โ๏ธ 2024-03-18 (2)
๐บ๐ธ Yayyy, boarding!
My parents tell me that as a child, Iโve used prestige class, several times. But I have no memory of those times. Likely, I will also forget what it was like this time. Which is fine. No need to remember things to experience them.
๐ฐ๐ท ์ฐ์ ๋นํ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค!
์๋น ๋ง๋ก๋ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง์์ ๋ช ๋ฒ ํ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ๋ช ๋ฒ์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์๋ค. ์๋ง ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ด๋ ๋์ง๋ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์๊ด์๋ค. ๊ฒฝํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ํ ํ์๋ ์๋ค.
๐บ๐ธ I was on the Airbus A380-800, which has the Prestige Sleeper seat. (I heard there are three other types of prestige class seats at Korean Air.)
A380 has a 2 - 2 - 2 format for prestige class. I sat in 15D. D is the left seat of the middle two. (The seats go AB - DE - GH.)
Prestige Sleeper doesnโt have near-100% privacy. The seat sepator between the seats only goes up halfway. However, the seats do lie flat 180 degrees. Meaning, you can actually sleep. You can side-sleep too!
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ด๊ฐ ํ ๊ฑด ์์ด๋ฒ์ค A380-800๋ก, ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง ์ฌ๋ฆฌํผ ์ข์์ด ์์๋ค. (๋ํํญ๊ณต์๋ ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง ํด๋์ค ์ข์์ด ์ธ ์ข ๋ฅ ๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ค์๋ค.)
A380์ ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง ํด๋์ค ์ข์์ 2 - 2 - 2 ํฌ๋งท์ด๋ค. ๋๋ 15D์ ์์๋ค. ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ๋ ์ข์ ์ค ์ข์ธก์ด๋ค. (์ข์์ AB - DE - GH๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฐ๋ค.)
ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง ์ฌ๋ฆฌํผ๋ 100%์ ๊ฐ๊น๊ฒ ํ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋ณดํธํด์ฃผ์ง ์๋๋ค. ์ข์ ์ฌ์ด์ ์นธ๋ง์ด๋ ๋ฐ์ฏค๋ง ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ข์์ 180๋ ํผ์น ์ ์๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ง์ง๋ก๋ค๊ฐ ์ ์ ์ ์ ์๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ๋์์ ์ ์๋ ์๋ค!
๐บ๐ธ Muuuuuch space. Sooo far away from the screen. Good for the eyes. Better than at home.
And the noise cancelling headphones they gave me actually cancelled noise. Hehehe.
๐ฐ๐ท ์๋ฆฌ ์๋ง์. ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ์์ ์ ์ด์ด์ด์๋ง ๋ฉ๋ค. ๋์ ์ข๊ตฌ๋. ์ง์์๋ณด๋ค ๋ซ๊ตฌ๋.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ ๋ ธ์ด์ฆ ์บ์ฌ๋ง ํค๋ํฐ์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ ธ์ด์ฆ๋ฅผ ์บ์ฌํด์คฌ๋ค. ํํํ.
๐บ๐ธ While I was taking these pictures of the menu, I didnโt know how handy they were going to be later. THE most important thing during the flight was to KNOW the menu! Hahaha. And sometimes, the main lights of the cabin were turned off, so, having the photos on my phone instead of needing to turn on my reading light and then reach for the menu next to the screenโwhich isโฆ is so far awayโฆโwas really convenient.
LEARN YOUR MENU! Because, they keep bringing you food and drinks during almost half of the entire 13-hour flight. (The other half was quiet time for sleeping. But you could still keep putting stuff in your stomach during that time, if you wanted to.)
