EMIRATES 777 First Class 🇦🇪 Dubai ✈ Muscat 🇴🇲 The ORIGINAL Game Changer

Watch this video if you want to know what it’s like to fly in Emirates’ original (aka older) Game Changer First Class. This seat certainly doesn't get that much attention anymore, but it should! Their cabins are impeccable and the service on this flight was absolutely flawless. Watch this video to see just how good a 40 minute flight could be!

🎥 In this video:
-Dubai Transit Experience
-Concourse C First Class Lounge
-Boarding & Gate
-Full Seat & Cabin Tour
-Amenities on Offer
-Full Late Night Dinner Service
-Incredible Service
-Take off & Landing

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💸 Fare Paid
Fare Paid: 90000 Emirates Skywards Points + $681.60 USD
Class: Firs (BRU-DXB-MCT)
Inclusions: Seat Selections, 2+1 Carry On, 50kg Baggage, Lounge Access

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🎶 Background Music in This Video
➟ “Desert Heart” by Nadaz
➟ “El Baya” by Meriem Ben Amor
➟ “Desert Fields” by Perle Blanche
➟ “Yolana” by Dan Zeitune
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↪ Video Chapters ↩
0:00 First Class Escort, Intro
00:53 Dubai Terminals
01:46 Emirates First Class Lounge
03:11 Terminal Impressions
03:37 The Original Game Changer
04:52 Our Gate
05:12 Boarding Begins, Flight Stats
05:47 Warm Reception on Board, First Impressions
06:17 Detailed Cabin & Seat Tour
06:51 Pre Departure Service
10:18 Let’s Get Going
12:15 Spool Up, Take off, Airport Stats
13:27 Meal Service Begins
14:36 In Flight Entertainment
15:05 First Class Bathroom, Loose Ends
15:39 Beginning Approach into Muscat
16:30 Landing & Deplaning
18:04 The Flip Flop Score

This is NOT a promotional video. I pay for all of my flights and hotels (and I always tell you how much!) so I can be as honest and impartial as possible. I do not receive any special treatment that wouldn’t otherwise be publicly accessible, in fact, the hotels and airlines have no idea about my visit and that's the way I like it!

#emirates #firstclass #gamechanger

[Mzd]

road to 100k! I remember when you had a couple of thousand, congrats well deserved!

[johngalt]

The Jaguar XJ comment and the whisky in the paper cup have now officially made you my favourite travel vlogger 👌

[puremadnessman]

Best luxury travel channel ever! I'm going to fly Qatar 6 times next month (1 economy, 4 business and 1 first) and now I'm planning to record the experience (for personal purposes) based on you content lol! Thanks for posting, Kevin!

[dubz]

I tend to watch quite a few travel reviews, yours are the best I've seen.

[Rentraveller]

You have a great voice for narrating these videos and the editing is so clean. Among flight review YouTubers out there, you are one of the most comprehensive and I can just sit for hours watching your content. Keep up the great work!

[nezbrun]

I used to regularly fly the A340-500 in F between Dubai and Sydney in the mid 2000s, it was the only aircraft in those days that had he range. At the same time, for several years until the A380 became ubiquitous, the 777s still had the lazy-boy recliner seats in a 2-2-2 config in F. There were also a few 777s in another 2-2-2 config with dividers between the seats on the various Australia/NZ routes that stopped in Asia on their way.

Over time all the 777s finally had the 1-2-1 suite configs installed, but it took many years, there was quite a hotch potch of cabin configs at the time in F.

I took my first 1-2-1 in a 777 to Narita, and didn't miss not having a bar or shower of the A380. Those 8 seats make it very exclusive. I find I sleep a lot better on these seats compared to the game changer, where my limbs fall off the side.

That Emirates F lounge was their first F lounge in DXB. The showers are still a bit meh, very pokey and showing their age. Bumped into Niki Lauda in there once in his way back from the Melbourne GP. About a decade later I found myself dining at an adjacent table to him again in the new F lounges.

Regarding the to-go drink, that reminds me of flying Concorde in the 90s LHR-JFK and back. I always used to sit right at the back as it was less busy, I never had anyone sitting next to me when travelling alone. It was also adjacent to the rear galley, so if you had the right crew they topped up my glass for landing as long as I held onto it, and then topped it up again once landed.

[sandeepthilakan]

The production quality, animations, narration, and to top them all, the unbiased reviews. Congratulations on hitting 100K, and may the force be with you to soon hit 1M.

[tomsoden]

I was offered a buggy ride and a guide to the lounge when I got upgraded to First Class, I really didn't want the attention. I loved the first class lounge, it was almost empty because it was during the back end of Covid. On the return trip, the business class lounge or the whole second floor of the terminal was rammed and they had nowhere to store hand luggage, and a queue for the showers. Even though it was a morning flight, they had to eject some drunk Russian guests, and one of them fell down the stairs :o Luckily he just bounced back on to his feet. Amazing people watching.

[eshgholah]

As a scotch lover Ice cubes do trigger some kind of disappointment in my heart. Whisky with ice is a crime in my world 😂😂😂

[gibbs]

This is what makes Emirates one the absolute best in the world year after year. One of my travel bucketlist is from my country to Auckland in first class roundtrip.
Greetings from Oslo, Norway

[shakesnbake]

That's more like it. Love this. Also love the bong after you say "Let's get started" - nice touch :)

[ozzy-]

Great video Kevin! I agree, I have only ever flown their old first class on both the 777 and a380, still a quality product! I noticed the service seemed to be exact opposites to your game changer flight!🎉

[sarthsingh]

Amazing trip report Kevin! Loved the narration throughout the video

[DeniseSommerRoque]

What a thoroughly enjoyable review to watch! Even though Emirates gaudy over the top style is not my favourite, you have to give them credit where credit is due. This is what first class should be like, short- medium- or long-haul. Attentive, exclusive and indulgent! Thank you for all the background information of the history of Emirates, very interesting! 🩳🩴🥃

[realmanft]

I flew Swiss F from DXB to MCT after a 3 day stopover in Dubai. I was escorted from the lounge to the gate, had 3 glasses of champagne pre flight, a one tray shrimp salad with an amuse bouche to start and a lemon and passion fruit cheesecake and sorbet. I had a glass of white wine with dinner and a gin and tonic and baileys coffee in a similar flight. One of the best things was as my bag was loaded in Dubai as one of the last on it was one of the first off in Muscat and my Dubai entry stamp meant I didn’t have to queue or pay for an Omani visa on arrival and I was kerbside in. 9 minutes.

[emercycrite]

Proof that the hard product only goes so far - and can easily be let down by the soft product

[stevene]

As you’ve said, for a 45minute flight it really is extraordinary what they offer - only Oman Air seems to compare and less 80’s bling, hopefully you won’t be allocated the middle seat in the next video - I was given it once and I said I won’t be travelling tonight can you please get my bags off the aircraft- somehow a window seat became available 😮- nice video as always

[JordCA]

Great video. Muscat is a must-visit.

[juliedahl]

Love your work Kevin. We are enjoying a stay at the Ritz Carlton, Bali. It is wonderful, and your video really prepared us!

[francoisbouchard]

this one was hilarious! Loved it. Pricey whiskey in a paper cup -- now that's my kind of luxury experience 🙂