TRIPREPORT | El Al (ECONOMY) | Boeing 787-9 | London Heathrow - Tel Aviv

[@husseinandout3867]

We took those times for granted. Pre-covid travel was easy and so much fun. Life was just beautiful. It feels like we're doomed now.

[@come_explore_with_me_IL]

Ya so true, but we complained about leg room, plane food, and all the hassles of flying. And now we'd all love to just get on a plane and fly! But what do you think, when this is all over we wont go back to complaining? Shalom from Israel.

[@Joseph-xj4ex]

@@come_explore_with_me_IL Would love to visit Israel, what a beautiful country! Stay strong in these hard times.

[@jamesalexander5588]

It's easy to go to Israel now all you need is covid cover on your insurance. I'm going in September.

[@avialp1048]

me too brother i really miss Israel a lot I was there in 2015

[@st0nk172]

in asia, we still have hot meal even for 1.5 hours international flight but mostly no dessert

[@afcacbs8544]

Chassie Loh you have to pay for it at airasia and scoot though

[@st0nk172]

dont compare el al with LCC though

[@Moha-eh9tq]

in middle east air arabia, 7 hour flight they only give you 1 meal that YOU have to pay for. And its bland and tastes bad

[@st0nk172]

@@Moha-eh9tq air Arabia is lcc don't compare lcc with full service airline

[@bwnflyer8654]

Yeah i agree! Even Royal Brunei still have hotmeal for 1hrs 30mins flight especially Brunei - Ho Chi Minh City route!

[@Kayshots]

This trip report makes me feel like im actually there! Great channel by the way man!

[@ianholliday497]

The seats and the EFI screens looked great for Economy

[@girijasankarpal3399]

*IFE

[@alexandresadunishvili9394]

Entertainment Flight In 😨

[@aaravsgaming337]

@@girijasankarpal3399 ye

[@jaydenlee4079]

FIE EIF EFI FEI EFI IFE

[@sahanest]

Love el al. Their flight attendants are not rude and the food is good. Nothing else matters in economy. But it does get noisy but everyone seem to along and so it works.

[@bi1iruben]

Being El Al, I presume there had been a security chat before even being able to approach the check-in desks? Would not have been allowed to film if so, but useful to know as tends to slow down check-in process a little.

[@BigPeretz]

Yes, I was at Barcelona and we had to stop before checking in. (Even if you are from Israel and speaking Hebrew, also if you are Jew.)

[@LS-Moto]

@@BigPeretz Not a surprise though, given how much antisemitism is still around.

[@BigPeretz]

@@LS-Moto The people checked us were Jewish from Israel as well

[@LS-Moto]

@@BigPeretz They're going to check everybody. Nobody has written on their forehead if they're Jewish or not. If they allow for Jewish people to go through unchecked, than that creates a loophole for anyone that has harmful intentions.

[@nycflyertravel]

Glad to see you finally did El Al! Their 787 looks really nice, but I wish they kept their 747s a bit longer.

[@xa613rzinfiniteflight8]

Agreed, the first time I flew to Israel was a couple years back from JFK-TLV on their 744. If they were to have kept em longer they'd need some serious upgrading

[@yuriyumanskiy3916]

I flew on their 747 from JFK... pretty dated, not very comfortable. But 787 also has questionable designs. Who the hell does two prong audio jack these days? Come on...

[@jayd1426]

Yuriy Umanskiy I love the Queen of the Skies though

[@jayd1426]

Yuriy Umanskiy those 747 seats were way more spacious than the 10 abreast seating in the 777

[@yalihachamov2885]

I don’t love El Al tbh. There on ground services are horrible and the same goes with their in flight services. Delays occur very often too. On almost all of my flights with them the service was just so so. I like airlines like Turkish a lot more

[@jackglicktheinternationalvlogg]

El al is an awesome 👌 airline! I've flown recently Sept 2019 and Sept 2022. Both times they were superb and gave us white wine and red wine 🍷 for our honeymoon and my birthday!