๐ฐ๐ท ์ด ๋ฉ๋ด ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ์ ๋๋ ์ด๊ฒ ๋์ค์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์๊ธดํ๊ฒ ์ฐ์ผ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๋์๋ค. ๋นํ ์ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์บ๋น์ ๋ฉ์ธ ๋ผ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๊บผ์ ธ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ๋ฆฌ๋ฉ ๋ผ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ผ๊ณ ๋ ์์ด ๋ฟ์ง๋ ์๋ ์์ฒญ ๋จผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์ก๋๋ผ ๋ฐ๋ฒ๋ฅ์น๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํฐ์ ์๋ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ํจ์ฌ ํธ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์์งํ๋ผ!!!!!! ์๋ํ๋ฉด, ์๊พธ๋ง ์์๊ณผ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ค ์ค๋ค. ๋นํ์ด 13์๊ฐ์ด์๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ค ๊ฑฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์๊ฐ ๋์ ๊ณ์ ๊ถํด์ค๋ค. (๋๋จธ์ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ทจ์นจ์ ์ํ ์ ์ ์๊ฐ์ด์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋์กฐ์ฐจ, ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ญ๊ฐ ์ง์ด๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ฉด ๊ณ์ ์ง์ด๋ฃ์ ์ ์์.)
๐บ๐ธ Left: The back of the front personโs seat, still very very far away.
Right: my shoes and my neighborโs shoes. She was a very quiet Korean and/or American woman. Probably around my age, plus/minus 10 years. She drank lots of coke and tea, watching cute animation movies. Meanwhile, I drank wine and juice, watching stuff with blood.
๐ฐ๐ท ์ผ์ชฝ: ์์ข์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ๋จธ๋๋จผ ๊ณณ์.
์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ: ๋ด ์ ๋ฐ๊ณผ ์์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ฐ. ๋งค์ฐ ์กฐ์ฉํ ํ๊ตญ์ธ ํน์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ํน์ ํ๊ตญ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ฌ์์๋ค. ์๋ง ๋์ ๋์ด๊ฐ ๋น์ทํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. (์์๋๋ก 10๋ ์ ๋ ์ฐจ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅ.) ์ฝ๋ผ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋ง์๊ณ , ๊ท์ฌ์ด ์ ๋๋ฉ์ด์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์๋ค. ํํธ ๋๋ ์์ธ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง์๊ณ , ํผ๊ฐ ํ๋ฅด๋ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ดค๋ค.
๐บ๐ธ Much convenience: the lifeline, creams to combat in-flight dry skin, and the magic seat operator.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋งค์ฐ ํธ๋ฆฌ: ์๋ช ์ค, ๋นํ ์ค ๊ฑด์กฐํ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ธฐ ์ํ ํฌ๋ฆผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง๋ฒ์ ์ข์ ์กฐ์ข ๊ธฐ.
๐บ๐ธ Friggin freakish. Why Korean Air uses ugly AI characters for announcements is beyond me. Uncanny valley much.
๐ฐ๐ท ์๋ฆ ๋์. ๋ํํญ๊ณต์ ์ ๋ชป์๊ธด AI ์บ๋ฆญํฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ด๋ฐฉ์ก์ ์ฐ๋๊ฐ! ์ธ์บ๋ ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ ์์ฒด์๋ค.
๐บ๐ธ First meal. These photos are unedited, so this is close to what the food actually looked like. The scallop, on the very left, was delicious. I first asked for red wine, because I hadnโt studied the menu. Silly me. Duh. Knowing the menu is absolutely critical!!!!!!
Anyway, I later asked for a glass of champagne. The champagne went well with the scallop & salad.
Oh and they let you taste the wine before choosing. Not that you couldnโt just get multiple glasses of many things at once. You can. Also, they keep bringing the drink cart every time the next course is served. So if you drink up before the end of the meal, donโt you worry!
The steak was so-so. It was cooked medium to medium-rare. They didnโt ask how I wanted it to be cooked but it was how I usually eat it anyway. If you have a different preference, you may need to ask them if itโs possible at all to cook meat that way. (Is it possible to cook rare or well-done? If possible, is it done? Maybe airspace food safety rules are different from ground level ones.)
I couldnโt finish all the food I was given. There was just so much food. I felt quite mediocre. Itโs damn annoying that I canโt eat that much food. Itโs not like I have a flat tummy. If Iโm gonna have a not-insubstancial belly, then why canโt I have the ability to eat much much a lot?
๐ฐ๐ท ์ฒซ๋ผ. ์ด ์ฌ์ง๋ค์ ์์ ํ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฏ๋ก, ์ค์ ์์์ ๋ชจ์๊ณผ ํก์ฌํ๋ค. ๋งจ ์ผ์ชฝ์ ๊ด์๊ฐ ํน ๋ง์ก์. ๋ ์ฒ์์ ๋ ๋์์ธ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ๋ฉ.๋ด.๋ฅผ. ์.์ง.ํ.์ง. ์.์.์ผ.๋.๊น. ๋ฉ์ถฉํ๋ค. ์ฐธ ๋ ์. ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋งํผ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฑฐ๋!!!
