The World's Most BIZARRE Airline Seat! 15Hrs on Papua New Guinea’s Airline!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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I took 15 hour flight on the national airline of Papua New Guinea, to find out what it's like flying on a piece of aviation history!
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Hey noel did you do a flight review on your flight to texas?
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This brings back wonderful memories, I loved flying Air Niugini ✈
Hi josh did you do time in Bomana immigration detention centre ?
Because you look familiar
I love your videos Josh! I watched your as well, loved it :)
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PNG is home to some of the most generous people on the planet. They have little but will share in a heartbeat. So thankful that your experience was good on Air Nuigini. I have a very dear friend who lives in the mountain area over there and she flies on much smaller planes to get around, as a health worker.
But unfortunately port Moresby is a town you definitely don't want to visit if you value your life. It's a ridiculously crime riddled town.
@@jayr4857 sure, if you go looking for trouble.
@@becsaw5268 ok. I actually lived there for 2 years and I didn't go looking for trouble. So I know what I saw and know. Thankyou for your time, Have a lovely day. 👍🇦🇺
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Except you'd be lucky to survive there
Imagine if you've been watching Noel and the other UA-cam flight reviewers for years, scrimped and saved all that time so you can finally sample a long haul business class flight yourself. The big day arrives and almost overcome with excitement you board your Air Niugini 767 and then find you are sitting in that seat between the two lavatories. I feel really sad for that guy even though he's a figment of my imagination.
I'd love to believe that's the karma seat
Or you been saving for years.... when some UA-camr gets upgraded for free.....
@@a......5214 I wonder what the percentage is of free upgrades vs those who pay for the seat. My wife and I got one flying LHR to JFK a few years back on our honeymoon, just straight up asked for it and they gave it to us if we were happy to wait 3 hrs for the next flight. Even gave us a meal ticket for the delay! 😂
If you have to "scrimp and save"...you probably don't buy Business Class tickets.
@@richardsanfilippo6761 Read his comment again...
Air Niugini has a special place in my heart because I flew it at least twice a year growing up to visit relatives in Singapore and Malaysia while living in Papua New Guinea :)
Thanks for sharing!
Wow you grew up in Papua New Guinea? That's awesome 😎👍
Fokker Friendship ? Madang to Brisbane or whatever. Goroka & Lae too. Cannot talk pidgin on YT comments.
Great video. Brings back memories of when I worked in PNG and flew the airline every few weeks. Loved the airline and the country is amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The single seat between the two toilets is for upgrading frequent fliers to, that the airline employees secretly hate 🤣
Too funny!
You makes me want to travel by plane more. I have gotten over my fear of flying because of you and your adventures. Thank you
I’ve been around planes for a large portion of my life. I was a ramp agent for American and more recently became first officer for United after I switched careers (my intent was to always go to flights school and acquire my ATP License). These planes are strong, very strong. They do testing all the way from throwing dead birds into the Turbines, spraying ungodly amounts of water at full throttle all the way to testing the wings, the wings on some of these Aircraft can flex and touch tip to tip without breaking, this would never happen in reality though and is done in a controlled environment by the Aircraft Manufacturer. Also, Sure you’ve heard this before but, turbulence is nothing to worry about and some you should grow to enjoy, it’s the only eventful experience during the whole flight in my opinion. While everyone is freaking out in the cabin during turbulence and you start to get nervous just remember, the pilots in the flight deck are either reading the newspaper, taking their allowed Nap, drinking coffee, reading a book or having a conversation during the turbulence, they’re not worried. There are approximately 100,000 flights per day in the world, almost 37,000,000 globally a year, Billions upon billions of miles flown in commercial aviation history and billions of flights over time. You know how many have crashed? 1,500… such a minuscule number comparatively.
Lots of Aussie mining in PNG. The guy asking for spirits has probably been working in a mine for 3 months. No wonder he wants a drink.
To quote family guy "ah the airport, the only place people are drinking at 7 in the morning." Forget what episode thats from.
Love those seats you can lean back and the person behind you does not loose any room
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I flew a lot in the early 2000s within Australia and remember a Qantas captain on a 767-300 flight describe the aircraft as a racecar compared to other makes / models. Absolutely loved the unique sound as those RR engines spooled up. 👍👍
The plane, for it's age, was in excellent clean clean clean condition. Quite lovely for a retro plane experience!
Thank you for reviewing Air Niugini it's not the best airline by any means but to the local it's their pride and joy. Very nostalgic for kids who grew up in Papua New Guinea the A310, friendly ground staff and crew were like family always happy to see em. ❤🖤💛
Agreed 👍. As a kid the Airbus was the best their cabin crew were always so kind. Miss the people and the place dearly. We try to visit every few years but Covid.
Exactly 💯
Yep. My dad was one of the managers of air new guinea from the 70s to the early 2000s.
So i grew up there in the 90s. We had free flights. So flew all over. Very nostalgic
My dad was part of the 41st Infantry Division WW2 jungle training in Australia from Montana ! Started from Port Moresby then into hell. Heroes all.
Wow welcome to Australia Noel! I mean I'm sure you've already left probably weeks or months ago! Looks like a great experience. I'm travelling Singapore Airlines Business Class in January but I'll be wishing it was Air Niugini!
