjoy. - Cheers. (glass clinks) That's like a ice slurpee. Fifteen Euros is not cheap, this cocktail, but it's good quality cocktail. (light upbeat music) Look at all this. Seeing all the plane at E and F pier. Hi!
- Hi, welcome! - Oh, I'm super excited! - Oh, yeah?
- 747, yeah. - Well, welcome on board. Right upstairs, sir. - Hi, hello.
- Hello, sir, welcome. - How are you? - Good, thank you. Nice to see you. Oh, coming up the stairs. Hi, hello, how are you?
- Hi, Mr. Chui. Welcome aboard, how are you sir? - Super excited. Another 747 flight, yay!
- Yes, one of the last time. Have a good flight. (light music) - I think last time I flew on
a 400 Combi was 20 years ago, also with KLM. That was to Singapore, to Jakarta. So what do we got here? - Orange juice, water,
Champagne, beer, or-- - Heineken, okay. Orange juice. - Yes, that's a real Dutch beer. - Thank you. I'm a YouTuber actually, you know. I make travel videos and I meet people. I managed to swap a seat downstairs so I can record good take
off with the engine shot in front wing. And here is Liner, Bashin,
and Cynthia from Mexico. They're so kind, they're
giving me the seat. - The deal was that
you would get the seat, you will take care of him
for the rest of the flight. - Right, I'll get the seat,
and I'll take care of Bashin the rest of the flight. What a deal. (engines revving) (light upbeat music) - What a great 747 takeoff,
take us to warmer places. Mexico City. - [Flight Attendant] Okay, for the starter I have a choice of beef
with mixed mushrooms or I have tomato soup. - [Sam] I'll have a soup, please. - [Flight Attendant] Soup, okay. And for the main course,
I have captain's choice, grouper filled with pasta,
miso marinated chicken thigh, and braised veal tartlet. - [Sam] I'll have the captain's choice. - Okay. I have some choice of mixed
nuts or I have some cheese. (light upbeat music) - [Sam] Thank you. - [Flight Attendant] Would
like roll and some butter? - [Sam] Oh, yeah, okay. (light upbeat music) - The main course was
called a captain's choice. It was actually designed
by a captain on KLM who won the competition
within the company. It's predominately vegetable with dumpling with grouper fish inside,
it was quite interesting. - Would you like a KLM chocolate house? - [Sam] Chocolate houses? - [Flight Attendant] Yes. - This is a very special
galley because this was the former first class. The first class we used
to have until 1994. So I'll show you all the
details in the, whoops. Take care. Here you see here were the
sockets for the skillets. Here were the sockets. Here were the frying pans for the steaks and for the fried eggs. And we used to have two different soups for the first class passengers. And over here was the
broth, the very thin soup, and a very thick soup. And always above England
we started putting the big soup cups on a tray
and it started to be turbulent because it'd always be
on land and then on water and then we start shaking,
so it's always big fun. - [Sam] Do you like working
in this long galley? This is the best galley you worked? - Yeah, it's so spacious, you know? The newer aircrafts, they're so efficient, especially for the passengers
but this is so airy and spacious for us, so
we love working here. You know, I can help here very easily. It's a very strange
idea that this aircraft will not be flying anymore for KLM. - It's very very sad. - It's very sad and very strange. - Very strange.
- Right? It's such an elegant plane
and it's so smooth during the landing mode. Most of the time it feels
like butter, you know? It's so smooth, and it's so quick--
- Queen of the sky. - The queen of the sky,
absolutely. (laughs) - Now I want to share with all of you, in five days time on 21st January, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of Boeing 747 since it's first commercial flight with Pan-American. And KLM is not far away, KLM
got it in 1971, one year later. - Oh, how very special. - I love it, thank you so much-- - Oh, sorry, I hit my
microphone, I'm so sorry. (both laugh) Actually this is the director chair. - [Sam] Oh yeah this is
director chair, that's me. I be director here.
- Absolutely. - I'll be your director, I belong here. - Yes, it's fitting.
- It's great. - It's like a Hollywood chair, you know? Of course we feel a little bit as if we are in a film always, so we deserve these chairs as well. - Only for special people. - Very old coffee
machine, has never changed from the beginning on. So you open this one and you
can put a tin of coffee in and you push it through and
then coffee comes inside, and it's nice coffee. Oh, it's good coffee. So sometimes people come on board and say, "Oh, I smell the coffee." That's nice, very Dutch coffee. So Combi aircraft, and
half of the plane is filled with containers with cargo. And we have very special cargo today, and the Captain will go and show us what special cargo we have today. We'll follow him. (light upbeat music) You go ahead. - [Captain] You'll have to be a little bit careful here.
