Luxembourg-Tokyo, Japan

Back in a familiar place… the airport. It’s a cloudy, cool day, but the planes should be on time. Today I am off to Tokyo via Frankfort. I will meet up with Luca, the journalist from Euronews at Narita, the airport in Tokyo tomorrow morning at around 7:30 Tokyo time. We are working for a report called Musica and will be filming the Royal Opera House as they perform La Traviata in Yokohama. It should be interesting. We can’t film the performance, but will film the repetition beforehand. We will work with two cameras, having hired a Japanese crew as well.

One of the best things about being a cameraman is that you are always doing and learning new things. Yesterday, I filmed for the local Luxembourg TV in the north of the country. An association there won two prizes for their hiking trails and organisation. You can go there and they will lend you all the gear you need, boots, pants, jacket, backpack, everything ! And for free ! And the area is very beautiful. I’ll have to go back for a hike !

The double decker A-380.

Frankfort Airport:  Still very difficult to make a Frankfort airport employee smile. Even my excitement about flying on the new A-380 only managed a quiver at the corners of the employee's closed mouth.

But the most important is that I get to fly on the A-380! An unexpected treat! With 526 seats, the boarding has to be organised and organised it is! There are three different corridors to reach the huge plane. 72,5 m long, 24,06 m tall and 79,75 m wingspan. There are 8 first class seats, 98 business and 420 economy seats where I am at 54A near the nose! Talking to two stewardesses, they said working on the A-380 was easier in that there is more cabin crew (21) and it is larger, easier to get around. Even in economy, the seats had good legroom and the windows are much larger than in other planes. And the individual video screens are wide-screen! It was a smooth flight and a pretty good landing to arrive in style in Tokyo!