- Right, so airborne from Dublin
onboard our private King Air 250, how flipping cool is this?
Started our descent down into Gamston.
There you go, words I never expected to be saying.
Hello and good morning from Dublin in Ireland,
and today I'm going to say the words
I never thought I'd be able to say.
We've chartered a private jet.
- Yay!
- [Noel] The first step today then
was to the private terminal here at Dublin,
also known as the platinum services suite.
All private aircraft arrive and leave from here.
it was great to be able to hand over the baggage trolley
to let the professionals have a go.
- The whole lot are gone.
Well, that went well, didn't it?
But nevermind, at least we were able to head inside
To relax for a bit before our aircraft arrived.
- Do you need to see anything?
- Perfect. - Thank you.
- [Noel] Thank you.
Perfect, thank you.
- No problem.
Here you go.
- [Noel] Thank you.
So the story of how we ended up getting a private jet
is quite a long one involving canceled flights
and rescheduled flights and effectively ending up
working out cheaper for us to take a private jet
from here in Dublin,
back to our local airfield in the UK,
and that's exactly what we're doing today.
So we've got a King Air on the way, it's just taken off
and it's heading over to Dublin now to come and pick us up
and we're here in the Signature Aviation Suite
here at Dublin. Say hello, everybody.
- [All] Hi!
- It's almost time to head home.
All right, they just told us that the planes here
and it's time for us to go and get on board.
Excited, excited? - Yes.
- [Noel] Excited Sam?
- Yeah.
Tato. - [Noel] Mr Tato.
- All right, let's roll. - Got everything?
- [Noel] There is still a security check
here at Dublin,
even with a private aircraft.
It's pretty simple though,
no restrictions on liquids,
and you just have to make sure
that you have them all together in the same bag.
I suppose that's the benefit
of not being on an airliner, isn't it?
You can just chuck it all in.
- It's good to know for the next time, you know?
- [Noel] It's got whiskey and all sorts in it
so just make sure it gets on the plane
- Have a safe flight, sir. - Thank you very much.
Off to the plane. Very smooth experience here at Dublin.
Our ride back to the UK today then
was this Beech King Air 250,
originally delivered new in 2017.
That's us.
That's our airplane.
Private airplane that's taking us back to England.
Excited?
- Yes
Who did you say we're going to be, Sam?
Who did you say you felt like?
- Like Joe Biden, or something.
- You feel like Joe Biden?
Air force one.
It's very similar colours to air force one, isn't it?
It's a King Air 250.
It's about four years old, or something, I think.
It's very old.
- That's not very old at all.
Are you gonna stand at the top of the steps
and wave as you get on?
- What, wave, like backwards?
- Yes, yeah, exactly.
Wave at everybody watching,
and then on we get. Here we go.
Wait there, Anna, please.
Hi there, you all right?
All right thanks. How are you?
- I'm very well, thank you.
- [Noel] Good.
Okay. That's fine.
You all right?
- Yeah.
- [Sam] Is there any overhead bins?
- [Noel] No.
There's no overhead lockers, Sam, no.
Once everyone was on board,
it was time to get on our way back to the UK.
- [Noel] Our route back home today then,
took us East, out of Dublin,
to cross the Irish sea,
North Wales and Northern England,
landing into Retford Gamston, in Nottinghamshire.
Flight time today was 57 minutes, cruising at 19,000 feet.
Right, so airborne from Dublin,
on board our private King Air 250.
How flipping cool is this.
We're all on board.
About an hour's flight time.
Now we're actually flying to
our very local airfield of Retford Gamston.
It's the airfield that I fly from on my Pilot Vlogs channel,
which I'll pop a link up on the screen to,
in case you're not already a viewer
or a subscriber of that channel.
But, it's like 10, 15 minutes from our house.
So it makes so much more sense
to be able to fly directly back from Dublin to Gamston.
And I'll let you know in little while,
about how this has worked out
and how we've ended up being
on a bloody private jet.
I mean, this is insane.
Or a private prop, should I say.
Before anybody says.
Although it is a jet, it's a turbo prop.
But, pedantics,
knock yourselves out in the comments anyway.
It's a beautiful aircraft.
It's about four years old, seats six people,
and at the back of the cabin, there is a,
like a toilet down at the back in that little bit there as
which can be converted into a seven seat for somebody,
who wants to sit like a dunce
for a couple of hours or whatever.
But we've got these nice leather white seats,
We got drinks down here ready.
These blinds actually, are really cool.
You can do, they're like Dreamliner blinds.
You press the button and the windows go blue.
Very cool indeed.
And of course the best thing,
the best thing, above everything about flying
in a private jet for an aviation geek,
is the fact that I can sit
right here, with the pilots right behind me.
Flying us over
back to the UK.
It's a really comfortable little plane,
and looking forward to getting back to Gamston,
but I'm actually looking forward
to enjoying the ride over there first.
So then, in brief the story about
how we ended up being able to get a private jet
and it working out cheaper than flying commercially.
Essentially when we take a flight
on a long haul destination
we tend to fly from Dublin.
Generally because it is a lot cheaper
than flying from the UK,
we don't have to pay passenger duty
or anything like that.
And the flights generally are a lot cheaper
when you fly from Ireland, as opposed to the UK.
When you've bought these flights,
you just have to tack on
a cheeky Ryanair or Aer Lingus flight
over from East Midlands or Birmingham
to Dublin and there you go.
You've got your really cheap airfare.
Now the problem we had is our Aer Lingus flight
back to Birmingham was rescheduled
to six o'clock this morning,
Which meant that we would then have,
there's no flights tomorrow.
So it would mean that we would have a two day wait
in Ireland before we could get home.
In part due to the fact that Stobart Air
have gone bust and all the rest of it,
we kind of would have been a bit stranded.
We looked at changing our Air Canada flight
to come back to the UK and they wanted
a whopping £12,000.
So £2000 each for all six of us to fly back to the UK.
My response to that.
- How about no.
- So essentially we looked into booking a private jet,
or a private aircraft to take us
back to our really super local
airport of Retford Gamston in Nottinghamshire,
which is like 15, 20 minutes from our house.
And that's all we ended up doing.
I'll let you know the price at the end,
but it was, let me just tell you,
it was a heck of a lot cheaper than paying the price
that United wanted to send us back to the UK.
And here we are on a private jet,
on a private aircraft heading
back across the Irish sea to the UK.
I mean, how cool is this?
This beats an Aer Lingus A320, doesn't it? Lets face it.
Now I know a lot of people are probably interested in how
you actually go about booking a private jet.
I mean, there's several ways you can do it.
A lot of people like these empty leg things
where you can sort of go on
and book an empty leg on a private jet,
which is all very well. If they've got a private jet going,
where you want to go.
For us, obviously there was no empty leg
on this specific routing
from Dublin to Gamston on this specific day,
to this specific time.
So we had to go through something called a Broker,
and they effectively go away
and get you a load of quotes and prices
for different private jets, and they handle everything.
The company we used was called JetApp,
there's loads of them out there,
and they effectively came back
with a list of private jets that we could've had.
and you choose the registration,
and the type of aircraft that you want
from the list that they give you.
Then it's all just done for you.
And all we had to do was just sort of turn up
to the general aviation terminal at Dublin,
and we'll have to do the same at the other end and just like
rock off the plane, get into the car and head home.
It's really, really simple.
And I suppose for the people who are doing this regularly,
that's the key to this is so much easier just to be able to
rock up to the airport, jump on the plane,
jump off the plane. And then get to where you need to be.
There's no airports to deal with or anything like that.
It's really, really easy.
That's effectively how it works.
Now. There is no denying at all
that this is an incredibly convenient way
to travel if it works for you.
And I have to say in all my time
traveling around the world,
this is the first time that the precise set of circumstances
have lined up to make hiring a plane
the more practical alternative over commercial.
the convenience, the cost,
and of course that there's six of us
to share it, all made it the more practical
and cheaper alternative to changing our flights,
where we'd still have a massive bill and a costly
and time-consuming trip back from London.
All right. So we've started our descent down into Gamston.
There you go, words I never expected to be saying
on board an aircraft like this.
Started our descent down into Gamston,
We'll be on the ground in a few minutes.
So cool just sitting here, watching the pilots
do what they do. I mean, private jets are lost on me
because I just sit here
watching the pilots for the entire flight.
But it's all good.
You having a good time, Sam?
- Yes.
- [Noel] You enjoying the private jet experience?
- Yes.
- [Noel] Awesome.
- You're holding the microphone like an interview.
- Indeed.
For channel news, six at five, this is Noel Philips.
Our fight back from Dublin today
ended up costing us just over £800 each,
working out to a cost of £3.79 a mile.
Even when you add this to the cost of our flight
across the Atlantic from the USA,
it still works out at less than £1500 each
for the whole journey,
including the long haul bit in business class,
which for me still represents pretty decent value for money
to say we arrived just 10 minutes from home.
Either way on this date,
and in these particular circumstances,
it made perfect sense to do this.
But, put it this way.
I don't think I'll be giving up on Ryanair anytime soon.
Thank you very much.
So then, back at Gamston.
After our nice little ride,
in this cool little aircraft down here,
this King Air 250,
what did you reckon?
- It was nice and I can tick it off my list,
but the next private jet's gotta be one of the big jets
with, you know, the sofas and everything.
- So you want like a Gulfstream.
We're not going to get Gulfstream into Gamston, Rach'.
Hate to break that,
And also we got a long way to go
before we can afford
a Gulfstream.
- But yeah, that was pretty cool.
Let us know what your thoughts were down in the comments.
The good thing about this now is that we've got
like a 10, 15 minute drive home from here.
So we're just hanging around here a minute,
waiting for the taxi and then we'll be home really quickly.
Which is another cool thing because clearly
we live very close to a smaller airfield
like this, than we would to somewhere like Birmingham
or East Midlands, maybe.
So that's the other great thing about it.
So yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video.
Let me know what you thought to it
down in the comments below.
In the meantime, thanks for watching.
Take care and I'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.