- [Sam] Oh, yes. - Because we have to-- Is that okay? - [Sam] Yeah, yeah, oh! - [Captain] The horses. - [Sam] Yeah. - You can come around the corner. Hello, guys. Whoa. Big horses, all going to Mexico. - [Sam] One small one in the middle. - [Captain] The small one, yeah. - [Sam] Big horses. - [Captain] And here
we have another stable with a few smaller ones. - We can come over here,
you see they are all boxes and it's almost full. - Amazing to see the cargo
hold during the flight. Oh yeah. There's one more pallet position here. - Yeah, this one is empty. - All right, yeah. Look at this, the pressurisation bulkhead. - [Captain] That's the aft
bulkhead, so that's where all the pressure is. So this is the rear part of
the normal passenger cabin where normally about 150
passengers are seated and where now seven containers
with cargo are standing. So we have three containers with horses and four containers with
all other kinds of cargo. And all the pipes and lines you see here are also overhead of the cabin. But of course there is a ceiling installed and here it's all open. These are the drive units. These are the wheels that
move the containers forward and aft, and they can rotate so they can also move the
containers left and right. And the red ones are the locks
and this also is a lock bar. - We're seeing some water
coming out and it smells. - [Captain] You see that
horses have to pee. (laughs) - [Sam] Oh! - [Captain] We can walk
around via this side and then through the front. - [Sam] You smell the hay. - (speaks in foreign language) This is the animal attendant. (laughs) - Hi Sam, how are you? - [Captain] Yeah, he's
taking care of the horses. - They're doing very well
actually here with the groom and it just a little bit smelly around. (light upbeat music) - We don't feed 'em,
there are hay nets hanging in front of the horses so that's enough for the whole flight. - [Sam] You have to check every hour or? - No, every two hours-- Yeah, I check them every two
hours and offer them water and that's mainly if everything's okay. - [Sam] Are they doing okay today? - Yeah, they're doing fine. Yeah, they're doing well, absolutely. (light upbeat music) - Welcome to my purser workstation. Here is my little office
and I work with this screen to reset systems for the
in-flight entertainment but I also can send personal messages like happy birthday or
please close the window. All kinds of different things. I can send it to the whole cabin but also to one individual seat. And this is a very old
plane, so in former days, we used to have cassette players, and the two cassettes would be in here. It's incredible that they're still here. And we used to have a big tower of video cassette players as well. And every two hours, I had to
switch the video cassettes. Took me quite a long time to keep track on when to use it and when to change it. So now my work is completely different for the new modern times. This is the trolley
for the second service. Upstairs we have small galley so we don't have space for the service and so we're going to change
them with the elevator. - [Sam] Ah, so you're
shifting all the new trolley to upper deck, 'cause
upper deck's too small. - Put it in here. - [Sam] This is the elevator? - [Flight Attendant] Yes. - [Sam] So your colleague
will receive this upstairs. - [Flight Attendant] Yes, yep. So, close the door and send it up. There it goes. It's gone. - How many trolley you got to shift? - I have to shift four trolleys. - Four times, trolley come down,
bring it to the long galley and bring the new one up. Ah, this one came down. - Yes, this one came down. Take it out and I go
back here to the galley. (light upbeat music) - Woo. It's been a crazy long
flight, 12 hours day flight. Now is about 30 past
midnight in Amsterdam, that's why I'm getting so tired. Slept a few hours. I mean, the 747 doesn't
have the latest product, the airline won't upgrade 'em, you don't have the latest IFE, wi-fi. The seats are okay, long bed. The downside is you have
to cross over my neighbour to get out every time so it's
not a most convenient one. But speaking of 747, the
crew were stellar here. They were amazing. When they found out I was a
747 fan, they really opened up. They were just doing their very best to show me everything as a favour so I had fantastic,
fantastic KLM 747 flight. (light downtempo music) - This is our collection
of Delft Blue houses and there are also
passengers who specially fly with KLM just for the house. We have this every flight,
we give you one house. They're made especially for us. It's a real collectors item,
there's a number on the rear and every passenger can follow
in the app, KLM houses app, which number they still need, what they have collected at home, and they're filled with Dutch gin. And this is something we
have specially made for us so it's real gift for the passengers. - I'm going to show you something
that you never see before. I had a very special house,
but I got it with KLM from a recycled plastic. Here, this one. - I've never seen that. - You've never seen this one? I've never seen that-- Wow, fantastic, fantastic.
- [Sam] Look at that. It's a green one, it's
made of recycled plastic. (light upbeat music) - [Purser] He has a system. 'cause we also have small
brochure with information about the KLM houses app. So lots of people have their telephone-- - [Sam] This gentleman
is serious collector. - Yep, he's very serious collector. Did you enjoy the flight
sir, is everything okay? Before we land, Sam, I
would like to show you one more thing, follow me, please. (light upbeat music) - So hold tight when you go up. - Wow, this is the crew rest. - [Purser] This is the crew rest. - It's a bit hard to come in. Wow, eight beds here. - The beds are made for
the way back already. So we have the seat belts
because we always have to wear a seatbelt when we lie down, of course. Safety first in our airline. - [Sam] Whoa, this is
better than business class. - (laughs) And you know it's lovely that we can stand up here
because in other aircraft it's so tiny and of course
they want to use the space so efficient, as efficient as possible, but this is so nice
because it's spacious here. Once, there was a passenger
who said, "Well, let's try "to open this door" and he
opened it and went upstairs and he laid down on one of the beds so we woke up with a
passenger sleeping next to us. It was very, very, very funny. - [Captain] We just started our
descent towards Mexico City. Remaining flight time slightly, depending on the traffic situation, Mexico is approximately 20 minutes. Current Mexico weather, it's partly cloudy with a light southeasterly wind and the temperature, 20 degrees celsius. - Bye, sir. Buh-bye. (speaks in foreign language) - I'm the last one to leave
the upper deck on the 747. Thank you. Thank you very much.
- Bye! - Thank you, bye bye. Thank you very much, thank you! - You're welcome!
- See you, bye. - It was a pleasure having you. - See you next time.
- See you next time, bye bye. (air wooshing) (bell dinging) (bubble popping)
