What happened to the Myanmar airlines video from last week. I swear I saw it for a few minutes in the morning then later when I went to view it, it was gone .
I understand your frustration Josh, but after living in Indonesia I know that this is part of the culture. When something is wrong or can't be delivered, like not understanding your food order, it is viewed as shameful and therefore people tend to hide instead of showing their failure.
If you have had food poisoning the best thing you can do is drink plenty of water . You need to flush it all out of your system. Avoid eating anything for 24 hours.
I used to work for airlines for twenty years as a ground handling employee. This during the golden age of aviation. I saw many thinks during my career. But never such behaviour and incompetence. The poor guy at the check in was really embarrassed because of the fear of the hierarchy.
The experience from my own travelling is that in developing countries hotels of western standards can be quite expensive while normally the hotels of local standard are often really cheap.
The biggest flop is that you don't get the currency exchange discount. Because they use USD. So people who earn in a weaker currency than USD will easily feel broke.
Yes, that is very expensive. They have to compete with Bali but with those costs they are going to miss out on a lot of customers. The tourism industry is very lucrative so they really need to pick up their game.
As far as I know, the "Prayer Card" is available as standard in all Indonesia Airline. And i think because Aero Dili only serve Bali - Dili at the moment, they include that too.
Timor L’Este does actually have another bigger and more modern airport, opened in 2019. 'Oecusse Route of the Sandalwood International Airport' OEC It meets international safety standards and even has aero bridges. Unfortunately it has never served any scheduled international flights. This is because it is located in an exclave (Oceusse) surrounded by West Timor Indonesia with not much else there. Going to Dili by road requires entering and exiting Indonesia immigration and a 200km journey. At one time there were infrequent flights to Dili but these appear to be suspended.
@@KumarNikhils corruption. In the 2000s, Spain had a similar issue, with officials building numerous airports, that have never been used, or used for maybe a year before no more airline services.
@SandmanTH, first, a tip: no apostrophe. No article with an "L" exists in Portuguese, and that's not the reason for that letter there, as would have been the case in French or Italian. "Leste" is the Portuguese word for "east", and the "L" is part of the word. Now, there is also an airport in Baucau, in mainland Timor-Leste, with a much longer runway and better approach conditions than the airport in Díli. It's a former Portuguese airbase that was also Timor-Leste's main civilian airport in colonial times. Unfortunately, it was abandoned during the Indonesian occupation and is now derelict and in disrepair. It is also over 100 km from Díli by road and no one wants such a long ride to or from the airport. Still, sooner or later Timor-Leste will have to solve the airport problem, which is becoming a bottleneck to the nation's development, and then renovating Baucau might be considered an option.
@@dacosguterres5864, "to archive"? As in archiving the project in a file cabinet, forgetting it, and never executing it? I don't understand what you mean. Talvez seja melhor em português. Sou brasileiro, é a minha língua também.
@dacosguterres5864 the airport at Oecusse has a longer runway than any other operational airport in East Timor, even longer than Dili airport, which can take larger carriers.
I recently found out that Euroatlantic Airways, a Portuguese charter airline (that also has regular flights to Bissau and Sao Tome) flew to Dili with their 767s via dubai between August 2020 and September 2021.
I had food poisoning whilst transiting through Turkey last year - just as I left my hotel for the airport.. It was the most horrendous experience of my life. I feel for you Josh
Least you weren’t the poor guy that got diarrhoea on a plane and didn’t make it to the toilet on time and the plane had to divert back to the airport as a biohazard! Also hope the pilots got given 2 different meals, given that there was only one option.
Got it in Mexico when I stupidly ate a road taco on the way to Chichen Itza. Oh man, did I regret it. I shat myself inside out and ate Imodium like tic-tacs. At least it was after the scuba diving at Cozumel was over, I cannot imagine the horror of having to shit in a wetsuit at 75ft under water.
I got food poisoning from strawberries bought at a market stall in BKK (I washed them with bottled water before eating of course, but obviously it didn`t help). The flight from BKK to FRA on LH was the worst experience I´ve ever had. Spent most of the flight at the toilet.....
I had food poisoning after eating at the food court of Siam Paragon in BKK. Lots and lots of people (on a Saturday), so the food would be good? I'd spend the whole night on the toilet and scatted in bed when I thought it was a bit better ... 1000THB deposit down the drain! Don't get me started about the ride in the taxi bacj to Chonburi! I ate TWO boxes of UltraCarbon X in just three days!... Bought four, so took half a box for the flight back to home ... Sh*t Adventure! 😅
I think the guy was suffering from food poisoning which explains why he was late and then spent a long time in the toilet when he arrived to work. He should have apologized first and excused himself saying he was very sick, and most customers are very forgiving. But if you don't do that then the customer is made to believe that you do not value their time. It is important to speak up. However I could be wrong, and he may just needs to be retrained.
It 'might' not have been the food, for a number of years I used to get bad stomach 'bugs' at my workplace. I found that when I stopped touching door handles, especially the 'rest room' door handle I no longer had any problems. So you could have just been unlucky picking up a bug from someone or a surface...Immodium, never leave home without it!!!
I had food poisoning in Miami. Cramps diarrhea vomiting I saw stars and fainted. When I came to my senses I was on the marble floor. It was the most horrible experience I had in a foreign country..
Josh tearing into the Dili Air manager about being late for work was the most german thing I've seen in a while. And before anyone gets mad: I'm german, I simply admire the balls of him going off on an airline official in a foreign country like that. Good on you, Mr. Josh - preussisch wie eine Pickelhaube ;-)
it seems that Josh was, for some reason, singled out during check in? however it made me feel quite uncomfortable when Josh aggressively tore into the station manager about being late for duty.
As an American who has seen plenty of very rude America's who act just like this at home and abroad, what he did was horrible and he should be ashamed. You do not go into another country and carry your toughness or rudeness with you. He is lucky they allowed him to fly. Even in USA airports he may have been canceled.
I am sorry you became ill during your trip Josh. East Timor is very beautiful and the people Are very friendly as you highlighted in video. Aero Dilli needs to improve the training of their customer service staff to be able to better serve their customers. The terminal building needs improvements, the runway at Dilli should be lengthened to accommodate a wider variety of aircraft types to operate in and out the airport.
Food poisoning is the worst but you were just vomiting, that’s not severe! Severe is both ends at the same time and fainting on the bathroom floor and waking up and wondering where you are😳😂
I’ve been there and OMG it was the worst! I got dysentery on a cruise to Bermuda many years ago and the ship’s Dr was considering getting me a helicopter back to FL. Life was HELL.
We are flying from Bali to Dili, January 12. I wanted to try Aero Dili, but they don't sel anny tickets after Desember 31, so we are Flying Citylink. We are staying 4 nights in Dili. The flight ticket is around $300 each way. I will probably stay at some more backpacker-ish place. After Kuwait it will be the most expensive country on our 33 day South-East Asia roundtrip visiting. Wisiting 12 Citys in 8 countrys flying 14 flights with 11 different airlines.
Fun & fact : The flight attendant and pilot on the plane were Indonesian, the plane was on loan from the UAE. The cost to get there is very expensive, we Indonesians are better off visiting Bali or Japan/Korea with the same price and many tourist destinations
When I visited east timor back in 2018 I got quite sick on the last day of my visa and i needed to take a minibus to Kupang on the indonesian side of the island. 15 hours of pain in a bumpy minibus will always stay in my memory and i definitely could sympathize with what you went through 😂
@@mcbchannel7173 roads were better lol. Personally i found it more interesting in east timor regardless of my sickness at the end. But there was nice things to see on indonesian side as well especially in nearly islands
I know it sounds crazy and it might just be some weird, consistent coincidence, but for whatever reason when I was younger and in my 20s, I sometimes would have stomach and digestion problems and eating at Burger King would actually help me. I had problems for weeks and then, after I ate at Burger King, it suddenly got better and that happened 3 or 4 times in a row and eventually I noticed the pattern. I know how weird that is and it might just have been a big coincidence that happened several times, but it definitely was happening. It changed though. Now it doesn't work anymore. Probably because all the Burger King restaurants in my area are owned and run by Arabs now and are really filthy and the food is disgusting.
