- All right.
So I'm back in, Chandigarh in the Punjab region of India
and I'm taking another flight today
with another Indian, low cost airline.
Now is it that every time I go
through an Indian airport security point
I'm just thinking that's one less Indian security point
that I've gotta do before I get home.
And that's another one ticked off, Chandigarh.
It wasn't too bad here in Chandigarh,
quite quiet and they weren't too bad,
they were quite nice and friendly.
Gonna try and get some food.
They haven't really got that much in the way of food
selection here at Chandigarh
so I'm thinking I might head to the lounge actually
and see if I can use priority pass and get in the lounge.
Let's go see.
All right, looks like it's fast food after all.
Let's go see what we can get.
So I'm flying with an airline today
called Go First Air who are,
like I mentioned earlier, an Indian low cost airline,
one of the three main ones they've got here
alongside Spice Jet and IndiGo.
And yeah, they basically fly A320s the length of India
low cost airline connecting all the major cities, really.
And we are in one of them today, up at Chandigarh,
and we're heading down to Delhi,
but to get to Delhi, for some reason,
the flight goes the other way first
and has a stop over somewhere in the north of India.
So we'll see how that goes,
it'll be a fun experience, won't it?
But yeah, flying with Go First Air.
I got me chicken burger and chili fries.
All right, plane's just landed.
So hopefully be getting on our way very soon.
Hello.
- [Gate Attendant] Only boarding pass required.
You can keep that. - Okay, thank you.
- [Gate Attendant] Thank you,
have a nice flight. - Thank you.
So there we go there.
Off to Delhi via Srinagar on the Go First A320Neo.
This is gonna be fun, isn't it?
- [Male Flight Attendant] 79.
- Hello. - Hello, how are you?
- [Noel] Good thank you, you?
- [Female Flight Attendant] Good evening, sir.
So are you a vlogger?
- I am, yes.
All right, so on board, very nice.
Very, very classy, actually.
Leg room isn't too bad at all.
That's okay, isn't it?
For a low cost airline that's pretty decent.
That safety card and stuff in there
and all the usual stuff.
But yeah, looking forward to this.
So our flight, first leg today takes us up to Kashmir
to a place called Srinagar
and then I think we stop and refuel or something there,
and then we carry on,
turn around and come back south past Chandigarh,
back to Delhi.
So that's tonight's routing.
I'm gonna get comfortable to get settled in
and yeah looking forward to the flight.
My first flight today then took me from Chandigarh
to the city of Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir.
Flight time on this leg was 56 minutes
cruising at 30,000 feet.
I am getting a little bit concerned,
I have to say, because everything that I'm seeing
and hearing is telling me this plane
is going to Srinagar and nobody seems to be going to Delhi.
So I'm a little bit concerned as to what's going on.
They keep talking about welcoming aboard
this flight to Srinagar,
nobody's at all mentioned anything
about it continuing on to Delhi.
So I'm a bit sort of not entirely sure what's going on.
My boarding pass says Delhi on it.
So I dunno whether I have to get off the plane
when we get to Srinagar or whether I can stay on
because I'm going all the way through, I don't know.
I guess we'll find out when we get up there.
But yeah, beautiful, sunny evening
here in Northern India anyway,
heading north for about an hour
before we then met south again,
to fly right back through here for some reason,
I don't know.
So Go First's promise is that you come first,
it's their slogan, after all.
And I'm not entirely sure whether you come first
is a promise or whether it's an extra service
that they offer,
I know they are a low cost airline.
I don't know whether that's an additional thing
that you can buy,
not entirely sure, but yeah.
So Go First Air, have a buy onboard service
and I basically pre-ordered my food
when I booked my flight,
I can't remember what I'd ordered or anything,
I just sort of ticked what looked nice
when I book the flight.
Not quite enough room here for me bits.
It's not like flipping flatbed seats.
This is it, right.
So let's open my You Come First box,
I wonder what's in my You Come First box.
Okay, so it's like a samosas,
it's veggie samosas as well.
They look quite nice.
Try one of them while I'm waiting for me other thing
to sort of finish preparing for eight minutes.
That's actually really nice.
It's like a Greggs in the sky and over in India.
It's nice.
I miss Greggs.
All right, it's time to try me Idli Sambar.
I do remember Googling this.
I can't remember what it is for the life of me
but I do remember Googling it when I ordered it.
I thought, ah, that looks reasonable,
I might like to try that.
Clearly I've completely forgotten.
You're not entirely sure what it's gonna taste like
sweet, savory, or spicy.
Let's try one.
It's like bits of bread
that have just been dropped in water.
That's pretty much it.
Soggy bread.
Yeah, I mean as soggy bread goes it's all right.
Definitely prefer me samosa, though.
So started our descent down into Srinagar.
Wow, the scenery is just absolutely incredible
out the window as we cross into Kashmir
in the north of India.
I mean, look at that stunning scenery.
Himalayan plateau
as we start making our way down,
this is gonna be a beautiful approach.
I'm just kind of feeling it.
