Aussie Outback Adventure: Special Flight on Qantas New A220

[@CaptainJNT]

I love how the A220 turned into Sam's logo at the end, what an epic ending❤😊!!!

[@SamChui]

Thank you. A very talented graphic editor added his magic touch!

[@electro_sykes]

@@SamChui I suggested the A220s be named Australian animals by their indigenous names. Sadly mine didn't make the final cut but one of them: Gunduy (Cassowary) did make the 40 shortlist.

[@esisolina1]

😅

[@optickmedia1281]

I work as a ramp agent at Melbourne Airport and I saw this plane for the first time last week... it's truly beautiful and honestly better to look at than the 737-800's I usually work on!

[@greekre]

how great of that man from qantas to honour and traditional land owners but how have qantas done that, traditional "dot" painting was created by a white artist, everyone knows this well everyone that doesn't call google "research"

[@diptodeeproy8981]

Sam Chui really like the serenity in your videos away from all the criticism around your videos give a calm feeling while you explore our beautiful mother earth !

[@david47s]

Absolutely!😍

[@asyd2905]

Stunning livery. Qantas is unbeatable when it comes to exterior art design.

[@Fishyfoo]

I’m so happy qantas finally got the a220! Can’t wait to hopefully fly it some day, love from Australia :)

[@GAGDR660]

Yeah

[@NoRegertsHere]

Qantas link *

[@steini6771]

Just FAB! Outstanding livery. Thank you all -

[@transfo47]

Really liked how the Indigenous Australian culture was highlighted.

[@michaelkay3451]

Qantas livery in green and not red. Looks so bold and different. Love it.

[@yummysatay]

Agree. The choice of artwork design nailed it on several levels. First, it represents the original artwork which was green, and a tribute to its indigenous roots. Green epitomize Qantas going green to help reduce pollution. Green stands out (from the others) as flagship of a new type, and also when it flies across the red desert @12:20 (even the timestamp is so A220).

[@GAGDR660]

Yeah, it looks so good

[@J13Storms]

Beautiful to see the QantasLink a220 indigenous Livery. Uluru looks beautiful too

[@nathanrobinson7086]

NICE MOVE QANTAS WITH THE A220-300

[@Nonexistent-v4p]

Yea but now we lost the beautiful 717s

[@grahambassett1048]

🇦🇺 G’Day Sam. A spectacular video once again. It was just so beautiful. The landscape & the QF A220 with a unique coloured tail. The vision of it doing flyby’s by Uluṟu was breathtaking.

[@mrkc10]

Outstanding video Sam. The footage towards the end is spectacular. A-220 seems like an interesting plane with impressive range capability. Very cool that you were able to speak with the creator of the A-220 on the flight. That’s certainly a very beautiful and unique part of Australia.

[@SamChui]

Thank you. It was truly remarkable seeing the outback on the newest A220 airplane.

[@adamheged6288]

A220 is such a beautiful plane. Hope you enjoyed your flight and keep up the great quality content.

[@claykemper7193]

Fabulous livery. Great to see the airline industry back from the covid mess.

[@kumaranravendradas4355]

Sam, the very first flight I flew on my own without parents and family was after I graduated from University. My father and my Australian uncle bought me a ticket to Sydney in 2011. I was so naive as to the aircraft type before flight but was so happy to see Cathay 747-400 with RR engines will be taking me to Hong Kong. By far the best aircraft for such long haul journeys but more so was the old Cathay livery with the dark green solid bar under the cockpit of 747. Never has a livery has worked so well on an aircraft (it didnt work as well on aircraft without double deck). This Qantas livery IS (along with the retro BOAC livery of BA 747-400) the best i've seen since. Stunning and so "un"-Qantas as I previously only ever saw that green colour on an Aer Lingus and thought, initially it looked like an Aer Lingus special livery.

[@SamChui]

Thanks for sharing your story. It must be CX100/101 :)

[@JustTravelJT]

Sam, it was a wonderful experience for us as viewers and I am sure it's even much more wonderful for you as well. Love such videos.

[@SamChui]

Thank you. The pleasure is mine. Growing up in Sydney, I never got a chance to visit the outback. This trip has re-connected me with Australia so it is very meaningful.

[@JustTravelJT]

@@SamChuiThat's Cool. Enjoy your time and share your Experience with us.

[@electro_sykes]

@@SamChui you came from Sydney. I live in Brisbane. I have been to the outback but thats because I have familly in North Queensland outback. Sometimes I fly to Townsville then go out to their property which is another 3 hours away and other times may drive. It takes like a day if your lucky, or if the conditions aren't great than about 2 days. I often went during spring because it is the muster season so they need extra people. Also its not too hot like summer but not too cold at night like winter.