@@sisgp123 I don't even really have a kitchen at my disposal where I could comfortably make my own sandwiches. No, I'm not homeless, but it is a long story I won't bore you with.
The check in confusion where they ask for a visa when its not required is not surprising in Indonesia. I had the same issue a few years back flying out to Thailand from Bali. I have a Portuguese passport but was born in India, so looking at my place of birth they asked me for a Visa. I said Portuguese citizens don't need a visa for Thailand and their reply was "you were born in India" and Indian citizens require a visa for Thailand 😂 It took them about an hour to call their manager who then came and made a number of calls to confirm i didn't need a visa to Thailand. I got through at the end.
Hi Josh ! I'm not trying to undermine the possibility of the airline food as the cause of your food poisoning. However since you were just in Bali, if you happened to consume any of the pork dishes there like babi guling or others, it might also be the big possible cause for your poisoning as several of my friends who recently traveled there got food poisoning and we as local visitors really hope the regional government can tackle this issue soon. Stay safe !
Some of my local friend that living in East Nusa Tenggara said Timor's people prefer to travel from Kupang, because it's cheaper than having a one way flight with aero dili, almost half the price, and Kupang airport has various airline and schedule selection. To cross the border, in Kupang's airport there's a bus service that has cross-border route direct to Dili.
I’m going back to 1980, but half the people on my Laker Airways flight from LPA-LGW (including 2 cabin crew) had food poisoning from the disgusting meal they served. As the flight is only 4hrs it must’ve been very fast acting! We all got letters about what to do if feeling unwell and there was a fleet of ambulances at the bottom of the stairs! We were parked at a remote stand so that nobody in terminal could see all the attention we were getting! Thankfully I wasn’t keen on what they were serving, so glad I passed the meal!
@@dika1036 Late/Hiding/Asking parking guys for bribes/coffee money - All of these would be typical explanations for lackadaisical Indonesian managers. They don't show their face unless it's a photo op for their whatsapp groupchat, or someone assertive enough isn't going to accept their bullsh1t. (Such as Josh in this video)
Aero Dili usually has quite rare schedules and only around 3 times a week. If you want cheaper, better service and lots of schedules, usually use Citilink. But you have to transit in Bali. You can also land directly from Kupang, West Timor.
Looked like a good flight. That agent or station manager may have been looking for a bribe, and when they realized they weren't getting one from you, backed down.
As a former Environmental Health Inspector overseeing restaurants and take-away food establishments for health and hygiene compliance, the ever-mounting instances of food poisoning were commonly found to be from batch cooking of rice. The spores that create the toxins which in turn become responsible for food poisoning can grow rapidly on account of the size of each grain of rice. The surface area of just one portion of contaminated rice can exceed the size of a couple of steaks. Personally, I steer well clear of reheated rice. Always.
I have had food poisoning a couple of times, once while staying in a cave hotel in Turkey, it was one of the most miserable nights of my life. The good news was the toilet was in the shower. My life lesson from that experience was to always carry Imodium.🤢🤮
When I lived in Timor, back in 2004~2005, after my first meal in the country I had a severe food poisoning that led me to ICU for 2 days. The last thing I remember was entering the UN hospital, filling a brief paperwork, seating on a bench and a few minutes later I was on the floor. All the locals were screaming "Malay! Malay! Malay!" to get the attention of the hospital staff that the "foreigner" was unresponsive... I guess that the first "gift" some people will get in a new country is a bad food poisoning 🙂 PS: That was my first and only food poisoning in Timor. I lived there for almost three years without any other issue. PS2: Locals used to pay US$ 0.50 for a taxi trip, no matter how far. Foreign workers were charged US$ 1 - sometimes US$ 2. Only tourists would be charged US$ 10 for a trip. Yes, you are supporting the local economy, but it is terrible to be scammed this way.
I know it sounds crazy and it might just be some weird, consistent coincidence, but for whatever reason when I was younger and in my 20s, I sometimes would have stomach and digestion problems and eating at Burger King would actually help me. I had problems for weeks and then, after I ate at Burger King, it suddenly got better and that happened 3 or 4 times in a row and eventually I noticed the pattern. I know how weird that is and it might just have been a big coincidence that happened several times, but it definitely was happening. It changed though. Now it doesn't work anymore. Probably because all the Burger King restaurants in my area are owned and run by Arabs now and are really filthy and the food is disgusting.
Egypt, I was the first of the USA group to go down. At the end of the trip we all walked to McDonald's. That was the best hamburger 🍔 because it was the first solid food I'd had, all four bites…at least with chain fast-food you kind of know what you are getting.
Crazy to see they got Lurpak butter there. As a Dane I’m always surprised to see how some Danish products are sold all around the world given how small our country is. Price is insane though! I usually get it on sale for approx. $1.5-2 while the normal price is around $4 so for people to pay almost $13 in East Timor is insane not least compared to their comparatively lower income.
Reminds me of when I got food poisoning in Thailand. Holed up in a Bangkok hotel for 3 days before flying back to the UK. Collapsed at Don Muang check-in. Attended by a doctor and 3 lovely nurses. Given a intravenous drip and loads of tablets which enabled me to get home.
I would be pissed too, if I had to wait two hours for a problem that was not even mine! And here you have a person that lacks the customer skills required to know that he must immediately address any issues with the customer asap and not keep them waiting. Traveling is stressful enough as you are at the mercy of the airline. It was not like it was a cheap ticket either, with an Airline with a lot of customers. In the US, we are trained to drop everything we are doing and address the issues with the customer immediately. Josh said the manager came in and wondered around, going to the restroom for a while. I suspect he had food poisoning too, which is why he was also late. Most folk do not realize that if they immediately explain themselves with the reason for being late and apologize, most customers are very forgiving. Asians tend to be shy around foreigners and don't speak up. They really need to address the issue of food safety! I suspect the meats and dairy are not being stored at the right temperatures. They could kill someone and could get sued out of business. The elderly and children are very vulnerable. I hope they take this warning very seriously! Sometimes you are given one chance to rectify a urgent problem and if you fail to do so, you have only yourself to blame.
@@Dan-xx5jq, sued out of business? How and where? In Timor-Leste? Of course the court would be rigged to protect the national airline (owned by one of the richest men in the country, from what I saw, and in such a small country, you can imagine his connections). Any resident would also be frightened to death of reprisal and persecution (of course, such a lawsuit would only be feasible for a local national or resident). In Indonesia? The country is infamous for its slow, corrupt, and confusing courts, and people are used to avoiding civil lawsuits at all costs because of the hassle, the expense, and the embarrassment of direct confrontation, which their culture tends to avoid (you saw an example of this in this video, with Josh's check-in experience). That's Southeast Asia, not California! Also, being such a small airline, with only one plane and one daily return flight, Aero Dili certainly doesn't have its own kitchen in Denpasar (or in Díli - Josh's dessert had a label saying "geleia", which means "jelly" in Portuguese, indicating that it came from Timor-Leste on the inbound flight to DPS) and buys its food from some local catering company, which has obviously been operating with impunity and no oversight, probably selling to other airlines, too.
@@mikehunt4986 The whole Karen thing just bothers me in general. I mean, for one, people literally ruined an entire name that a ton of people have. I don't, but I know a few Karen's who get constant jokes now. I've also seen multiple "Karen" videos where it's just women complaining about something they SHOULD be complaining about. But now any middle-aged white woman who tries to complain about literally anything have people calling them Karen's, trying to film them for social media, etc. And it bothers me that only really one race gets called Karen's. I personally never see anyone calling women of other races "Karens", or any other name at all honestly. It's just.. could we f'ing not do this kind of stuff? 🤦🏻♀ Making a whole group of people, mostly white women, not want to say anything to any manager even if it's justified because they don't want to be filmed or called names. Not to mention videos where "Karens get slapped!" and stuff. Encouraging violence against a whole race's gender is so WEIRD and terrible.