Now, the captains just come on by the way,
and said that we're gonna be about 10 minutes early
despite leaving half an hour late
'cause we've had a bit of a tail wind.
So that's pretty good, isn't it?
So we've had the best of both worlds.
We've had a bit of a tail wind,
we're getting in 10 minutes early,
and that means, of course, it's still daylight
and we get to see this beautiful scenery out the window.
So incredible.
- [In Flight Message] Aircraft reaches the parking gate
and the seatbelt sign is switched off.
- Passengers heading to New Delhi, i.e. me,
effectively we've got to stay onboard the plane,
which is great, means I don't have to get off.
It's a very heavily militarized airport actually
which is probably expected considering its location
right up here in Jammu and Kashmir
the bit in the north close to the border
with Pakistan, obviously up at the top.
So yeah, it is a bit of a fought after bit of land,
this that we're on at the minute.
So yeah, we got about half an hour, I think,
here in Jammu and Kashmir.
And then we can get back in the sky and head south to Delhi.
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Nice mug as well.
See my boarding pass?
- Thank you. - All right, thank you.
- I'll tag you on Instagram.
- Ah, thank you
- Please repost that.
So thank you so much.
- Oh, you're more than welcome.
It's nice to be on board.
- Sorry, sir?
- It's nice to be here on board.
- Oh, thank you so much.
Do you like our hospitality?
- I do, yes I do actually.
- You like- - I didn't know
what to expect.
- This is the first time you are
flying with Go First? - Yes, it is, yes.
- How was the experience, sir?
- Really good.
I was expecting kind of ultra low cost,
like no frills, Spirit,
and it's just really good.
It's really not.
So its really good. - Thank you so much.
I flew SpiceJet the other day
- Are you going to post
this video? - Yes.
- Oh thank you.
Hi guys.
Please follow my channel.
- What's your channel name?
- Sari - Sari
- Yes, I'm Indian blogger.
- Indian blogger.
So I put a link on the screen to that,
so yeah, lovely. - Thank you.
- You're more than welcome.
Thank you. - Namaste from India.
- The service that they've been giving so far
has just been amazing.
Certainly levels above some of the other airlines
I have flown on here.
I mean I'm looking at you SpiceJet
when I talk about no frills, no service, no nothing.
And they seem to pull out all the stop.
- [Narrator] It's time for the Noel Philips loo review.
- Loo review on the Go First A320.
This is the crew loo loo review,
special loo review,
that's this crew loo loo review.
And it's all right.
It's an A320 bathroom.
Feel like everything's crew only,
clearly we're in a crew loo review loo crew.
But yes it's alright.
- [Narrator] That was the Noel Philips loo review.
- It seems we've got another really rowdy crowd on flight
down to Delhi from Srinagar tonight.
Must be a Srinagar thing, I don't know.
It was really loud and shouty, but that's okay.
Livens things up a bit, doesn't it?
The next leg today then took me south from Srinagar
back to Delhi.
Flight time on this leg one hour and seven minutes,
cruising at 37,000 feet.
Well, there we go,
then eventually airborne from Srinagar
heading down to Delhi.
You know, sometimes I wish I could just be a fly on the wall
on the flight deck and figure out what was going on there.
That was so weird.
We sort of went to do a rolling takeoff on runway 13
back there and then sort of slapped on
after a couple of seconds
and aborted the takeoff
and then sat there for ages
before we did a short field takeoff
presumably because they'd used like a load of runway up
at this point, or a little bit of runway up,
then had to do a short field takeoff from there.
So interesting.
- [Flight Attendant] So I would like to thank you again
for choosing Go First for your flight today.
Looking forward to fly with you soon again.
- All right, we started our descent then down into Delhi.
Seems to have flown by quite quickly,
this flight actually.
So hopefully be on the ground very soon.
We are quite early, I think at the minute.
So we'll see if we keep that up on the way in anyway.
- [Male Flight Attendant] Thank you, sir, bye-bye.
- Thank you very much. - Have a pleasant evening.
- You too, thank you.
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I don't think I've ever been
through terminal two at Delhi before,
usually terminal three, isn't it?
But Go first Air obviously use terminal two.
It's not too bad, quite small and compact,
that's quite nice.
Hey, there I am back in me room
back at the hotel in Delhi
after oh, quite a nice flight with Go First Air.
I quite enjoyed that actually.
Quite a nice airline actually,
to be honest, I wasn't expecting that.
I was expecting completely no frill,
Spirit airlines type hospitality
and in the end got quite a nice little airline.
So very, very, very pleased with them actually,
to be honest.
So that's all the low cost airlines
that I've done here in India.
Now IndiGo, Go First Airways, and of course,
ooh, SpiceJet.
And I think to be honest, Go First and IndiGo
are probably on par as kind of the top two.
SpiceJet, ooh, avoid as you saw in my previous video
but don't forget to watch that video
if you haven't seen it already,
I'll pop a link on the screen now.
But in the meantime,
I'm gonna go and try and get some sleep.
Thank you so much for watching.
Take care and I'll see you on the next one.
Bye for now.