[@mrwest5552]

definitely has that "new" aircraft look. Thank You.

[@Hukahey]

Stunning but would like the wingtips painted green. Ha ha glad you got to experience our beautiful dessert Sam.

[@Revilok08]

yeah, they really missed an opportunity there, they could even add some of the dot art to it as they where not able to do anything with the wing tips on the 787 cos. they are blended

[@mabesboxer1234]

Stunning idea by Qantas 👏🏿 to buy the A220 big win indeed

[@alabama1413]

A magnificent video Sam, full of mysticism, colour & the wonderful A220. The sight of the landscape & Ularu was awe inspiring.

[@SamChui]

Thank you. It was a great pleasure to witness and record the amazing landscape myself.

[@robaust3049]

Really glad to see the A200 now with Qantas.

[@peterjames8714]

Thanks Sam, a great video as usual. The 220 looks like an awsum aircraft. I visited Uluru in 1979 when you could camp near it & climb it. It was so windy at the summit that our photos (film not digital) were blurry. We wrote in the visitors book & climbed back down. Cheers from Bowral New South Wales

[@RailsandSky]

What a beautiful aircraft. Just gorgeous. I flew to Ayers Rock in a B717 in 2014 and stayed there for a few days. A wonderful experience to treasure. ✈

[@rachkate76]

It’s Uluṟu, cooker.

[@RailsandSky]

​@rachkate76 Don't be such a pillock. It was Ayers Rock when I was there and the aircraft destination stated Ayers Rock.

[@rachkate76]

@@RailsandSky don’t be such a divisive useless eater. It’s Uluru gronk- deal with it and get over yourself. Go back to QAnon.

[@rachkate76]

Don’t be such a racist divisive gronk. It’s Uluru- get over it and get over yourself.

[@rachkate76]

Racist coward

[@acadm]

One of my "bucket list" destinations is Ayer's Rock (Uluru), as well as Tokyo, Dubai, a tour of the major cities in China, and riding the Transsiberian Railway across Russia. While doing these "for real" would be spectacular, I'm glad I was virtually able to do Uluru via your channel, Sam. Thanks

[@nealpersad]

Marvelous , just marvelous. Thanks for sharing Sam.

[@coolbreeze2213]

Sam, It touches my heart when I see you go around the world and mingle with people of all nationalities and religions. You take your happy spirit everywhere. Your videos are wonderful.

[@keirra5096]

The A220 is such a beautiful plane.😊

[@skywarddreamschannel]

Really wonderful A220😊

[@Bostonn8]

Airbus owns the skies! I love it!

[@WAJIDHN]

13:15 lovely Sam chui Logo touch..

[@tommcdonald6597]

Excellent, thank you.

[@sparkymalarky4322]

Airbus aircraft are just beautiful

[@apache1234657]

that greens stunning

[@lffit]

As an Australian who has never visited the centre and now lives far away, on the continent in fact where these wonderful jets are made, the livery on this one is superb. Congratulations Qantas!!

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

Perfect timing! I'm going to Australia next week. I hope to fly this aircraft!

[@Lee_mtb6]

i love your videos Sam, Qantas is my favourite airline and love to see you fly with them

[@robertreiner3691]

Visited in 1988. First day was heavy rain with beautiful waterfalls coming off the rock. Second day was sunny and we were able to climb to the top of what was then called “Ayer’s Rock”. An unforgettable experience.

[@citibear57]

Sam, everything in this video was beautiful... the airplane, the landscape, and the Indigenous people. 👍 👍

[@awesomeadamfrom2099]

Awesome job sam with the airplane viol.

[@Revilok08]

Omg Sam, soo good to see you down under again, the a220 looks amazing. I still remember watching your Qantas research flight video back in 2019 I think it was, always good to see you on a Qantas plane!!!

[@SamChui]

Wonderful. I hope to be back again soon with more aviation adventures!

[@LetsgowithHyro]

Incredible footage for sure! Thanks for sharing Sam.

[@ryanjeffries2180]

Sam, great video. It was so heartfelt and beautiful. I love the A220.

[@aarnililja5599]

A220 is a great airplane✈️ You're the best aviation youtuber and afgee ever❤

[@diannewi]

I also lived in Sydney long ago, Sam. This video is, by far, my favorite of all the ones I've watched on your channel. The liveries on these new Qantas A220s are amazing. Thank you for including the Inma at the arrival airport, very moving.