I'm so sorry that you had food poison because of the airline thanks for warning us about this. You definitely deserve a like for going through all this
Just some advice for the future, if you are recovering from food poisoning, even if you think you are starting to feel better, it is not good to eat fried food or food high in fat. I am sorry you got sick. I hope you are feeling better now.
I’ve eaten street food in Vietnam and thought I’d be wretchedly sick but luckily, I was fine and the food was SO good! Just keep to bottled water and near a toilet - and away from Burger King 😮! Great sights and view from the Jesus statue! Great review, Josh!
Hi Josh! I also got food poisoning on an Air Canada flight between Toronto and Frankfurt. It really flared up on the flight from Frankfurt and Cairo. I managed to “use” all the little bags in business class. Not funny at all!
Since Josh told a little about the history of Timor, the estatue that appears at 27:04 is a reproduction of a historical photo of the massacre that took place in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili on November 12, 1991 in the fight for independence
I am surprised that East Timor was able to gain independence against a large country like Indonesia. Goa, India was in a similar situation with 75% of the population being Catholic before 1961. It was futile attempt to even try to go against a powerful country like India and so they were swallowed up by the bigger country. They have since gone to less than 25% Catholic and the rest being Hindu as a lot of Indians have moved into Goa since and continue to do so. From recent press coverage the Christians do face communal animosity now, with the government of the current PM who is very much proHindu, and is against secularism. I would have expected to see a lot more Portuguese architecture in East Timor like they do in Goa. Goa has some magnificent churches that rival the ones in Europe that are 400 and 500+ years old. When India invaded in 1961, the Portuguese governor was given the order to destroy all the huge glamorous buildings the Portuguese built on his way out, but he refused the order and was jailed on his return. Goa was also considered a province of Portugal and not a colony, and when India invaded it did cause a stir as it meant India invaded a NATO country.
Right?? The only restaurant in North America I've ever gotten food poisoning from was Burger fuggin' King. Take a crap, don't wash up, start ripping up lettuce for the whoppers.....💀💀💀
Actually I would think the opposite. Burger King I assume would have the western standards for cleanliness with restaurants following extensive protocols for food safety and hygiene, as apposed to a local restaurant. It is a shame he was not able to sample the local cuisine. I always carry Imodium Ad, it is an anti diarrhea medicine when I travel. The last thing you need happen to you, is being told that you can't go to the toilet on a plane. Unfortunately it has happened a lot on flights and that is why Airline seats are some of the worst for hygiene as they don't do a deep cleaning, as they have to turn those planes around quick.
I don´t get the hate for BK as here in Helsinki it´s the only place I go for burgers. But it could be location specific. Haven´t tried them elsewhere. I just dont get any of the drowsiness eating all my stomach can handle from BG (double whopper meal for 10 euros) that I get from McD or other more local burger providers. Maybe its just a personal issue of what fits who. Who knows?
You know what I admire about you? You KNOW THE RULES! Nobody can come with stories. You educate those who should already know the rules but don’t . Imagine being schooled by a passenger as a manager. I would be embarrassed 😩😩
@@cjojay it sure does I was so sick and to top it off we had a connecting flight in Australia to reach our home. I was sick for 48hrs and had to go to the hospital and placed on a drip due to server dehydration I’m really picky when it comes to food on any flight now
@@cjojay It's usually *very* quick if you ingest poison that bacteria already produced. It needs (sometimes much) longer if you ingest the live bacteria or vira (viruses?) and they reproduce and produce poison inside the body and/or kill some of your cells. But even the latter can onset within an hour depending on where the damage occurs and the amount of infectious mass ingested.
Hi Josh, greetings from West Virginia in the USA! I had to pop in and say thank you for this channel, I really love travel/camping shows and came across a video of yours a few days ago and am absolutely hooked. Your content is so incredibly unique and riveting, I SO love that you travel 'off the beaten path' and I get to see other parts of this incredible world of ours. I am currently unable to travel or sometimes unable to walk due to lyme disease and the escape to places I will never see is a blessing. When I can I will Patreon! Drink lots of fluids, take care of yourself, you are very much needed.
Now that we are talking hygiene on aircraft I,d like to share a tip that I use . On flights that supply a hot towel and After I have used it to freshen up myself I wipe down all the hard surfaces such as armrests , touch screens , fold out tables and where supplied the controllers for the in flight entertainment . And you should see what comes off !!!! Yuck ! . Josh made a very good point on noting that most people were not eating on the flight , on these smaller airlines that gives you a great clue as to what the food is like and is exactly what I look for .
Hi Josh I would love for you to do a tour of New Zealand both north island and south via fiji again,loads of internal flight within New Zealand from Auckland to Christchurch,hokitika on west coast to queenstown and then a Antarctic adventure too,no one else has done it and would be great if you did do it before Noel does lol,great videos as always Josh
24:55 woops! You forgot to censor his face...that poor guy, wonder if he still keeps his job or just get reprimanded from this Btw my country Brunei will be launching its 2nd airline GallopAir next year, hoping to see your reviews on that soon? And speedy recovery Josh!
Great journey. Anyway, "DILI" means "craziness" or some similar in my language. Just a story: when I first flew back from India I was allowed to land in the business loo by the captain, saying 'just be very careful' 😀. And it wasn't because of the food served on KLM. Afterwards, I was on a sick leave for 3 days, making a lot of review of the loo of my house 😀😀
And this is why I travel with active charcoal tablets 😂 If you can keep them down they help. Also, some Vomistop after the initial purge is good as well. Never have I gotten sick from plane food though. 🤢
I had food poisoning from contaminated fish when I was pregnant and I was very ill. I had diarrhea and vomiting at the same time. I thought I was going to die. I was unable to eat anything for days and just drank flat ginger ale as advised. I wouldn't have eaten that Burger King Josh....especially if I had to fly. As it was I had a ship to catch as well as a train to my new home with my fiance, who also had food poisoning from the fish. Luckily we had recovered from the worst of it when we had to travel but we were still weak and fragile and needed to sleep a lot for the net few days.
Hi Josh. Sorry you got unwell but surely eating at the local BK when you were already in a bad way was a strange choice. Keep up your amazing content pal!
One of the rare episodes (in general) where traveling to a certain place was an uncomfortable experience all together. A rare find among YT travelers today. I click thumbs up
Most notorious food items for food items on a flight I avoid are uncooked items in tropical countries. Fruits and salads as well as items which are not properly heated. After one incident on a international flight, I learned the hard way..
That was a big airplane model you were carrying around. Sorry that you got sick! I had a similar experience on American Airlines business class last year. JFK-MXP…from the previous nights inflight dinner. Unfortunately it kicked in while on a regional train with no bathrooms…awful and embarrassing. Come to think of it, the only other time it happened was also with AA but from their Flagship lounge…LHR-ORD…from a small shrimp salad sandwich…that kicked in immediately…barely made it to the loo after take-off…but the FA saw me racing to the loo and had the door open…spent the flight on the floor in the loo (yes, gross), but the FA’s made a point to keep checking on me. The only other time it happened in air wasn’t the airline’s fault…Corsair … ORY-LAX many years ago in my backpacking days…the FA’s didn’t care at all. Ugh!
This is why I never EVER eat sea-bugs or anything related to them,. though I am sorry to hear of your experience with them. All it takes is one missed removal of the shit-sack on a shrimp and.....bam! parasites R u. 💀💩💩
Becareful how you talk to Indonesians, doesnt matter if theyre in the wrong, if you want to reprimand someone, especially as a foreigner, be polite and dont embarrass them. Indonesians have high threshold of patience, once you go over the threshold, there can be violence. And dont point fingers.
I got terrible food poisoning on a Hawaiian Airlines flight last year....for some reason my request for a vegetarian meal had gone astray and I wasn't happy.....then they told me they found something for me. It hit me shortly into the 10 hour flight. I'll never eat another meal on that airline again.
I’d think twice…I mean 100 times before I’d fly on an airline’s only craft. Too many cycles, like that inter-island one in Hawaii that made itself a convertible when a third of the cabin blew off. Too many landing and departures cracked the skin.
