Literally, I've never been this confused on a flight.
I don't know what we're doing, where we're going or anything.
Phew. Holy Cow!
(Coffee machine clicks)
(Curtains rattle)
Urgh, it's far too early in the morning.
Now, we're not flying from the main airport in Montréal today
we're going from another little airfield on the edge of town
called Saint-Hubert airport.
It's very red here isn't it?
Saint-Hubert airport on the edge of Montréal,
and we're going to get a ride
over there now if he turns up.
It's half past five in the morning in Montréal
and I don't know if there's anybody up yet.
But hopefully my Uber will be here very soon.
[Noel] Perfect, thank you so much. Have a great day.
(Sound of suitcase wheels)
[Noel] Hey, bonjour. Good morning. How are you?
Thank you.
[Clerk] I have to advise you that the weather in Sept-Îles is...
[Noel] Okay, we may end up somewhere else. (laughs)
So, the airline we're flying with today is called Pascan aviation
and they operate a a fleet of regional aircraft here in the East of Canada.
Today we're taking a ride on their milk run along the St. Lawrence River
up to a place called Sept-Îles which is a small town quite a way up the coast.
Weather at the minute up there isn't looking brilliant they were saying
So, who knows whether we're actually going to make it to Sept-Îles today
it would be nice to try and figure it out. See what happens
but, in a few minutes we're going to be getting on board.
I think it's a Jetstream 32.
Which is pretty cool. Up to Sept-Îles.
Our ride today, then is this Jetstream 32
originally delivered new to American Eagle in 1992.
(inaudible announcement)
I'm very confused
I, obviously, don't speak very good French I didn't understand much of that
other than the weather, and him doing this with the plane.
or like move, as if we're going to be going around or something
I don't really know.
We were due to be having two stops on this flight as well
and I don't know if we are or not.
Literally, I've never been this confused on a flight.
I don't know what we're doing, where we're going or anything.
The plan is to go to Sept-Îles. (sigh)
If we will get there, I don't know. We'll find out.
They are starting the engines now anyway.
(sigh) Let's see what happens.
(laughter) I'm going to end up in some remote forest,
lakefront place, aren't I?
On my own, like bloody Bear Grylls, Lord of the Flies, Lost,
or whatever it is.
Who knows, it might even be Flight 828, Manifest
See you in five years! (laughs)
(Engine growls)
(Turboprops roar)
Right, airborne from Montréal Saint-Hubert airport
and I haven't got a clue where we're going
or what we're doing, or anything about this flight.
I just don't know.
(sighs) The original plan was to take this flight as a milk run
up to Sept-Îles and I believe the first stop
was supposed to be a town called Bagotville which sounds incredibly French
and it's on the St. Lawrence River
heading up towards the Gulf of St. Lawrence which is our final destination today
in Sept-Îles, right on the Atlantic coast
well, almost on the Atlantic coast.
I haven't got a clue what's going on.
I don't speak much French.
I don't really understand what the guy was saying earlier on.
He was waving his arms around and talking about doing this.
And I am like, yeah, I don't know!
(sigh) So we'll see. We'll see.
So first stop today then, Bagotville.
And then we continue on, hopping up the coast, up to Sept-Îles
on the Pascan Jetstream 32.
(sigh) Right we appear to be starting a descent.
Into somewhere.
It's very cloudy, you can't really see anything out of the window.
I don't know where we are descending to but we're getting much closer to the clouds
So, I presume that this is Bagotville.
They've not told us anything else over the P.A.
whether, we're diverting anywhere or anything
but I presume this is Bagotville that we're landing at now.
We'll find out when we get on the ground I suppose. (laughs)
The pilot just got out the biggest paper map
I think I have ever seen in about 20 years on the flight deck.
That doesn't bode well does it?
While we're in thick cloud
descending into somewhere.
(unsure) hmm.
I might have an A to Z in my bag, I could pass him that if he needs it?
(the plane rattles as it lands)
(unclear French dialogue)
(sigh) Right, we've landed in Bagotville
which doesn't look particularly French outside.
It actually seems to be a bit of a military base
there's loads of fighter jets parked up everywhere
all around the airfield.
So yeah, here we go, Bagotville, Canada.
Somewhere,
somewhere between Montréal and Sept-Îles.
The next stop is to...
I don't actually know, Le Baie-Comeau or something
is our next stop
further on up the river
before we go up to Sept-Îles
(inaudible over engine whine)
Right, I still have no clue.
(Turboprops roar)
Right then, airborne again from Bagotville
heading to our next stop on our wild mystery tour of Eastern Québec
which I think is a place called le Baie-Comeau...
le Baie-Comeau or something.
It's, like, half an hours' ride from Bagotville on the way up to Sept-Îles.
So, interesting little stop down there, it seemed to be some sort of military base
all the fighter jets and everything, all lined up. Pretty cool.
And now, well, we're back in the sky
battling through... we just got above the weather, actually.
I say battling through the weather but, we've just battled through the weather
and we're now on top of the weather heading up to le Baie-Comeau, I think.
I think.
If we get to anywhere past about half an hour of flying
then I'll be like, okay! What are we doing?
Because, at the minute, who knows what's going to happen
on this magical mystery tour?
[Announcer] It's time for the Noel Philips
Loo Review (loo flushes)
[Noel] Aaah, alright. Welcome to the toilet at the back of the Jetstream
this is pretty cool, so the toilet, effectively...
well, it's just a panel. You can see out.
Into the plane.
But you get the whole of the back of the aircraft
effectively the door, just sort of...
comes across.
Nice, grim looking toilet, there. Yuck!
Yuck yuck yuck!
There we go.
The Jetstream 32 toilet.
An interesting experience!
Just hope nobody can see in over the top.
[Announcer] That was the Noel Philips
Loo Review (loo flushes)
(sigh) It did just occur to me that with the nature of this toilet
being just a panel, effectively you're going to drop your lunch
in the back of the plane
if someone's had a really heavy breakfast or something,
as soon as they've left that alone then the entire aircraft
is going to be full of that...
aroma!
Eew!
And I am sat right next to it. (laughs)
Right, so we've been airborne now for just approaching an hour
after our take-off from Bagotville.
I don't think we'll be landing where I thought we were
at le Baie-Comeau, we're still...
tanking through these clouds
being bounced around a little bit
we don't seem to have started our descent or anything
and the pilot has just opened his lunch box
so I don't think we're going to be landing in the place I thought we were.
in le Baie.
So, maybe we're going direct to Sept-Îles, I don't know.
Don't you just love magical mystery tours, like this? (laughs)
We appear to have commenced our descent into somewhere.
We've been airborne now for just over an hour
So clearly, it's not le Baie-Comeau
because that's only half an hours' flying time from Bagotville
So, yeah...
unfortunately the weather doesn't let me see anything.
I can't see where we're going, I just know we've started our descent into somewhere
somewhere that's no doubt very cloudy and rainy, and miserable, and cold.
But we'll find out if we manage to land wherever we are.
(laughs)
The flaps are down, so we're clearly, about to try and approach somewhere
It's like opening a mystery box isn't it? What's underneath this cloud down here?
At the moment, nobody knows.
Well, I hope somebody knows. Because I, sure as heck, don't know.
Yeah, we're coming into land somewhere
and we'll figure it out, I think, when we're on the ground
where we actually are!
Phew! Holy cow.
We've landed.
That has to be the lowest cloud base I think we've ever landed in.
I don't know where we are.
I don't know if this is Sept-Îles we might have come straight in to Sept-Îles
I don't know, but it's minging weather.
Absolutely no idea.
Let's see what the sign says when we park up
and what the pilot says, or even if I can understand him.
Yeah, cool.
Okay, well, we're on the ground somewhere.
My magical mystery tour today cost £264 or around about $360
working out at a cost of 55 pence per mile.
(pilot makes announcement in French)
All right, so it seems that we made it direct to Sept-Îles.
Why we didn't land in le Baie-Comeau,
I'm not entirely sure why we didn't land there to be honest
but we're here at Sept-Îles.
All be it a little bit early because we didn't have the stop over on the way.
I need to figure out where my bag is.
Where do I collect my bag from? I'm not entirely sure.
There doesn't seem to be many signs here. So let's go and see if we can find it.
(laughs)
Excuse me? Where can I get my bag?
So, my bag is apparently down this way.
There's the baggage claim, okay. Cool.
Urgh. Right, here we are then in an incredibly, rainy, miserable...
This could be England, couldn't it? With this weather. But no,
we're in Sept-Îles, in Québec, Canada.
And, quite a nice, if confusing, flight up with Pascan.
I quite enjoyed that little ride on the Jetstream 32
they've got some Saab 340s which will be nice to try at some point
but, for now this is as far as I come across with Pascan today.
I've got a few hours here in Sept-Îles before I move on to my next adventure.
Where will it be?
Nobody knows!
Well, I guess I know, but then again, I am the one that booked it.
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