[@evanelder1802]

I’m in London right now, I was there for a week and I loved it, I’m now flying back to New York,

[@Mauri_1584]

Evan Elder Lucky I only flew to places in the United states

[@emiratesawesome]

The quote in Hebrew at the end said: ״תודה לך ושיהיה לך יום נפלא!״ And in English: Thank you, and have a wonderful day!

[@planesense7390]

yeah but its backwards

[@ethane.5772]

The cabin crew seem very friendly and the cabin looks very sleek and modern. Good job el al

[@Ventixo]

watching this is making me tear up, i wish to visit my country soon

[@jordankendall878]

This confuses me, I flew the exact same flight twice, once in 2018 and in 2019. On both flights i received a full hot meal service of meatballs with couscous, a salad, bread a drink, and a cake. Whilst it wasn’t Michelin star, it definitely wasn’t the worst airplane meal I’ve had in my lifetime.🤨

[@kingl3023]

Explains why bcs u r from israel

[@anakinskywalker8327]

@@kingl3023 ok and ?

[@bradJJ]

מה קורה ידידי מישראל

[@marioluxrodriguez5048]

proofs?

[@airlinetraveller]

Simply an awesome video of El Al! Thank you for sharing with us! =D

[@Airbus3704]

Great flight to be real once I flew on their b787 but the problem there wasn’t in flight entertainment some airplanes have like your and mine don’t had even but hope you enjoyed

[@jdmguy44]

Serving a cold sandwich as a 'meal' on an evening flight of four hours is poor in my opinion.

[@dazlebluefrogify]

i agree

[@maranza9907]

dazlebluefrogify i disagree

[@antonleung1282]

Meanwhile, in east Asia, even for a 1.5-hour long flight(for example Hong Kong to Taipei) economy class has a standard hot meal dinner.

[@raihanhafizh7755]

I agree too

[@afcacbs8544]

Why does it always have to be hot?

[@jeremyhaines3847]

I flew with El Al in the 90s when I went on holiday to Israel El Al is a very good airline And the crew were really nice people

[@benschaeffer8102]

Agreed. And that was WELL before the 787-9; I used to fly the old El Al 747's and the flights and service were just fine. I like the look of the 787-9, and hope to someday take a flight on it.

[@tannustv1000]

So I took a ELAL flight from Tel Aviv to Miami and back with the 787 and I love the Airline but if you are not Jewish they will ask you a lot of questions

[@semsemeini7905]

The food looks good. After all this flight left very late at 11 PM.

[@esccyanx]

its Netta Barzilai! She won Eurovision in 2018!

[@BigPeretz]

CyanPanda Yes, here at Israel we glad that people know her name.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

CyanPanda yes she is good

[@orionwesley]

New ad campaign: "Jesus walked. I fly El Al." Also this made me want a sandwich real bad.

[@Saifull1991]

Quite impressive stuff by El Al.

[@TheSofa7910]

I admire u guys can visit Tel Aviv freely. My country banned us to visit there ☹️☹️ What a shame…… Anyway , good video 👍👍

[@ahhitskatie9094]

Eren Yeager so sorry to hear your country won’t allow you to visit! I hope and pray that you will be able to one day!! 💕

[@TheSofa7910]

Amber Katie thanks 🙏🙏

[@cptamit2570]

Why ??

[@ezgoing4260]

@@cptamit2570 Because Israel has been known for a while to kill and oppress people

[@laughableorc6878]

You're The Best From The Rest!!!!!! Keep it Up///// I watch simply aviation because of your reports!!!!! They are crazy👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lnr243]

I missed Israel a lot. I can't wait to be able to board a plane to Ben Gurion freely again..Thanks for the video it made me feel like travelling to Ha'aretz.

[@mblackops2]

No such thing as Israel... only Palestine 🇵🇸

[@lnr243]

@@mblackops2 Even the word Palestine isn't Arabic..Its given by Romans and Its actually Regina Palestina..Arabic Alphabet do not have letter P but Hebrew Alphabet Letter P and letter F are exactly the same Letter..

[@mblackops2]

@@lnr243 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 I will rightfully return to my Grandpas home land and claim what’s rightfully mine by blood one day

[@lnr243]

@@mblackops2 Dream on Son..Medina Israel 🇮🇱 will not let you in unless you have a Western Passport eve then you will face a 6 hours questioning session.. You wont be able to settle there though..As we say THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL...

[@guyshap1627]

@@mblackops2 my family is living in israel for hundreds of years how is that your land??

[@deeprules01]

First commenter. I just love your videos that I wait for them to upload day by day. So I want you to upload your videos everyday

[@timsmoviefactory2197]

I flew with smartwings on 4 hour flight in 737-800 and there wasn't any meal! Only small cup of water. I really don't like smartwings

[@BigPeretz]

Tim ́s Movie Factory I flew with Norwegian and we didn’t got even water lol (4:30 hours of flight time)

[@FlyersAviation]

Outstanding Trip Report Simply Aviation! Liked

[@singalong9962]

This video is very good, very detailed and in high resolution. I think British Airways offers a better quality of service on this route and will therefore avoid El Al. Thanks for providing this video, it helps me make an informed decision which airline to fly with.

[@taliwalt5332]

If the flights were priced the same, I think I'd have to go with El AL. I've watch too many accident investigation videos on KZbin, and El AL's safety record is beyond outstanding. 0 fatalities (on commercial passenger flights) in over 50 years. The record is only marred by one flight in 1955 when the airplane was tragically shot down after strayed into Bulgararian air space. 58 soups were lost.

[@ponyclub3198]

I have flown both ElAl and BA many times on this route, and ElAl is better. BA is a really disappointing airline.

[@dospalmascb]

Looking at direct flights from the uk and I’m torn between BA and El Al, there’s a huge difference in price even without using a iOS. ( out economy and return leg in business isn’t much more than EL Al premium economy)

[@thefirelordfr]

As things have returned to what feels like normal, I bet it will feel great when I go overseas via El Al

[@jackbulman8114]

judging by the date on the screen at the gate , i conclude this was filmed around the holiday of passover ,in which there are additional and even more strict kosher laws than the rest of the year, which might explain the poor meal situation ...

[@patrickmoralesramon9577]

Really glad to see this trip report! I'm actually doing this same journey in December except with BA on their A350. Would be great to see how they compare to El Al

[@yuvalaharony7864]

I took an EL AL afternoon flight and it was much better then the flight Felix took

[@semsemeini7905]

Prefer EL AL over BA.

[@frooshycarvel8420]

What is the intro song name pls!?

[@darrenjohnson4420]

I love the sound of the RR Trent 1000, hopefully RR will resolve the problems they're having

[@johns9864]

Catering is sub standard. For a 4 hour 20 min flight: no hot meal!

[@antonleung1282]

John S Meanwhile, in east Asia, even for a 1.5-hour long flight(for example Hong Kong to Taipei) economy class has a standard hot meal dinner.

[@troodon1096]

In the US you'd be lucky to get more than a bag of pretzels for that long of a flight. That sandwich actually looks pretty good, by the standards of airplane sandwiches.

[@ITripReport]

You cleaner have never flown on an US or even some European carrier

[@Bajooooo]

In European flight most airlines have paid catering. Its cheap and taste amazing. Like LOT polish or Finnair. El al have nice sandwich

[@johns9864]

I know how cheap and stingy American and European carriers are from first-hand experience, as I live in America, duh. But, that doesn't mean I don't criticize them, especially when I compare them to Asian airlines and their exceptional service.

[@-_-_-_-744.]

Finally😍😍

[@AviationReviews]

The Boeing 787 my favourite Boeing aircraft , I've flown on this aircraft it is very nice and comfortable . Nice Video .

[@dazlebluefrogify]

better than the queen of the skies ?

[@AviationReviews]

actually the 747 is better

[@helenpeat3294]

Yeah boeing 787 is my first fav plane my second fav plane is the airbus a320 and my third fav plane is the airbus a350

[@LanaQ838]

Nice video, I am missing travelling at the minute. I've never flown this 'red eye' flight but they do normally serve a hot meal on the afternoon flight! ❤️

[@theactualnic]

Pity about the meal, although perhaps it was difficult finding a large scale Kosher caterer at Heathrow, just a guess?

[@nansu3380]

Planespotters: Films plane as it takes off Me on plane: Points camera back Groundpeople Spotting!!

[@AndreiTupolev]

You skip over "security checks are done too", but are El Al still as famously hot on security as they used to be, or has everyone else caught them up now?

[@JoshDoesTravel]

Cold meal could have been because of a lack of a large enough kosher kitchen, or because of the late departure, and el al thinking most passengers would rather sleep than eat

[@Gamingwithpelg]

4 years later i flew with el al this January and i was exactly at gate 3 and on this plane!

[@LewisYamanoteAintReal]

I hope you got there safely in these dark times.

[@איתיקסלר-ו3ע]

what do you think about el al felix greetings from israel

[@aagx1525]

Thanks for flying El Al! How was it in Tel Aviv?

[@JBugz777]

תודה לך ושיהיה לך יום נפלא! 🙏😄

[@seangurevich5077]

El Al is a decent company, a big minus is that her prices are really expansive.

[@ylilin]

EL AL knows their very loyal customer base will continue flying with them no matter what, therefore they see no reason to reduce their prices.

[@jaredini]

The guy in the safety video is Lior Suchard, popular in Israel.

[@Denoxyz]

Wow maybe one day i got to try el al airlines you know

[@yaronsteinbuch3956]

כל הכבוד, אל על! Terrific airline, great pilots and excellent cabin crew. But I agree that a hot meal was needed. Sandwiches should be for secondary meals, not the main ones on a flight from the UK to Israel. I’ve always loved the approaches to the Israeli coast over the Mediterranean. The airport is very close to Tel Aviv so once you’re over the city, the landing is just moments away. Thanks for flying El-Al!

[@Cali-707-ica]

I flew them six months ago on a long haul from LAX to TLV, and then back to SFO. Great service and food was good.

[@jeffhacker4588]

as you would expect on a 15 hour flight. You can't compare this with the LHR-TLV service, at 4:30 and overnight.

[@omersellouk2619]

Thank you very much for this, friend! Really appreciate it from Israel (:

[@jaredini]

I flew with them in the same row but on the retro liner. My meal both there abd back was chicken/Turkey meatballs with couscous, tomato sauce and green beans. Peppers with humous dip and chocolate sponge. That or fish. I would have preferred the meal you got. Was yours the glitter kosher option?

[@paulkazzer]

El Al plan non stop flights to Melbourne Aus next year. Will be longer than Doha Auckland. Great video. Thank you.

[@davidcartwright5591]

Paul Kacirek . As I understand it , it’s just a trial and it’s not definite the service will ever materialise in reality . I live in Sydney and it’s also rumoured there may be a ELAL service here too .

[@manohardalvi907]

Is elal service 4 or 5 star?

[@Ahuntsicspotter]

3 star airline but before it was a 2 star airline.

[@hkdiva2015]

At that time of the night, why would you request a full hot meal? Most people would like to get some shut eye at those kinds of hour.

[@alanm3440]

I think it's still the norm and expected though. I recently flew long-haul to Taiwan and my flight left at 2:00 AM. To my surprise at 3:00 AM they came around with a full hot dinner!

[@hkdiva2015]

@@alanm3440 The origin of your recent flight to Taiwan?

[@alanm3440]

hkdiva2015 Vancouver to Taipei

[@hkdiva2015]

@@alanm3440 I suppose it's intended to shift your body clock to the Taipei Local time due to the significant time difference between the two destinations, compared to the flight in the featured video as there isn't too much of a time discrepancy between London and Tel Aviv. 0300 in the Pacific Time would be 1800 in the Chinese Time (Taiwan, HK, Macao, Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore all fall on the same time zone)

[@MEGIDIOT]

hkdiva2015 lol wut

[@MadeiraAirport]

Indeed the meal was quite poor, the sandwich looks really nice :) Having personal IFE was great!

[@planesense7390]

Hermolis food is amazing

[@Dragflyer9669]

I had a trip on Brunei Airlines from London to Heathrow. I was struggling too when the gate wasn't reflected on the screen. Now I know the reason =D lol. Great trip report.

[@Kuricang31]

Wait what?? 'From London to Heathrow' lololol

[@FlyingAsia]

Nice review Felix!

[@hannakarram2237]

finaly el al ❤❤ and welcome in israel

[@kumamon1558]

Great video! Hope you enjoy your time in Israel.

[@galadato7425]

סוף סוף ישראלים בתגובות.

[@Mauri_1584]

Why was the safety video only in one language usually a lot of airlines put it in their language and english

[@NYLUB]

The English version follows the Hebrew one

[@বিউটিফুলবাংলাদেশ-ঢ৬ম]

When you go to Dhaka Bangladesh?

[@simply_aviation]

Next year 😉

[@framadhan5093]

Really ? They dont provide english subtitle / english version of their safety instructions video ?

[@tamiraronovitch1761]

There is an English version, For some reason they didn't upload this part here.

[@tamasgrosser2696]

The safety movie is in hebrew first, then in English.

[@stuartlee6622]

Their 707's were great.

[@phillycheese954]

@simply aviation Be grateful you did a trans continental flight in America which was a 5 hour flight and just got a simple snack

[@benwolverson4420]

Netta as the home screen of the IFE yeeees ❤

[@MK-kn1dx]

Your Thumbnails are amazing .... I love it 😊✌️

[@OfirMor747]

I watting for this Months!!!!!! Love you from israel🇮🇱❤

[@danielkanzieper9558]

Me too

[@omgxextra7246]

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 Israël 🇮🇱

[@galadato7425]

גם אני מחכה לזה

[@maytalschwartzman4817]

מה קורה אחי

[@Quelmanteau]

@@omgxextra7246 we are here to enjoy flight reviews, not to speak about politics.

[@curby5]

Woke up to find a freshly released Simply Aviation video :D

[@guilinhu144]

Anyone noticed that there is a row of red lights at the front of the wings? Is this unique to El Al? I never noticed this in my other flights on the 789

[@saranshchaudhary5228]

Guilin Hu where in the video did you see that

[@tepinkie6393]

Its a reflection on the wing of the Air stairs on the other flight

[@David-eh9nw]

Guilin Hu El Al Flights are equipped with anti surface to air technology

[@pianemova]

their security team is no joke, I took nearly 2 hours only to clear the x-ray machine due to arab stamps on my passport.... lots of questioning.... hellish experience.

[@jamievally3176]

andlufds something i would expect from every airline.

[@truphot1]

Yes because if you traveled to pakistan iran and stuff they want to confirm youre not a spy and stuff...

[@TheMasterhomaster]

You guys fly so often, how can you not invest in priority pass???

[@simply_aviation]

We all have Priority Pass memberships...

[@Vijay.chauhan7777]

My country India Mumbai to Israel so beautiful country Israel full enjoy

[@miriamslife8419]

Btw what's your favourite airline? My fav is the german Tuifly. What about you?

[@yousiffiras9691]

Its my favorite airlines el al אל על ♥️

[@tamasgrosser2696]

The hebrew sentece at the end of the film is mirrored - that means, instead of the right way (right to left) the letters are in left to right order, so it is incorrect.

[@th3potatogang951]

U should do a trip report on FIJI airlines new A350

[@noamsheffer7127]

Best airline in the world

[@adamhecht6399]

Question. JUNE 2001, LAX>TLV, TLV>LAX (except returning we had unexpected Stop JFKNYC, why?). Neu.

[@teodor1403]

Nice video like allways, but no hot meal? Common even agean airlines serves hot meal on a flight of 1hour and 20 min...

[@brahimbouichfar4926]

Omg, you can see two China southern pilots walking in front of you in the terminal at Heathrow, one is a foreign pilot, that’s so cool!!

[@Buc-ees1981]

3:40 ...... The zohan.. disco disco good good

[@cu5856]

El Al at long last! I've been really fascinated with this carrier for a long time.. I hope you'll try other Israeli carriers in the future like sun D'or and israir..

[@benjya]

I think (rightly or wrongly) the lack of hot meal is because it's a short(ish) night flight.

[@Yves_Ka]

Turkish Airlines serve hot meals on ALL their international flights - Even shortish ones of 1.5 hours (Istanbul- Tel Aviv)

[@shikhadixit9123]

Felix,Simon and David how did you got this much money to travel around the world

[@ananthasrikara1167]

Love to visit Israel

[@dazlebluefrogify]

nice report as always Felix ,was the pillow and blanket just because ir was night flight ?also when you were looking through the "movies" i noticed Capitain Phillips ! i wonder how many people watch that during a flight !!LOL

[@487mnj]

yessss finally a flight report of ELAL!

[@manohardalvi907]

Achievement watched a new video from simply aviation 575 th video watching , seriously : D 😁😁😁🙂🙂

[@ylilin]

I've been really looking forward to an EL AL review. Thank you!

[@phillipmaguire4671]

Not hot main meal.... Why not El Al...? Sandwich is suitable for a 2 hour flight.... but not for a 4 hour flight.

[@itaytiomkin]

YES😆😆😆 And yes, the airline IS getting better, great planes!

[@Journey.melodiesofficial]

I love your videos!

[@shmogolol115]

As a person who live in Israel, i like your videos and i watched you since i was young and now i want to become a pilot. Thank you for all your great videos. For some time o forgot about your account and now that i found it im very happy! :D

[@afcacbs8544]

Didn’t get shit on my Delta flight from DTW to SFO so this is great stuff

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

El Al has a very poor reputation in Israel, most would rather fly on other airlines when going abroad, and this reputation still persists. Expensive tickets, crappy service, packed like sardines in economy, and scheduling problems. That said, recently I flew with El Al to Hong Kong on their Dreamliners and it was a good, quiet flight, decent food, and both landings were ahead of schedule. So I guess it depends on the route. Probably best to fly on their Dreamliners and avoid the 737 to closer destinations. Oh and about the cost, it was one of the only 2 options I had for direct flights to HK, the other was Cathay Pacific for 1.5 times the cost of El Al.

[@Aureas2]

Very nice cabin 👍🏼

[@angelocanasanchez.1618]

Amazing video!

[@lukelabuschagne6801]

You need to set your camera to the correct settings for the plane, those lines get annoying

[@awyongleongsoo35]

Can take picture with EL AL Israel Airlines Cabin Crew? Do they give free plane model on board?

[@Kuricang31]

No airlines did the last one sadly. They may give you playing cards or coloring books for free though but only upon request or if you bring a toddler with you. Garuda Indonesia at one time once gave you a toy car to any kid younger than 12 years old before landing but that was long time ago I'm not sure about taking pictures with El Al crews as all of them are reservists of the IDF and with current situation in Israel, it's possible for El Al to not allowed it due to privacy reasons. But I don't know, never asked for one