- Guess what?
I'm back in the Gaylord in Denver, Colorado.
And today, I'm saying goodbye to the Gaylord
and taking a trip to the highest commercial airport
in the whole of the USA.
Let's go.
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Hi, good morning. How are you?
- Over in Telluride stay in the plane.
- [Noel] Okay. - Wait there, for 20 minutes.
- [Noel] Okay. - Before boarding again
for the passenger going to Phoenix and you stay in.
- [Noel] Just stay on the plane. Okay. Fine.
Perfect. Thank you so much.
- Have a great flight.
- [Noel] Lovely. Thank you very much.
See you next time. Bye-bye. - See you next time.
- All right, all checked in for my flight today.
Decided to check in my bag actually,
rather than carrying it on the plane,
just because I can't be bothered
lugging it through the airport, today I'm worn out.
I got in here at like 11 last night
off my JetBlue Airways flight over from New York.
And I've kind of slept about three hours overnight
and now I'm just wiped out.
So I'll just head to TSA.
I've gotten to have my pre-check on,
so that should make it nice and straightforward.
Let's head down to TSA here at Denver
to see just how bad it is today.
Oh, that wasn't too bad.
That pre-check took less than five minutes today
compared to my hour long wait,
last time I had here at Denver,
it's much easier when you've got that
pre-check on your boarding pass.
So yeah, I'll
that little noddy train over to the gates.
- [Announcer] Train is arriving.
- Thank you.
So the highest elevation commercial airport here
in the United States is a place called
Telluride in Colorado.
It's over 9,000 feet up, up in the Rocky Mountains
and to get there, we're flying with Denver Air Connection
who I've flown before up to Alliance Nebraska.
But today, we're flying on their 328Jet
which I've not been on before.
And it's a very long walk from the
right down to the Denver Air Connection gates here.
So there's a flight heading to Alliance, Nebraska
about to head out as well.
I so need head back there at some point.
If you've not seen that video already, by the way,
check out the link here on the screen.
That was an amazing experience
flying with Denver Air Connection
to the amazing little town, Alliance in Nebraska.
But stay, no, not really now,
we'll hopefully head back there soon though.
I'd like to go back and see it all again,
but for now, we're going another way down to Telluride.
Thank you.
- Should be warmer there.
- [Noel] Morning, you all right?
Thank you.
- I believe I've seen your YouTube channel.
- [Noel] You may well, I've done. Yeah.
- Yeah. I'm AJ, nice to meet you, man.
- [Noel] Nice to meet you, yeah.
- [AJ] That's awesome.
- Nice to fly through Telluride.
So I haven't been there before
so through there and down to Phoenix, so...
- [AJ] Awesome.
Glad to have you on board, man.
- [Noel] Thank you. Yeah.
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My first flight today then took us Southwest out of Denver
towards Telluride in the Rocky mountains.
Flight time today was 53 minutes cruising at 30,000 feet.
So then airborne out of Denver heading to Telluride.
So there's Aspen down there of course.
Home to rich Americans who enjoy
hurtling down this side of mountains,
attached to planks of wood.
So I'm really looking forward to landing in Telluride.
I've heard it's a really incredible approach in landing,
and also very challenging for the pilots.
They've got high terrain all around the airport
and the airport itself has a steep cliff
at the either end of the runway.
So it makes it a really tricky approach
in landing down there.
I'm super excited to see what it's like.
I've heard it is also,
one of the most beautiful approaches in the whole world.
So I'm really excited.
- [Pilot] Flight attendant, please prepare for landing.
- Here we go, starting our approach.
- [Flight Attendant] Welcome to Telluride.
The time now is 10:48.
We'll be for just another minute,
so we ask you remain seated with a seatbelt fastened
until we come to a complete stop.
- No, that was a very cool approach in landing, wasn't it?
Here we are, Telluride, Colorado.
Telluride, Colorado then, 9,070 feet elevation,
the highest commercial airport, here in the United States.
And it's blooming cold.
I'm gonna go and get the on board
to get on our way down to Phoenix.
So then on the ground here at Telluride, Colorado,
not sure how much you heard out there,
but it's 9,070 feet elevation,
the highest commercial airport in the United States.
There is another airport, slightly higher
but this is the highest one that you can actually fly into
on board a commercial airline.
And it is the best one in terms of the approach as well
because you get that amazing approach,
winding through the valley.
And the airport of course is really challenging.
It's just kind of got a sheer cliff drop
at either end of the runway.
I was just chatting to the first officer outside
and he said, it's always amazing fun.
It's one of their favorite destinations to fly to
in the 328Jet here, because it's just so much fun
weaving your way through the valley.
So just waiting for the next few passengers to go on board
then we're gonna continue
on the flight down to Phoenix, Arizona.
That's the next stop.
So I'm looking forward to getting some good views again
as we take off from here at Telluride.
- [Pilot] Flight attendant, please prepare for takeoff.
- My second flight today,
then took us Southwest again from Telluride,
down to Phoenix, Arizona.
Flight time for this leg was one hour and 15 minutes
cruising at 34,000 feet.
So then airborne once again from Telluride
heading now down to Phoenix, Arizona,
what an amazing, amazing takeoff that was at Telluride.
An incredible, incredible airport.
The video, just does not do it any justice whatsoever.
It is the most scenic airport.
One of the most scenic airports, I think I've ever been to,
possibly only topped by Lukla in Nepal.
Of course, if you're not seeing that video,
then knock yourself out up there,
but finish watching this one first.
Fantastic, so we've got about an hour and 20 minutes
or so now, down to Phoenix, not many passengers on this leg.
About 13, just on this leg, joining at Telluride.
Apparently not many passengers take the flight
from Telluride to Phoenix.
Most of it is Denver to Telluride
and they've only actually started the Phoenix service
in the last sort of 12 months.
So people are still not really knowing that
Denver Air Connection operate this flight down to Phoenix,
it would seem, but nevermind.
Hopefully the weather down in Phoenix
will be a little bit warmer than it has been up in Denver
and in Telluride.
So we'll find out in about an hour and 20 minutes, I guess.
- [Narrator] It's time for the "Noel Philips, Loo Review."
- All right, time for the "Loo Review,"
on the Dornier 328Jet of Denver Air Connection.
And well, it's a loo to review.
I got a sink,
got a waste and everything.
It's pretty decent, nice old sign up there.
Little bit cramped here,
right down at the back of the 328Jet.
But it's a very nice plane to ride on actually.
Interesting configuration obviously,
with the bathroom at the back, like it is on these things,
but yeah, having a great time so far.
Enjoying my ride on the 328Jet.
- [Narrator] That was the "Noel Phillips, Loo Review."
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So then, welcome to Phoenix, Arizona
where it's a lot warmer than it was when I left Denver.
And I'm feeling a little bit better dressed than I was
when I was up there and it was -15.
But yes, I had a great ride down with...
Ooh, very bright over here isn't it?
Had an absolutely wonderful ride down
with Denver Air Connection.
The captain of that flight, Cliff,
it turns out he's actually the owner
and CEO of Denver Air Connection.
So it was great to fly with him as well.
We had an amazing chat up at Telluride about the airline
and about my previous video to Alliance, Nebraska
that I did with them on the Metro.
I'll pop a link to that on the screen right now
if you've not seen that one already
but let me know what you thought too.
Telluride Airport, America's highest commercial airport
down in the comments below and in the meantime,
thanks for watching, take care
and I'll see you on the next one.
Bye for now.