Too many cycles? So I guess just disregard every Southwest Airlines 737 that makes up to 10 cycles a day? It’s fine lol. That A320 probably only does 4-5 flights a day if that.
I’m a retired F/A here the USA 🇺🇸 so I decided to give your video a view. Very well done and you have just gained another subscriber 👍. I love anything travel related and I love to see the various aircraft. A prayer card in the seat back pocket does NOT instill great confidence for me!! 😬
A lot of people have told me to pre order a vegetarian meal in advanced on airlines. For one, the risk of food poisoning dramatically decreases but particularly in Asia some of the local vegetarian delicacies can be really good.
@@Arcanine1995yes, you definitely can. A lot comes with age, but most comes with experience. If something feels wrong, always speak up. If you know you’re right, don’t let up.
@@julienfroidevaux1143ethnicity/race has nothing to do with what happened here. It’s very easy to problem solve and assure your customer at the same time.
Had food poisoning and feel for you. Broth and lots of water. What a beautiful country. The views from the statute of Jesus were well worth the 600 steps. Thank you for introducing a new country to me. As always it wouldn't be Saturday without a Josh Cahill video. Safe travels and feel better soon.
While it is possible that the airline catering caused your food problem, it is far more likely that you ate something a day or two or even three days ago that was the culprit. Most, but not all, cases of food illnesses take a lot of time. Since you were in Indonesia before flying, I wouldn’t be to sure about the catering. I have heard coworkers complain about getting sick an hour after eating. I think the illness come from their own refrigerator. A few things can come on quickly but often they cause sever illness that affects many people. However, I am sorry that you have a problem!
It is very important they have impeccable service on their signature Airline if they want to draw customers to their Island. And safety should be at the top of the list, including food safety! I was not aware of the fact that lots of foreigners were chosing East Timor as a retirement expat home. The infrastructure is lacking especially if that is the only hotel with western amenities. It is important for Westerns to have more of a choice if there are to vacation there. For the elderly Western expats, medical is a huge factor. The streets did look clean. Thanks Josh, for the extra treat of sharing the sights of East Timor. It is rare you do that. I do like to know what the rest of the world is like especially unfamiliar locations.
I think the prayer card is the legacy of the Indonesian occupation. Until as late as I was a child, in the early 2010s, several Indonesian low-cost carriers still have such.
Something that i've caught my eye while doing a little research about that country is East Timor only has 2 airlines. Aero Dili and Air Timor. The only Aero Dili A320 is 15 years old. I feel so sorry that you have a food poisoned that day while you are in East Timor. As an Indonesian Avgeek, I have never visited that country and after watching this video, i think i won't visited that country because me and my family are a bit worried about visiting that place. The only countries that i've visited when i was a kid with my family was Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. Hopefully i can visited a new country in the near future.
What a stupid comment after what you Indonesians did to the people and country. I was there when the peace keepers moved in. I saw it first hand and you have the audacity to make a comment like that. The Indonesians and their brainwashed puppets committed the rape, murders, kidnappings and thefts. The East Timorese are so beautifully nice, kind and caring. They won't forget but they have forgiven.
@@dacosguterres5864poverty is when your country has the highest stunting rate and malnourished. Never beg to Indonesia? Say that to your government officials that always Come to Indonesia ask for free training and donations.
What a horrible experience 😮 not sure I would ever take that trip. also it seems to be very expensive for a very poor country from the airline ticket to everything else that you bought
I can understand the urge to eat something familiar and theoretically safe after being sick. Unfortunately for many, BK never goes down well and is always regretted. East Timor is not on my list of places to visit.
@Dreamweaver787 ? The most potent naturally occurring toxin is created by bacteria that live on meat. Veggies and fruit are your safest bet, because you can tell if they're still good or not.
Well, be careful with your vegetarian diet. Simple things such as lettuce, asparagus and mushrooms etc can be full of dangerous surprises. All food can be dangerous on an Airplane !
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What happened to your last video I saw it was posted and when I came back to watch it it’s gone
Get them told Josh😂😂😂
@@ClaiLou22 I think was spot-on
What happened to the Myanmar airlines video from last week. I swear I saw it for a few minutes in the morning then later when I went to view it, it was gone .
I understand your frustration Josh, but after living in Indonesia I know that this is part of the culture. When something is wrong or can't be delivered, like not understanding your food order, it is viewed as shameful and therefore people tend to hide instead of showing their failure.
If you have had food poisoning the best thing you can do is drink plenty of water . You need to flush it all out of your system. Avoid eating anything for 24 hours.
Yeah, that meal at Burger King did not help.
carbon tablets
Coca Cola ... And lots of it!!
Ginger Ale and toast or crackers are good for food poisoning
Yogurt
I used to work for airlines for twenty years as a ground handling employee. This during the golden age of aviation. I saw many thinks during my career. But never such behaviour and incompetence. The poor guy at the check in was really embarrassed because of the fear of the hierarchy.
One thing anyone going to East Timor should know - the coastal waters have crocodiles. Check with the locals before you go in.
$500 RT for a two-hour flight? Over $300 for the hotel? $10 for a magnet? I can see why East Timor doesn't get many tourists!
The experience from my own travelling is that in developing countries hotels of western standards can be quite expensive while normally the hotels of local standard are often really cheap.
especially when you can go a little bit to the west and you have bali.
TL is using USD, even a meal on the streetside could cost $3 at minimum.
The biggest flop is that you don't get the currency exchange discount. Because they use USD. So people who earn in a weaker currency than USD will easily feel broke.
Yes, that is very expensive. They have to compete with Bali but with those costs they are going to miss out on a lot of customers. The tourism industry is very lucrative so they really need to pick up their game.
As far as I know, the "Prayer Card" is available as standard in all Indonesia Airline. And i think because Aero Dili only serve Bali - Dili at the moment, they include that too.
Timor L’Este does actually have another bigger and more modern airport, opened in 2019. 'Oecusse Route of the Sandalwood International Airport' OEC It meets international safety standards and even has aero bridges. Unfortunately it has never served any scheduled international flights. This is because it is located in an exclave (Oceusse) surrounded by West Timor Indonesia with not much else there. Going to Dili by road requires entering and exiting Indonesia immigration and a 200km journey. At one time there were infrequent flights to Dili but these appear to be suspended.
Why did they made international airport in that exclave.
@@KumarNikhils corruption. In the 2000s, Spain had a similar issue, with officials building numerous airports, that have never been used, or used for maybe a year before no more airline services.
@SandmanTH, first, a tip: no apostrophe. No article with an "L" exists in Portuguese, and that's not the reason for that letter there, as would have been the case in French or Italian. "Leste" is the Portuguese word for "east", and the "L" is part of the word.
Now, there is also an airport in Baucau, in mainland Timor-Leste, with a much longer runway and better approach conditions than the airport in Díli. It's a former Portuguese airbase that was also Timor-Leste's main civilian airport in colonial times. Unfortunately, it was abandoned during the Indonesian occupation and is now derelict and in disrepair. It is also over 100 km from Díli by road and no one wants such a long ride to or from the airport.
Still, sooner or later Timor-Leste will have to solve the airport problem, which is becoming a bottleneck to the nation's development, and then renovating Baucau might be considered an option.
@@dacosguterres5864, "to archive"? As in archiving the project in a file cabinet, forgetting it, and never executing it? I don't understand what you mean. Talvez seja melhor em português. Sou brasileiro, é a minha língua também.
@dacosguterres5864 the airport at Oecusse has a longer runway than any other operational airport in East Timor, even longer than Dili airport, which can take larger carriers.
That’s the first time I’ve seen Josh really mad. Good for you man for standing up for yourself. Good job! Also food poisoning sucks 🎉❤
I recently found out that Euroatlantic Airways, a Portuguese charter airline (that also has regular flights to Bissau and Sao Tome) flew to Dili with their 767s via dubai between August 2020 and September 2021.