์๋ฌดํผ, ๋์ค์ ๊ฐ์ ์ดํ์ธ์ ํ ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๊ด์ & ์๋ฌ๋๋ ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆผ.
์์ธ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์ ์ ํ ์ด์คํ ํ๊ฒ ํด์ค๋ค. ์ฌ์ค ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ๋๊ธด ํ๋์ง๋ผ ํ ์ด์คํ ์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ถ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฝ์ค๊ฐ ํ๋ ๋์ฌ ๋๋ง๋ค ์๋ฃ ์นดํธ๊ฐ ๋ ์จ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ค ๋๋๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ค ๋ง์ ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์๋ผ!
์คํ ์ดํฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค. ๋ฏธ๋์์์ ๋ฏธ๋์๋ ์ด ์ ๋๋ก ์๋ฆฌ๋์ด ์์๋ค. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๋ฆฌํด์ค์ง ๋ํํ ๋ฌป์ง๋ ์์๋๋ฐ, ๋๋ ๋ง์นจ ์๋ ๊ทธ ์ ๋๋ก ์ตํ ๋จน๋๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ๊ทธ๋์ ์ทจํฅ์ด ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ ์ทจํฅ์ ๋ง๊ฒ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์๋ฆฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง ํ์ธํด๋ด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. (๋ ์ด ํน์ ์ฐ๋์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌํ ์ ์๋๊ฐ? ํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋๊ฐ? ๊ณต์ค์์์ ์์ ์์ ๊ท์น์ ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ง์์์์ ๊ฒ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅผ์ง๋.)
๋์๊ฒ ์ฃผ์ด์ง ์์์ ๋ค ๋จน์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฅโฆ ๋๋ฌด ์์์ด ๋ง์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์๋นํ ํ์ฐฎ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๋ ์ฌํ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋๋ฉด์ ๋ณ๋ก ์์์ ๋ง์ด ๋ชป ๋จน๋๋ค๋, ๋ฏธ์น๊ฒ ๋ค. ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ์ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ์ด ๋๋ฌดํ ๋ฑ์ด์ ์ง๋ ๋๋ ์ด์งธ์ ์ํน ๋ง์ด ๋จน์ง ๋ชปํ๋๊ฐ?
๐บ๐ธ Ramen, which you can ask for during snack time. (Itโs from cup noodles. But they put extra ingredients in there as well. And I liked the radish banchanโthe white small dish next to the water glass.)
I felt like my schedule was so full! During the 13-hour flight, I spent
- 3 hours eating
- 4 hours writing
- 4 hours sleeping
- 1 hour going to the restroomโlots of brushing teeth and walking around getting to the farthest restrooms on either end of the passenger area. The whole floor is prestige class. You wonโt get cut off by an annoying curtain that stops you from getting close to first class hahaha You can go to whichever restroom you want, on this floor. Itโs nice exercise.
- 1 hour for misc in-between stuff.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ผ๋ฉด. ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ค๋ค. (์ปต๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ. ํ์ง๋ง ์ถ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ์ด์ค. ํ์ ๋จ๋ฌด์ง ๋ฐ์ฐฌ์ด ๋ง์์๋ค.)
ํ์ฌ๊ฐ์ ์ค์ผ์ค์ด ์์ฒญ ๊ฝ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค. 13์๊ฐ ๋นํ ๋์
- 3์๊ฐ์ ๋จน๋ ๋ฐ
- 4์๊ฐ์ ๊ธ ์ฐ๋ ๋ฐ
- 4์๊ฐ์ ์๋ ๋ฐ
- 1์๊ฐ์ ํ์ฅ์ค ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ (์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ๋ฆ์ ๋ฐ๋ค๊ฐ, ์น๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ญ ์์ชฝ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ ํ์ฅ์ค๋ค๊น์ง ๊ฑธ์ด๋ค๋ ๋ค. ์ธต ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ํ๋ ์คํฐ์ง์์ด๋ค. ํผ์คํธ ํด๋์ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ค๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ๊ท์ฐฎ์ ์ปคํผ์ ๋นํ์ง ์์๋ ๋๋ค! ํํํ ์ด ์ธต์ ์๋ฌด ํ์ฅ์ค์๋ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋๋ ๋๋ค.)