[@michaelkay3451]

Very clever final ending

[@WarlordMoA]

Sam I’m happy that you’ve picked journey I’m quite surprised for a short haul flight there wasn’t any inflight entertainment but the best entertainment was ritual at the end and the drone show. A220 is going to be here for a good durations and, maybe a generation.

[@jiminyhopkins]

Thank you for the respect that you and the airline have shown to the indigenous people of this land.

[@samuel_tse]

i fell in love with the A220, what an marvelous piece of art from Canada!

[@adelguy67]

Incredible Plane, love the livery, I consider myself fortunate to having worked out at Yulara/Uluru for over 10 years!

[@westerlywinds5684]

I didn’t know Ayer’s Rock had an airport. When I lived in Australia in 1986, it just had a dirt strip for the flying doctor service. I loved Australia but I left for Canada in 1989, as it was too hot for me.

[@joevanseeters2873]

The new Qantas livery looks incredible! I absolutely love all the shades of green in it. MUCH BETTER than the old livery. Qantas should expand that livery to their entire line of airplanes. Also, that glass cockpit on that aircraft looked like something out of the future, even compared to other modern "glass" cockpit's. It's a far cry from an old non-computer/analog based instruments cockpit using all the dials, gauges, levers and switches. Someday those big airliners will be flying by themselves with no-cockpit probably. I talked to a A320 (the biggest passenger liner in the world) pilot when I flew on one to Australia when my daughter was in college there. He told me that he actually physically had control himself of the plane for a very short period during the flight at takeoff and landing, and that most of the time, the plane literally fly's itself by autopilot and he and the co-pilot spend the majority of the flight just monitoring all the systems. He said it's way easier to be a commercial airline pilot now days compared to the old days on manual flight controls. The margins of error are far less with automated flight control systems than with non-automated. Computers rarely, if ever, make mistakes. Humans make a lot of mistakes just due to being a human being rather than a computer or machine that never get's tired, hungry, emotional, etc. The only major problem with the newer style glass cockpits is that when you have a catastrophic screen failure, you have a BIG problem! With planes that have a blended system, if your LED instrument panel fails, you can still fly the plane using the older instruments. When you have a newer based aircraft based TOTALLY on LED screens similar to this new A220, what do you do when the LED screen fails in flight? And no doubt it has already happened OR WILL, absolutely guaranteed. You can't pull out a new screen and install it in flight. You can't simply put a new battery in the screen. I'm sure this issue has been discussed and tested in theory and in flight many many times, but there will come a day when one of those LED glass cockpit screens has a complete failure and then what's the pilot going to do if they can't see any of their instrument readings? Probably look at the co-pilot as they both shit their pants at the same time! Although I am sure they have at least the very basic of analog instruments somewhere in the cockpit for the pilots to use as a back up system should the LED screens fail. I'm sure that's why they have more than one screen in the cockpit also. So that if one screen fails, any information needed for flight could be input on the adjacent working screen. That's all good in theory, but what happens when ALL the screens fail due to some sort of electrical glitch or something like that (which WILL happen some day because it's a machine)? That's when it will go south as fast as Richard Petty at the Daytona 500! Although I am probably overthinking the whole glass cockpit issue. They have been flying with glass cockpits in thousands upon thousands of aircraft around the world, both Military and Civilian, for well over a decade or two now so they have probably figured out all the common "what if's" presented so far.

[@alasdairblack393]

I love flying on the A220, so comfortable.

[@OliDeu]

Hi Sam, when I flew to Ayers back in march 2005, from Sydney, you photographed my airplane taking off (QF 738, no winglet at the time !) and you sent me the pic straight to my mail, I had a D70 at the time and you a D300 If I remember well !! Great souvenirs... very special place, and very emotional report to watch. Cheers ;-)

[@joe-vl3nd]

Great video 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@3-5-9-61]

It is such a pleasure to share your travels with you Sam. You bring peace with you everywhere you go. Hey, as a child, I was fortunate enough to land with a jump seat view in Kai Tak Airport. WHAT A BLAST!!

[@timo8796]

What a beautiful aircraft and flight to Ayers Rock. Thanks Sam.

[@kamalsoan7222]

Sam - thank you for all the calmness in your videos, always leaving us with knowledge, historical information and great footages of the places you visit. May more success come your way 👍

[@JL-jr9gk]

The artwork on the plane is fantastic . Also those face nets are a great idea - Australian flies love to fly into the face!

[@-PORK-CHOP-]

The outro shots were spectacular, the plane looked like a bird gliding 👍👍🦘🦘

[@filmnoirnyc]

That's awesome Sam. Keep them coming...

[@SkyusaNguyen]

Thanks Sam for an amazing video 👍😀

[@BrettRaymondWilliams]

Great shots of the plane in the out back really enjoyed the video.

[@kamransyed8205]

Absolutely brilliant Vlog 🛫

[@nkr1935]

Beautiful Sam, thanks for bring these amazing footages!!

[@peerkelinnartz3946]

Wow, Sam! The last videos I saw of you had amazing quality footages! You produce outstanding great work that is incomparable to more regular aviation floggers. Keep going!

[@wafflesnfalafel1]

I know it's largely promotional, but great vid for a spectacular new bird - thank you sir. It's really looking like that A220 is basically a more efficient and longer range MD80 - hard to be beat that. Love the footage at the end.

[@jamesshortt5595]

Sam, this might be your best presentation/video yet. Well done!

[@ricfe]

Sam, as always surprising the Aeronautical world, What a wonderful trip, enjoy your trips and keep sharing them. Thank you.

[@xxtimproxx2004]

9:21 ayo Sam didnt knew you were this freaky

[@ryori4176]

You are the world's greatest vlogger. Cheers...

[@lvldarwin]

The footage of the A220 cruising past Ayers Rock is absolutely stunning. 12.22

[@custarddragon9349]

As an Australian, i say QANTAS use the indigenous liveries forever, it makes the planes look really good, and QANTAS made a mega win buying A220s, they can connect more of Australia together with its much longer range of just over 6000 km

[@djbuckeye1417]

Sam, another very nice vlog, another beautiful aircraft, a very interesting highlight involving the middle of Australia and its people, and some exquisite artwork, too!

[@fercho4x4]

Wow. This video is awesome. Love the livery and the place is beautiful 🤩

[@class6er]

Lovely video, been waiting for this one. Great content, gorgeous aircraft, beautiful paint scheme, magnificent landscapes, and yet the interview with Rob. Way to go Sam.

[@GillGillyBean]

Thank you Sam for this video. Really interesting & glad you enjoyed the trip.

[@paulgiddings6281]

Fantastic video Sam, thank you for sharing

[@alexandrelucascoelho7175]

What a spectacular video, what a plane, what a landscape....what a country Austrália ❤

[@kaiserinisla]

Another beautiful video! Thank you!

[@jaye909]

Great to see one of the world's most important airlines introducing this excellent jet.

[@louiseleonard1992]

My Aussie airline glad you enjoyed your trip to Australia and come back again soon

[@arnebrauer]

I visited Australia twice and the days at Uluru where really special. And I love the Australia outback. Red sand but trees and spinifax grass.

[@gabenorth-harney9349]

Well crafted and respectful video, Sam. Well done

[@phillipmaguire4671]

Hello to you there Sam. Your videos are always full of life and uplifting... this one is no exception to that. Made me feel so good about aviation and how it plays such a vital role in bringing people together.

[@simonealexander7313]

I love flying over Australia (my home). Always something to see and I love the colours of the outback in particular. I've flown into AYQ before - had the same view of Uluru and Kata Tjuta as you did!

[@yellowboot6629]

Thank'YOU Sam❣️

[@Busanmochi]

Wow Sam, I am subscribed to your channel for this quality. Your way to connect your feelings to our feelings as a huge worldwide community, I love it, you are a peace messenger!

[@davidsolis6691]

Love everything about your videos(exciting and interesting too)! Love visiting other cultures and you help me decide which airlines to use too! Thanks so much for another great video!!

[@aviation37.]

The legend is back

[@pablorubio8287]

The green livery looks amazing with the Australian landscape. I hope I can fly on it one day ;)

[@Jacob42626]

Airbus A220 then Bombardier C series such an incredible aircraft.

[@thebrentrobinsonshow2882]

The Jet is looking real nice.

[@mandymelissatromp5031]

Waiting for the first who want to name their airline or airport after you Sam! ;-) Great job as always.

[@Char_137]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊hello from Rio in Braziiiiilllll!!!!!! Cheers❤❤❤

[@enjoypladecorrals]

Superb video. Great destination and great plane too. I flew airbus 220 to riga from valencia, almost 4 hours. It is a quiet and comfortable plane to be in.

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

Qantas 747 in special livery will be my all-time favourite livery

[@flyingpedal]

Merci. Très beau reportage encore. De plus vous innovez à chaque fois 😍😍 This plane the CSeries made in Quebec fly faraway now !

[@hendongooner7383]

Superb vid Sam. Cheers.

[@udayakumarjourneys2130]

Very nice bro ❤

[@TrainzTramz2025]

I'm so happy there is a220s in Australia now! Nice video Sam, hope you had fun.