I had food poisoning whilst transiting through Turkey last year - just as I left my hotel for the airport.. It was the most horrendous experience of my life. I feel for you Josh
Least you weren’t the poor guy that got diarrhoea on a plane and didn’t make it to the toilet on time and the plane had to divert back to the airport as a biohazard! Also hope the pilots got given 2 different meals, given that there was only one option.
Got it in Mexico when I stupidly ate a road taco on the way to Chichen Itza. Oh man, did I regret it. I shat myself inside out and ate Imodium like tic-tacs. At least it was after the scuba diving at Cozumel was over, I cannot imagine the horror of having to shit in a wetsuit at 75ft under water.
I got it once from lounge food in Cairo Airport
I got food poisoning from strawberries bought at a market stall in BKK (I washed them with bottled water before eating of course, but obviously it didn`t help). The flight from BKK to FRA on LH was the worst experience I´ve ever had. Spent most of the flight at the toilet.....
I had food poisoning after eating at the food court of Siam Paragon in BKK. Lots and lots of people (on a Saturday), so the food would be good? I'd spend the whole night on the toilet and scatted in bed when I thought it was a bit better ... 1000THB deposit down the drain!
Don't get me started about the ride in the taxi bacj to Chonburi! I ate TWO boxes of UltraCarbon X in just three days!... Bought four, so took half a box for the flight back to home ... Sh*t Adventure! 😅
Something makes me think Josh intentionally didn't blur the guy all too well. Honestly, I don't mind, the airport needs a better employee anyways.
If you want to see his face, go to 24:55. He probably couldn't be bothered to blur his face out after all that! 😂
I feel confident that he will be the ex-employee in short order.
You’ve never done that job I take it. I have.
@@dinacox1971I wouldn’t be sure about that… just from my experience of living in Indonesia during 5 years
I think the guy was suffering from food poisoning which explains why he was late and then spent a long time in the toilet when he arrived to work. He should have apologized first and excused himself saying he was very sick, and most customers are very forgiving. But if you don't do that then the customer is made to believe that you do not value their time. It is important to speak up. However I could be wrong, and he may just needs to be retrained.
Thank you Josh for bringing these small countries to attention, hope the airline will improve their service and thrive on tourism. Love from 🇱🇰
>has severe food poisoning
>eats Burger King the next day
FUCKING LEGEND
You're basically eating a chemistry kit at BK so it probably sanitized his intestines ;)
That's better than having a tacobell after a severe food poisoning. That's also help you to get diarrhea.
@@rinduberhalu9897 Taco Bell wrecked me once. Never again :)
🤣
@@peterpain6625 well you know the mayo hasn't gone bad because they go through a gallon a day
It 'might' not have been the food, for a number of years I used to get bad stomach 'bugs' at my workplace. I found that when I stopped touching door handles, especially the 'rest room' door handle I no longer had any problems. So you could have just been unlucky picking up a bug from someone or a surface...Immodium, never leave home without it!!!
If others on the plane got sick, it was, indeed, food poisoning.
@@KarisPigNosewho said they got sick?
As a Timorese I'm really sorry for that🙏 but thank you for visiting our small County 🇹🇱❤️
I had food poisoning in Miami. Cramps diarrhea vomiting I saw stars and fainted. When I came to my senses I was on the marble floor. It was the most horrible experience I had in a foreign country..
Josh tearing into the Dili Air manager about being late for work was the most german thing I've seen in a while.
And before anyone gets mad: I'm german, I simply admire the balls of him going off on an airline official in a foreign country like that.
Good on you, Mr. Josh - preussisch wie eine Pickelhaube ;-)
it seems that Josh was, for some reason, singled out during check in?
however it made me feel quite uncomfortable when Josh aggressively tore into the station manager about being late for duty.
As an American who has seen plenty of very rude America's who act just like this at home and abroad, what he did was horrible and he should be ashamed. You do not go into another country and carry your toughness or rudeness with you. He is lucky they allowed him to fly. Even in USA airports he may have been canceled.
Agree. That was OTT travel rage, which is never acceptable.
I am sorry you became ill during your trip Josh.
East Timor is very beautiful and the people Are very friendly as you highlighted in video.
Aero Dilli needs to improve the training of their customer service staff to be able to better serve their customers. The terminal building needs improvements, the
runway at Dilli should be lengthened to accommodate a wider variety of aircraft types to operate in and out the airport.
😂 the question was, how they got the money to improve they quality service 😂?
As a Timores living in the UK, i understand the pain of going there and the prices of the flights. So sorry you have to go throught that!❤🇹🇱
Food poisoning is the worst but you were just vomiting, that’s not severe! Severe is both ends at the same time and fainting on the bathroom floor and waking up and wondering where you are😳😂
I’ve been there and OMG it was the worst! I got dysentery on a cruise to Bermuda many years ago and the ship’s Dr was considering getting me a helicopter back to FL. Life was HELL.
It's possible Josh spared us all the gory details.
We are flying from Bali to Dili, January 12. I wanted to try Aero Dili, but they don't sel anny tickets after Desember 31, so we are Flying Citylink. We are staying 4 nights in Dili. The flight ticket is around $300 each way. I will probably stay at some more backpacker-ish place. After Kuwait it will be the most expensive country on our 33 day South-East Asia roundtrip visiting. Wisiting 12 Citys in 8 countrys flying 14 flights with 11 different airlines.
Fun & fact : The flight attendant and pilot on the plane were Indonesian, the plane was on loan from the UAE.
The cost to get there is very expensive, we Indonesians are better off visiting Bali or Japan/Korea with the same price and many tourist destinations
If you are a Balenese Indonesian your 'visiting Bali' part gets even easier!!
When I visited east timor back in 2018 I got quite sick on the last day of my visa and i needed to take a minibus to Kupang on the indonesian side of the island. 15 hours of pain in a bumpy minibus will always stay in my memory and i definitely could sympathize with what you went through 😂
how’s your experience in the indonesian side? is it better than in the east timor side?
@@mcbchannel7173 roads were better lol. Personally i found it more interesting in east timor regardless of my sickness at the end. But there was nice things to see on indonesian side as well especially in nearly islands
Sounds terrible. East Timor is beginning to sound like the Food Poisoning Capital of the World.
Kupang is my city😂
Pushing Burger King into an upset tummy, probably not the best idea LOL.
I know it sounds crazy and it might just be some weird, consistent coincidence, but for whatever reason when I was younger and in my 20s, I sometimes would have stomach and digestion problems and eating at Burger King would actually help me. I had problems for weeks and then, after I ate at Burger King, it suddenly got better and that happened 3 or 4 times in a row and eventually I noticed the pattern.
I know how weird that is and it might just have been a big coincidence that happened several times, but it definitely was happening.
It changed though. Now it doesn't work anymore. Probably because all the Burger King restaurants in my area are owned and run by Arabs now and are really filthy and the food is disgusting.
@@TrangleC Funny story. They all closed down where I live and now I eat ZERO fast food and feel much better for it.
@@sisgp123 I can imagine that. Wish I would have that option.
@@TrangleC Supermarkets, sandwich boxes LOL
@@sisgp123 I don't even really have a kitchen at my disposal where I could comfortably make my own sandwiches. No, I'm not homeless, but it is a long story I won't bore you with.
The check in confusion where they ask for a visa when its not required is not surprising in Indonesia.
I had the same issue a few years back flying out to Thailand from Bali.
I have a Portuguese passport but was born in India, so looking at my place of birth they asked me for a Visa. I said Portuguese citizens don't need a visa for Thailand and their reply was "you were born in India" and Indian citizens require a visa for Thailand 😂
It took them about an hour to call their manager who then came and made a number of calls to confirm i didn't need a visa to Thailand.
I got through at the end.
Hi Josh ! I'm not trying to undermine the possibility of the airline food as the cause of your food poisoning. However since you were just in Bali, if you happened to consume any of the pork dishes there like babi guling or others, it might also be the big possible cause for your poisoning as several of my friends who recently traveled there got food poisoning and we as local visitors really hope the regional government can tackle this issue soon. Stay safe !
Some of my local friend that living in East Nusa Tenggara said Timor's people prefer to travel from Kupang, because it's cheaper than having a one way flight with aero dili, almost half the price, and Kupang airport has various airline and schedule selection. To cross the border, in Kupang's airport there's a bus service that has cross-border route direct to Dili.
Food poisoning and then going to the burger king next day. Brave move.
I’m going back to 1980, but half the people on my Laker Airways flight from LPA-LGW (including 2 cabin crew) had food poisoning from the disgusting meal they served. As the flight is only 4hrs it must’ve been very fast acting! We all got letters about what to do if feeling unwell and there was a fleet of ambulances at the bottom of the stairs!
We were parked at a remote stand so that nobody in terminal could see all the attention we were getting!
Thankfully I wasn’t keen on what they were serving, so glad I passed the meal!
What did you expect for 99pounds ?
The station manager rocking up hours late to work does not surprise me at all. Just another day in Indonesia.
Also, Dili looks quite nice. I loved the view from atop the hike.
I think he didn’t late. He is hidding
@@dika1036 Late/Hiding/Asking parking guys for bribes/coffee money - All of these would be typical explanations for lackadaisical Indonesian managers.
They don't show their face unless it's a photo op for their whatsapp groupchat, or someone assertive enough isn't going to accept their bullsh1t. (Such as Josh in this video)
Only an hour late? What's the problem? ;)
His face was blurred out in the main video but wasn’t in the summary at the end of the video so we could see our “hero” 😂
Aero Dili usually has quite rare schedules and only around 3 times a week.
If you want cheaper, better service and lots of schedules, usually use Citilink.
But you have to transit in Bali.
You can also land directly from Kupang, West Timor.
Looked like a good flight. That agent or station manager may have been looking for a bribe, and when they realized they weren't getting one from you, backed down.
As a former Environmental Health Inspector overseeing restaurants and take-away food establishments for health and hygiene compliance, the ever-mounting instances of food poisoning were commonly found to be from batch cooking of rice. The spores that create the toxins which in turn become responsible for food poisoning can grow rapidly on account of the size of each grain of rice. The surface area of just one portion of contaminated rice can exceed the size of a couple of steaks. Personally, I steer well clear of reheated rice. Always.
I have had food poisoning a couple of times, once while staying in a cave hotel in Turkey, it was one of the most miserable nights of my life. The good news was the toilet was in the shower. My life lesson from that experience was to always carry Imodium.🤢🤮
ALWAYS wash or sanitize your hands before eating!
It is actually mind blowing that most people can not do such simple steps in personal hygiene these days.
Crew uniform looks super smart and they also look friendly and helpful. Flight though did seem quite expensive!
CA is indonesian I think they from Bali
When I lived in Timor, back in 2004~2005, after my first meal in the country I had a severe food poisoning that led me to ICU for 2 days. The last thing I remember was entering the UN hospital, filling a brief paperwork, seating on a bench and a few minutes later I was on the floor. All the locals were screaming "Malay! Malay! Malay!" to get the attention of the hospital staff that the "foreigner" was unresponsive...
I guess that the first "gift" some people will get in a new country is a bad food poisoning 🙂
PS: That was my first and only food poisoning in Timor. I lived there for almost three years without any other issue.
PS2: Locals used to pay US$ 0.50 for a taxi trip, no matter how far. Foreign workers were charged US$ 1 - sometimes US$ 2. Only tourists would be charged US$ 10 for a trip. Yes, you are supporting the local economy, but it is terrible to be scammed this way.
dude who eats burger king during food poisening! lol
Wasn't a good idea at all... lesson learned
@@JoshCahill should have had some spicey hot soup. nevertheless i recomend your stamina going those stairs anyway :)
I know it sounds crazy and it might just be some weird, consistent coincidence, but for whatever reason when I was younger and in my 20s, I sometimes would have stomach and digestion problems and eating at Burger King would actually help me. I had problems for weeks and then, after I ate at Burger King, it suddenly got better and that happened 3 or 4 times in a row and eventually I noticed the pattern.
I know how weird that is and it might just have been a big coincidence that happened several times, but it definitely was happening.
It changed though. Now it doesn't work anymore. Probably because all the Burger King restaurants in my area are owned and run by Arabs now and are really filthy and the food is disgusting.
@@TrangleC you had a bacterial infection and the antibiotics in the meat cured you.
Egypt, I was the first of the USA group to go down. At the end of the trip we all walked to McDonald's. That was the best hamburger 🍔 because it was the first solid food I'd had, all four bites…at least with chain fast-food you kind of know what you are getting.
Crazy to see they got Lurpak butter there. As a Dane I’m always surprised to see how some Danish products are sold all around the world given how small our country is. Price is insane though! I usually get it on sale for approx. $1.5-2 while the normal price is around $4 so for people to pay almost $13 in East Timor is insane not least compared to their comparatively lower income.
Sorry about the Food. Sad to be ill while traveling. Safe Future Feasts, Josh 🙂
Reminds me of when I got food poisoning in Thailand. Holed up in a Bangkok hotel for 3 days before flying back to the UK. Collapsed at Don Muang check-in. Attended by a doctor and 3 lovely nurses. Given a intravenous drip and loads of tablets which enabled me to get home.
Josh went full Karen mode (02:00) like a boss. Take care & be safe in your travels!
So impressed with the dressing down he gave that manager
I would be pissed too, if I had to wait two hours for a problem that was not even mine! And here you have a person that lacks the customer skills required to know that he must immediately address any issues with the customer asap and not keep them waiting. Traveling is stressful enough as you are at the mercy of the airline. It was not like it was a cheap ticket either, with an Airline with a lot of customers. In the US, we are trained to drop everything we are doing and address the issues with the customer immediately. Josh said the manager came in and wondered around, going to the restroom for a while. I suspect he had food poisoning too, which is why he was also late. Most folk do not realize that if they immediately explain themselves with the reason for being late and apologize, most customers are very forgiving. Asians tend to be shy around foreigners and don't speak up. They really need to address the issue of food safety! I suspect the meats and dairy are not being stored at the right temperatures. They could kill someone and could get sued out of business. The elderly and children are very vulnerable. I hope they take this warning very seriously! Sometimes you are given one chance to rectify a urgent problem and if you fail to do so, you have only yourself to blame.
@@Dan-xx5jq, sued out of business? How and where? In Timor-Leste? Of course the court would be rigged to protect the national airline (owned by one of the richest men in the country, from what I saw, and in such a small country, you can imagine his connections). Any resident would also be frightened to death of reprisal and persecution (of course, such a lawsuit would only be feasible for a local national or resident). In Indonesia? The country is infamous for its slow, corrupt, and confusing courts, and people are used to avoiding civil lawsuits at all costs because of the hassle, the expense, and the embarrassment of direct confrontation, which their culture tends to avoid (you saw an example of this in this video, with Josh's check-in experience). That's Southeast Asia, not California!
Also, being such a small airline, with only one plane and one daily return flight, Aero Dili certainly doesn't have its own kitchen in Denpasar (or in Díli - Josh's dessert had a label saying "geleia", which means "jelly" in Portuguese, indicating that it came from Timor-Leste on the inbound flight to DPS) and buys its food from some local catering company, which has obviously been operating with impunity and no oversight, probably selling to other airlines, too.
@@mikehunt4986 couldn't agree more. What the hell is this coming to. Men are now convinced standing up for themselves is bad
@@mikehunt4986 The whole Karen thing just bothers me in general. I mean, for one, people literally ruined an entire name that a ton of people have. I don't, but I know a few Karen's who get constant jokes now. I've also seen multiple "Karen" videos where it's just women complaining about something they SHOULD be complaining about. But now any middle-aged white woman who tries to complain about literally anything have people calling them Karen's, trying to film them for social media, etc. And it bothers me that only really one race gets called Karen's. I personally never see anyone calling women of other races "Karens", or any other name at all honestly. It's just.. could we f'ing not do this kind of stuff? 🤦🏻♀ Making a whole group of people, mostly white women, not want to say anything to any manager even if it's justified because they don't want to be filmed or called names. Not to mention videos where "Karens get slapped!" and stuff. Encouraging violence against a whole race's gender is so WEIRD and terrible.
I'm so sorry that you had food poison because of the airline thanks for warning us about this. You definitely deserve a like for going through all this
Just some advice for the future, if you are recovering from food poisoning, even if you think you are starting to feel better, it is not good to eat fried food or food high in fat. I am sorry you got sick. I hope you are feeling better now.
I’ve eaten street food in Vietnam and thought I’d be wretchedly sick but luckily, I was fine and the food was SO good! Just keep to bottled water and near a toilet - and away from Burger King 😮! Great sights and view from the Jesus statue! Great review, Josh!
Hi Josh! I also got food poisoning on an Air Canada flight between Toronto and Frankfurt. It really flared up on the flight from Frankfurt and Cairo. I managed to “use” all the little bags in business class. Not funny at all!
Since Josh told a little about the history of Timor, the estatue that appears at 27:04 is a reproduction of a historical photo of the massacre that took place in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili on November 12, 1991 in the fight for independence
I am surprised that East Timor was able to gain independence against a large country like Indonesia. Goa, India was in a similar situation with 75% of the population being Catholic before 1961. It was futile attempt to even try to go against a powerful country like India and so they were swallowed up by the bigger country. They have since gone to less than 25% Catholic and the rest being Hindu as a lot of Indians have moved into Goa since and continue to do so. From recent press coverage the Christians do face communal animosity now, with the government of the current PM who is very much proHindu, and is against secularism.
I would have expected to see a lot more Portuguese architecture in East Timor like they do in Goa. Goa has some magnificent churches that rival the ones in Europe that are 400 and 500+ years old. When India invaded in 1961, the Portuguese governor was given the order to destroy all the huge glamorous buildings the Portuguese built on his way out, but he refused the order and was jailed on his return. Goa was also considered a province of Portugal and not a colony, and when India invaded it did cause a stir as it meant India invaded a NATO country.
Burger King when you already have food poisoning…. Either incredibly brave or stupid….. 🤪
Right?? The only restaurant in North America I've ever gotten food poisoning from was Burger fuggin' King. Take a crap, don't wash up, start ripping up lettuce for the whoppers.....💀💀💀
@@exidy-ythuh? I’ve never gotten food poisoning from any Burger King from Canada to China
@@odzergaming Welp, I got it in Canada.
Actually I would think the opposite. Burger King I assume would have the western standards for cleanliness with restaurants following extensive protocols for food safety and hygiene, as apposed to a local restaurant. It is a shame he was not able to sample the local cuisine. I always carry Imodium Ad, it is an anti diarrhea medicine when I travel. The last thing you need happen to you, is being told that you can't go to the toilet on a plane. Unfortunately it has happened a lot on flights and that is why Airline seats are some of the worst for hygiene as they don't do a deep cleaning, as they have to turn those planes around quick.
I don´t get the hate for BK as here in Helsinki it´s the only place I go for burgers. But it could be location specific. Haven´t tried them elsewhere. I just dont get any of the drowsiness eating all my stomach can handle from BG (double whopper meal for 10 euros) that I get from McD or other more local burger providers. Maybe its just a personal issue of what fits who. Who knows?
you should do this more often.. taking us with you not only on your flights but with you going around different places! good job!
You know what I admire about you? You KNOW THE RULES! Nobody can come with stories. You educate those who should already know the rules but don’t . Imagine being schooled by a passenger as a manager. I would be embarrassed 😩😩
I got food poisoning on Thai Airways back to Australia
I was on the toilet most of the way including while landing
Does food poisoning work that fast? How long was your flight?
@@cjojay it sure does
I was so sick and to top it off we had a connecting flight in Australia to reach our home.
I was sick for 48hrs and had to go to the hospital and placed on a drip due to server dehydration
I’m really picky when it comes to food on any flight now
Imagine everyone on the flight got it, and all needed toilet at same time? 💩💩😭😭
@@cjojay It's usually *very* quick if you ingest poison that bacteria already produced. It needs (sometimes much) longer if you ingest the live bacteria or vira (viruses?) and they reproduce and produce poison inside the body and/or kill some of your cells. But even the latter can onset within an hour depending on where the damage occurs and the amount of infectious mass ingested.
@@redbullvodka5696well, that happened on Japanese airline, with omelette
Looking forward to watching this later. Your flight reviews stand above the others. Well done Josh!
Hi Josh, greetings from West Virginia in the USA! I had to pop in and say thank you for this channel, I really love travel/camping shows and came across a video of yours a few days ago and am absolutely hooked. Your content is so incredibly unique and riveting, I SO love that you travel 'off the beaten path' and I get to see other parts of this incredible world of ours. I am currently unable to travel or sometimes unable to walk due to lyme disease and the escape to places I will never see is a blessing.
When I can I will Patreon!
Drink lots of fluids, take care of yourself, you are very much needed.
i think sri lanka fell off 😂
Now that we are talking hygiene on aircraft I,d like to share a tip that I use .
On flights that supply a hot towel and After I have used it to freshen up myself I wipe down all the hard surfaces such as armrests , touch screens , fold out tables and where supplied the controllers for the in flight entertainment .
And you should see what comes off !!!! Yuck ! .
Josh made a very good point on noting that most people were not eating on the flight , on these smaller airlines that gives you a great clue as to what the food is like and is exactly what I look for .
Hi Josh I would love for you to do a tour of New Zealand both north island and south via fiji again,loads of internal flight within New Zealand from Auckland to Christchurch,hokitika on west coast to queenstown and then a Antarctic adventure too,no one else has done it and would be great if you did do it before Noel does lol,great videos as always Josh
Yes NZ would be great
Thank you for showing us no go countries.
24:55 woops! You forgot to censor his face...that poor guy, wonder if he still keeps his job or just get reprimanded from this Btw my country Brunei will be launching its 2nd airline GallopAir next year, hoping to see your reviews on that soon? And speedy recovery Josh!
To my surprise, FL24 shows that DrukAir from the Kingdom of Bhutan is flying between SIN and DIL with an A-319, A5-JKW 😊
Air Peace: We hold the crown for prob the most dodgiest airline Josh has flown with
Aero Dili: Give me your passport....
What a nightmare. Thanks for the post, I will never think about using them.
Great journey. Anyway, "DILI" means "craziness" or some similar in my language.
Just a story: when I first flew back from India I was allowed to land in the business loo by the captain, saying 'just be very careful' 😀. And it wasn't because of the food served on KLM. Afterwards, I was on a sick leave for 3 days, making a lot of review of the loo of my house 😀😀
6:05 Lion Air also has a prayer card
And this is why I travel with active charcoal tablets 😂 If you can keep them down they help. Also, some Vomistop after the initial purge is good as well. Never have I gotten sick from plane food though. 🤢
Be careful to stop diarrhea and/or vomiting with medication until you're 100% sure it's only water/tea you're discarding!
I had food poisoning from contaminated fish when I was pregnant and I was very ill. I had diarrhea and vomiting at the same time. I thought I was going to die. I was unable to eat anything for days and just drank flat ginger ale as advised. I wouldn't have eaten that Burger King Josh....especially if I had to fly. As it was I had a ship to catch as well as a train to my new home with my fiance, who also had food poisoning from the fish. Luckily we had recovered from the worst of it when we had to travel but we were still weak and fragile and needed to sleep a lot for the net few days.
Hi Josh. Sorry you got unwell but surely eating at the local BK when you were already in a bad way was a strange choice.
Keep up your amazing content pal!
One of the rare episodes (in general) where traveling to a certain place was an uncomfortable experience all together. A rare find among YT travelers today. I click thumbs up
The first thing I do when I open a Josh Cahill video is click the thumbs-up button. Then I enjoy the ride.
Most notorious food items for food items on a flight I avoid are uncooked items in tropical countries. Fruits and salads as well as items which are not properly heated. After one incident on a international flight, I learned the hard way..
$500 for 2hrs flight, that's expensive 😮
My tip is always have disposable wipes and a change of clothes in your hand luggage. Have done London/Bangkok five times this year with no problems
Tray tables and seat belt buckles maybe the culprit.
That was a big airplane model you were carrying around.
Sorry that you got sick!
I had a similar experience on American Airlines business class last year. JFK-MXP…from the previous nights inflight dinner. Unfortunately it kicked in while on a regional train with no bathrooms…awful and embarrassing. Come to think of it, the only other time it happened was also with AA but from their Flagship lounge…LHR-ORD…from a small shrimp salad sandwich…that kicked in immediately…barely made it to the loo after take-off…but the FA saw me racing to the loo and had the door open…spent the flight on the floor in the loo (yes, gross), but the FA’s made a point to keep checking on me. The only other time it happened in air wasn’t the airline’s fault…Corsair … ORY-LAX many years ago in my backpacking days…the FA’s didn’t care at all. Ugh!
This is why I never EVER eat sea-bugs or anything related to them,. though I am sorry to hear of your experience with them. All it takes is one missed removal of the shit-sack on a shrimp and.....bam! parasites R u. 💀💩💩
I like the way you kept the station manager in Bali blurred at the beginning of the video then exposed him at the end!
Smokey, this is not Nam. This is Dili. There are no rules. 😂
6:05 That prayer card is apparently available in almost all Indonesian airliners.
I don't know if that was also the case with Timor Leste's.
Excellent videos Josh, you deserve all the recognition and respect of giving unbiased views and opinions on airlines! love it!
6:05, Lion Air Group also has an invocation card too! Quite interesting…
Becareful how you talk to Indonesians, doesnt matter if theyre in the wrong, if you want to reprimand someone, especially as a foreigner, be polite and dont embarrass them. Indonesians have high threshold of patience, once you go over the threshold, there can be violence. And dont point fingers.
Sounds like a them problem, not an us problem.
@@EminencePhront of course its always their problem, until some foreigners get stabbed. You die, they go to prison. Win/win.
yeah just be careful.. indonesia is very violence country.. known as some of the rudest internet users in the world.. no law too.. so be careful
True, even if you steal something like a candy bar, they can get very violent with you.
I got terrible food poisoning on a Hawaiian Airlines flight last year....for some reason my request for a vegetarian meal had gone astray and I wasn't happy.....then they told me they found something for me. It hit me shortly into the 10 hour flight. I'll never eat another meal on that airline again.
I’d think twice…I mean 100 times before I’d fly on an airline’s only craft. Too many cycles, like that inter-island one in Hawaii that made itself a convertible when a third of the cabin blew off. Too many landing and departures cracked the skin.
Too many cycles? So I guess just disregard every Southwest Airlines 737 that makes up to 10 cycles a day? It’s fine lol. That A320 probably only does 4-5 flights a day if that.
I’m a retired F/A here the USA 🇺🇸 so I decided to give your video a view. Very well done and you have just gained another subscriber 👍. I love anything travel related and I love to see the various aircraft. A prayer card in the seat back pocket does NOT instill great confidence for me!! 😬
A prayer card in the seat pocket doesn't seem like a good thing for nervous flyers.
A lot of people have told me to pre order a vegetarian meal in advanced on airlines. For one, the risk of food poisoning dramatically decreases but particularly in Asia some of the local vegetarian delicacies can be really good.
ugh I wish I could be as assertive as Josh :(
me too... it is a gift...
@@richjdnz I wonder if we can learn to be that way
His in the developing world on holiday .
He needs to chill .😂
@@Arcanine1995yes, you definitely can. A lot comes with age, but most comes with experience. If something feels wrong, always speak up. If you know you’re right, don’t let up.
@@julienfroidevaux1143ethnicity/race has nothing to do with what happened here. It’s very easy to problem solve and assure your customer at the same time.
Had food poisoning and feel for you. Broth and lots of water. What a beautiful country. The views from the statute of Jesus were well worth the 600 steps. Thank you for introducing a new country to me. As always it wouldn't be Saturday without a Josh Cahill video. Safe travels and feel better soon.
Who else is here after aero Dili posted his passport photo online ?
Sorry you got sick. I love your videos, you do all the work so I don't have to travel!
While it is possible that the airline catering caused your food problem, it is far more likely that you ate something a day or two or even three days ago that was the culprit. Most, but not all, cases of food illnesses take a lot of time. Since you were in Indonesia before flying, I wouldn’t be to sure about the catering. I have heard coworkers complain about getting sick an hour after eating. I think the illness come from their own refrigerator. A few things can come on quickly but often they cause sever illness that affects many people. However, I am sorry that you have a problem!
It is very important they have impeccable service on their signature Airline if they want to draw customers to their Island. And safety should be at the top of the list, including food safety! I was not aware of the fact that lots of foreigners were chosing East Timor as a retirement expat home. The infrastructure is lacking especially if that is the only hotel with western amenities. It is important for Westerns to have more of a choice if there are to vacation there. For the elderly Western expats, medical is a huge factor. The streets did look clean.
Thanks Josh, for the extra treat of sharing the sights of East Timor. It is rare you do that. I do like to know what the rest of the world is like especially unfamiliar locations.
Sometimes I feel Josh is usually looking forward to having bad experiences. Sorry for the bad experience.
It is what gives him the most views
Nothing more draining than a bad flight. I prefer the happy ones but I do have a responsibility to tell the story as it happens.
I think the prayer card is the legacy of the Indonesian occupation. Until as late as I was a child, in the early 2010s, several Indonesian low-cost carriers still have such.
dili belly instead of delhi belly
Wonder if the catering was prepared in Bali. Bali Belly.
@@Ryanhothersall It was prepared in Jakarta, Java belly
Love the Aussie accent breaking through in ya there Josh!
Something that i've caught my eye while doing a little research about that country is East Timor only has 2 airlines. Aero Dili and Air Timor. The only Aero Dili A320 is 15 years old. I feel so sorry that you have a food poisoned that day while you are in East Timor. As an Indonesian Avgeek, I have never visited that country and after watching this video, i think i won't visited that country because me and my family are a bit worried about visiting that place. The only countries that i've visited when i was a kid with my family was Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. Hopefully i can visited a new country in the near future.
What a stupid comment after what you Indonesians did to the people and country. I was there when the peace keepers moved in. I saw it first hand and you have the audacity to make a comment like that. The Indonesians and their brainwashed puppets committed the rape, murders, kidnappings and thefts. The East Timorese are so beautifully nice, kind and caring. They won't forget but they have forgiven.
Im even surprised they have an airline considering how poor their country is.
@@dacosguterres5864poverty is when your country has the highest stunting rate and malnourished. Never beg to Indonesia? Say that to your government officials that always Come to Indonesia ask for free training and donations.
@@dacosguterres5864growing how? Your gdp has been stagnant for the Last 5 years.
Sorry about you being sick, thank you for your hard work. Tuly the best.
What a horrible experience 😮 not sure I would ever take that trip. also it seems to be very expensive for a very poor country from the airline ticket to everything else that you bought
And now theyve leaked his PASSPORT on their FACEBOOK
I can understand the urge to eat something familiar and theoretically safe after being sick. Unfortunately for many, BK never goes down well and is always regretted.
East Timor is not on my list of places to visit.
I’m not vegetarian, but I ask for the vegetarian meals on planes, no meat makes it so much safer
Generally a good option in developing countries. Especially if you have western guts.
@Dreamweaver787 ? The most potent naturally occurring toxin is created by bacteria that live on meat. Veggies and fruit are your safest bet, because you can tell if they're still good or not.
Well, be careful with your vegetarian diet. Simple things such as lettuce, asparagus and mushrooms etc can be full of dangerous surprises. All food can be dangerous on an Airplane !
Not a fool proof solution unfortunately as salad can be washed in dodgy water but it isn’t the worst idea
I think it was the pudding that made Josh sick. It looked bad when he stuck his spoon into it.
When you say "My emotional home SRI LANKA is missing". I truly felt it. Thanks for the love.
The invocation (prayer) card is found on all Indonesian airlines, so it is not the 'first airline in the world' to have them.
Nonsense
@@JoshCahillI remember we have that for long time, but not every airline