- 1์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ด์ฌ์ด์ ๋จ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ค.
๐บ๐ธ Second meal. The triangle-shaped bread tasted spicy. I liked it and ate two of those.
The main menu to the right was chicken. Initially, I asked for seafood. But 10 minutes later, the flight attendants went around asking the seafood choosers if they were willing to switch to something else, because so many people chose seafood and they ran out of seafood.
For a brief moment, I considered pretending to sleep to avoid being asked if I was willing to change to something other than seafood. LOLโฆ But in the end, I was too unmotivated to actively pretend. A flight attendant came and asked me. I said yes, Iโll switch to something else. I mean, I donโt know. I couldโve said that I absolutely must eat seafood, but I didnโt feel like saying so.
So, instead, I got the chicken. Turns out, I liked the chicken. I finished everything on the plate. Meanwhile, all the people around me who refused to give up seafood didnโt finish their seafood. Ha! I am inclined to believe that the seafood wasnโt very good!
Still, on my return flight, I shall attempt to stick to seafood. If they ask me again to change from seafood to something else, Iโll tell them I was on a Korean Air flight on 3/18-3/19 and on that flight, I already gave someone else my seafood, so this time Iโm gonna get my seafood.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์์ฌ. ์ธ๋ชจ ๋ชจ์์ ๋นต์ด ๋งค์ ๋ค. ๋ง์ก๋ค. ๋ ๊ฐ ๋จน์๋ค.
์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์ ๋ฉ์ธ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ ์นํจ์ด์๋ค. ์ฒ์์ ๋๋ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ 10๋ถ ํ, ์น๋ฌด์๋ค์ด ๋์๋ค๋๋ฉด์ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ ์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ํฅ์ด ์๋๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ํํ๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ด ๋์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
์งง์ ์๊ฐ ๋์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ ์๋ ์ฒ์ ํด์ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑธ ๋จน๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํผํ ๊น? ใ ใ ใ ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฅ๋์ ์ธ ์ฒ์ ํ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ถ์กฑํ๊ณ โฆ ์น๋ฌด์ ํ๋๊ฐ ์์ ๋์๊ฒ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋์ก๊ณ โฆ ๋๋ ์ข์, ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ฒ ์, ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์๋ ๋จธโฆ ๊ธ์โฆ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋จน์ด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ํ ์๋ ์์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๋ณ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋์ ์นํจ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ฝค ๋ง์ด ์ข๋ค? ์น์น ๊ธ์ด๋จน์๋ค. ํํธ ๋ด ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๊ณ ์ํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ ๋ถ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค. ํฅ! ์๋ง ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ณ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ง์ง ์๋ณด๋ ๋ณด์ง!
ํ์ง๋ง ์ง์ ๋์์ค๋ ๋นํ ๋๋ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๊ณ ์ํ๋ ค ํด๋ณด๊ฒ ๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ๋ ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑธ๋ก ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค๋ฉด, 3/18-3/19์๋ ๋ํํญ๊ณต์ ํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐํํ ๋ด ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ์คฌ์ผ๋ ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋ด ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ฒ ๋ค.
๐บ๐ธ Many Korean Air planes!
I drank:
- 1 glass of champagne
- 1 glass of white wine (the Autrian one on the menu. This one was my favorite.)
- 1 glass of red wine
- 2 glasses of guava juice
- 1 glass of orange guice
- 1 bottle of water
- 2 additional glasses of water.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ํํญ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์ค์ค์ด!
๋ง์ ๊ฒ:
- ์ดํ์ธ 1์
- ํ์ดํธ ์์ธ 1์ (๋ฉ๋ด์ ์๋ ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์์ฐ. ์ ์ผ ๋ง์ก๋ค.)
- ๋ ๋ ์์ธ 1์
- ๊ตฌ์๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ค 2์
- ์ค๋ ์ง ์ฃผ์ค 1์
- ์์ 1๋ณ
- ๋ฌผ 2์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก.