Right then, on board Air North 737-400
Why would somebody go out of their way
who isn't an Avgeek to ride on an Air North battered old 737?
But, I would.
[Clerk] Hi there. [Noel] Hiya.
I'm checked in already
[Clerk] Would you like to check anything?
[Noel] Gate 22, lovely, thank you very much. Cheers have a good one.
[Noel] Cheers.
You know, it's like six o'clock at night, I've not even eaten today yet
this is how it usually goes on these trips, if I'm completely honest
there are days where I just don't end up eating, and this is one of them
and I am really hungry now.
And, there's nowhere open
that's actually going to serve me food in the 20 minutes
I've got until my flight goes. But nevermind.
We're off to Kelowna today with an airline called Air North.
[Noel] Cheers, thank you too.
(bag rustles)
So, we're flying with an airline tonight caleld Air North
who, apparently, call themselves Yukon's airline
they mainly do flights up in the North of Canada,
in Yukon and that part of the world
but tonight we're flying with them on a flight from down here
in Vancouver across to Kelowna
which is only a 40 minute flight, or so.
They just, sort of, tack it on the end of their Whitehorse leg
which is going to be interesting.
The flight's just arrived in, it's on an old 737...
I can't remember what exact model it is,
they seem to change every five minutes
but it's an old 737, anyway, we'll find out in a minute.
When we get on board and take our flight over to Kelowna.
[Noel] Hi there.
Right, we're off to Kelowna with Air North.
[Noel] Hi there [Attendant] Hi there
Right then, on board Air North 737.
What type is it actually, hang on.
It's a 400. I couldn't tell from the angle it was parked at the gate.
This is quite nice, isn't it? Look at the leg room we've got here.
Very spacious. Very nice, if old, and ancient 737-400.
I mean...
It's all a bit...
Wobbly.
But it's alright, it still works.
Clearly, it's got them down from Whitehorse to Vancouver,
so, hopefully it should have no problem with the 40 minutes or so over to Kelowna.
It's nice, always nice to get on an old 737
and I have to say, as well, the entire process to get through YVR tonight
was just the most seamless, quick, experience I've had in such a long time.
I literally walked out of the car from my ride 20 minutes ago
and now I am on the plane. (laughs)
Just as easy as that.
And now we've got a short flight over to Kelowna
which I am looking forward to.
(engines get up to speed)
My flight today then took us North East out of Vancouver
to Kelowna with a flight time of just 36 minutes
cruising altitude today, 25,000 feet.
Now the line between when an aircraft goes
from being a run of the mill aircraft type
to something that's actually worth going out of your way
to ride on.
It can be quite a blurred line
a lot of the time.
I made the mistake in the past, many times,
of not taking the chance to fly on aircraft while I still could
I missed out on aircraft like the DC-9, the 727, the 737-200
through being really blasé and not really wanting to go out of my way
to ride on them and I'm not going to let that happen with the older 737s
with the classics like the 300, 400, and 500.
I'm not going to let that happen again.
I am going to take every opportunity I get to ride on one of these
over riding on something much newer that is more run of the mill these days.
There's only 42 passengers on this leg tonight
this is actually a connecting flight onwards from Whitehorse
not Yellowknife, Whitehorse, it came in from
operating this flight.
Most of the passengers got off there, a handful stayed on
a handful got on at Vancouver to head across to Kelowna
which is why, if you look back, there's barely anybody onboard this flight
because why would there be people on this flight
when there are ten flights a day with WestJet or Air Canada,
or other airlines, to head across to Kelowna.
Why would somebody go out of their way
who isn't an AV geek to ride on an Air North battered old 737,
but I would.
And I am right now, because it's good fun.
Like, why, seriously why would I want to ride on a Dash 8,
when I can have this view out of the window?
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I don't seem to have been airborne for long,
we're already on our descent down into Kelowna
These 737s really eat up the miles, don't they?
I'm hoping we get a nice pretty approach tonight, that'll be nice.
Keep an eye out, see what happens.
My flight today cost me £75 or around about $100
which works out at a cost of 42p per mile
[Attendant] See you in a couple of weeks [Noel] Thanks a lot, see you.
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[Noel] I'm good, how are you?
[Clerk] Is it just yourself staying here? [Noel] It is, yep.
[Clerk] Sorry, the computers take forever to start up.
[Noel] (laughs) It's okay. No problem.
[Noel] I appreciate that. [Clerk] You're welcome, enjoy your stay.
[Noel] Hi there, I was just hoping to use that to get some drinks, please.
[Bar staff] Do you want a cider or a lager?
[Noel] Can I get one of each please? Is that alright?
[Noel] Perfect, thank you very much. [Bar staff] No problem.
(sighs) Well, hello.
And welcome, then to Kelowna
the Grand Okanagan Resort here in Kelowna
ooh, nice little view.
There's lots of boats.
This Kelowna is nothing like I expected it to be
if I am completely honest, I don't know what I expected
but I was expecting a little remote, sort of village
in a forest with little floatplanes
going up and down the river
and what I've found seems to be the Canadian version of Las Vegas
There's casinos and resorts, and hundreds of people everywhere
and music blasting, it's totally not what I expected
So yeah, that's Kelowna. (laughs)
Air North, well they were alright weren't they?
Short flight, 40 odd minutes or so
up the road from Vancouver, and it wasn't too bad.
I quite enjoyed it, very comfortable.
Lovely to get a ride on that old 737 still today
you can still fly on these things.
And a great alternative to flying on a WestJet Q-400, I guess.
Which is what I'm back on tomorrow, and not looking forward to quite as much
but anyway. I hope you've enjoyed the video.
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In the meantime, as always, thanks for watching.
Take care and I'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.