Gotta be honest...I'd be ordering a cocktail with breakfast too. Flying is the one time I allow myself to do it.
fun and frolicy review as usual, noel. PS, i love boarding through air stairs any old day. it's such a visceral entrance esp to aircraft not long for this world as is the 757-767, both designed and built at the same time. the amazing retro cabin (with the unique single center seat in biz class), angular bins and lively-colored leather seats are the bomb! i have very fond memories of flying the 767 as well when i was just a pup.
Welcome to our region, now fly domestic to Hagen or Tabubil for instance, plenty of more adventurous opportunities for instance MAF flights Hagen to Oksapmin. Then take Solomon Airlines to Honiara and some outer island flights, then onwards to Kiribati
Loved this one, Noel. I grew up in Port Moresby and Brisbane, many memories of the Air Niugini POM to BNE leg. Cool to see Port Moresby International Airport again! thanks heaps!
What years were you there?
Was great to see this flight as my love of aviation stemmed from my time growing up in Papua New Guinea for 16 years as a kid. I spent hours at Jacksons Airport plane watching and flying on all many classics, Fokker F27, F28, DC-3 and Air Niugjnis 707's, A300 and A310s and then their 767s and 737's. I also spent hours flying around PNG through the beautiful Highlands mountains and awesome coastlines on little Cessnas, Islanders, Twin Otters and many more. I had many friends who were flight attendants with Air Niugini and the service was always great. Pity you didn't spend any time in PNG as its a unique beautiful country with a hugely rich aviation history and some brilliant flying on some of the most remote hairiest shortest air strips in the world. Typical Pacific Islands charm on this airline, maybe one day you get back.
Yay 😇 exactly PNG is a beautiful place, it's a pity not many know that or are too afraid due to negative publicity 🤷♀️
@@kumul_meri Cant agree more, a stunningly beautiful country indeed!
I love your passion for flight.
If it wasn’t for videos like this I would have never ever had the guts to fly.
I was the very worst of terrified flyers .
I have used your videos to overcome my fears. I have now flown from Australia to the USA and right now I’m with my husband in Auckland. So thank you so much.
Please keep them coming.
My love to Rachel and the family ❤
Wow, thanks for sharing that! I am so glad the videos helped you.
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Love the 767 too. As for the Australian having spirits at 7 am, maybe he flew from a fifferent time zone and he feel like 19h00 having dinner.
Some Aussi males will drink at anytime.
Almost every pastelaria we saw in Portugal offered a deal on a pastry with a glass of port wine as soon as they open in the morning.
@@stephenjarzombek2903 exactly! The Spanish enjoy a cold sherry with their elevenses too !
@@keithphilbin3054 LOL I stopped in Gaia for a port tasting just after 11 AM but there was no way I was going to finish the five generous pours they set in front of me.
@@stephenjarzombek2903 when in Rome.......
Thanks Noel for the awesome video. I've been watching your adventures way back when your channel was at 2,000 subs. I am from Papua New Guinea and I gotta say this video really filled my heart with joy!
That is awesome, thank you!
Last year, my greatest flight memory is boarding an air China 747-8 with the stairs. That view was phenomenal.
Noel, please leave the whole take off run in your videos, we av geeks love to see them, cheers Keith
I really like the old style, less intrusive looking over head compartments of the 767. My 1st flight on the 76 was on Kuwait Airways going to Cairo. I've since flown it on Gulf Air, Continental & Air Canada. What a workhorse indeed.
Amazing to see the changes! I grew up in PNG- flying old school Air Niugini- the old 707 and the incredible Bird of Paradise livery when that was retired- I knew I was nearly home when I got on the Air Niugini planes!
Stairs in nice weather, jet bridge in bad.
Re: Australia man, vodka is spirits and vodka goes in a bloody mary and a bloody mary IS breakfast, soooooo.
Noel, you and Josh Cahill are the best aviation UA-camrz out there!! 🙏🇺🇸🙆♂️
So true
I recently flew on a tui 767. My first time on the aircraft type and the cabin was in better condition than the Dreamliner I flew out on. The take off power blew me away too. Lovely aircraft
I wish I had $1 for every time he mentions the plane, departure, or arrival airports. :-D
25:50 it’s always 4pm somewhere in the world
Thanks, Noel, always a breath of fresh air to hear from you and great to see that 767 looking so good after all these years. Keep up the good work.
My pleasure!
Was good to hear you seeing active Fokker 100’s. I did my 3 year aerospace apprenticeship on complete assembly of the F100/70 wing production. I worked as a journeyman on them after apprenticeship. Covered every phase of production from building spars to wing equipping. Production ended 1996.
Love the 767. My first long haul flight was on one. And countless hours while traveling. Truly miss them
Depends on what the weather is stairs if sunny jet bridge for rain
The first plane I flew in (I was 6 years old) was a DC6., from Brussels to Palma. After that, I flew on a plethora of planes types: Caravelle, DC8, DC9, DC10, MD11, B707, B727, B737, B747, B767-400ER (this one always Brussels-Newark and vice versa with Continental), A319, A320, A321, A330, A340, Embraer 145, Fokker (I don't remember the type; it was from Amsterdam to Brussels). I guess that's about it.
Its awesome to fly on such exotic airlines and I am really excited for your Australian Aviation adventure.
Great content as always.
Keep it up.
Thanks for watching!
@@noelphilips You're welcome.
I love the 767, especially with Delta. Old work horse but great planes. Crazy they haven’t updated it with new overhead bins and maybe the aerodynamic enhancements like winglets. Either way, I’m glad to see these planes still in use. My first flight was a DC-9 but the 767 is one of my favorites along with the 757.
Not wrong there, took one to JFK from LAX five years ago. Shows it's age, but shows how people travelled in the 80s & 90s
What are the new bins like and how are they different than the old ones?
Love your videos! Any chance when you're on the planes you could do a walk through the cabins to show the different classes?
I love Changi! Most of the airports around S.E Asia are superb and I get embarrassed and a little angry when I fly back to the UK for a visit, as Heathrow seems to get worse each passing year: it really IS a Toilet, don't you think?! I mean for God's Sake, look at Changi- it's an attraction in its own right!
B767 is incredibly versatile. Not only flown short haul from Glasgow - Heathrow but mainly long haul including Nairobi - Amsterdam (KLM), Heathrow - Baltimore/Washington (BA), Cairns - Singapore (Qantas), LHR-JFK and JFK-SFO (United) and more recently Toronto - Heathrow (Air Canada). Quite noisy compared to newer planes but amazing plane, nevertheless. Another great vlog - many thanks! ✈️
Great to see an Air Niugini video as I grew up in Port Moresby and watched planes from Jackson's Airport over many years.👍✈
Stairs much more fun Noel 👍🏻
Noel, at 26:34 you are pretty horrified by your fellow passenger having spirits with his breakfast - but as a long haul traveller yourself, you must know that timezones play havoc and he may just be having 'dinner' or lunch - in which case spirits are less of a concern to your fellow travellers! Don't judge lest you be judged! However if he was in any way disruptive through his choices, of course the crew should not serve him.
I haven’t been that side of the world for over a decade, cheers for the video. The Ozzie guy reminds me of when I worked nights and went to the pub after the last shift in the set and had a fry up and pint of doom bar, fun times. Keep on gaming 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I have to say I love the air stairs, I once boarded a 747 through them
The only 767 I went on was with Air Zimbabwe in 1991 from Gatwick to Harare. But the first aircraft I flew on was a Lufthansa B747-130 from Frankfurt to Johannesburg in Oct 1976. Two years before, the same flight crashed at take-off at Nairobi.
Oh welcome to Brisbane, what a surprise. I'm not far away on the Gold Coast, northern part. Look forward to seeing what you're doing in next vids. Enjoyed this one very much
Thanks! 😃
I was in Changi Airport 4 days ago. Had flown in very late at night on Malaysian airlines and had to re-check in again. Fortunately it was with Singapore airlines at their auto checkin and bag drop as I could then spend the night there in relative comfort before my 9am flight. Never been to New Guinea though. Flew on JALs 767 last year, so comfortable in economy and the best food of any airline.
That middle seat must have been designed as a loo review seat. Can't really get much closer to the action than that 🙂.
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Would be awesome to see you fly around PNG❤
Welcome to my home town. You've probably long gone by now. Brissy used to play host to heaps of my favorite type, the mighty B763. We had QFA, RBA, NZA, and of course, PQM just to name a few!
Thanks for flying with Air Niugini 🇵🇬
In the UK I prefer and airbridge/Jetbridge as it’s normally raining…and I hate having to get the bus back to a terminal!
Best airplane interior ever!! The original 767 cabin with those overhead bins at 4:26 as you pointed out.
I have done two "crazy" out and back trips to Vancouver, something like what you have done. This was to get on the last flights of the Air Canada "Gimli Glider" Boeing 767 C-GAUN , before it was withdrawn from service after 24 years with Air Canada.
I have flown on B767-200 and B767-300 hundreds of times since it was new in 1983. The 2 - 3 - 2 layout in economy is awesome.
At 31:16 even way before this week, I think that this was a hint that a trip cover to Australia with stops in Asia was coming soon; and now, welcome to the land down under! You have made it to the bottom part of this world from Europe to Mongolia to Korea to Vietnam to Singapore to Papua New Guinea and finally to Australia with you as one of these people who have almost circumnavigated the globe!
I'm guessing the equivalent to a 767 is a old intercity 125 in swallow livery with the comfortable mk3 seats 💺! The seats on the 767 looked alot more comfier than a BA A380 premium economy seat.....and it had better entertainment too on the 767...go figure! Great review 👏
Welcome back to OZ Mr Philips... As a touring musician I have flown from QLD to Victoria and Tasmania and await Perth domestically .... I have toured most places on the road, but love to fly. Your videos are a favourite view....
It’s to bad you couldn’t have hooked up and collaborated with missionary bush pilot he just came back but he has some interesting content
He's got some great aviation content on YT flying all over PNG.
Fantastic video mate. Just wondering if you were thinking of pulling a bloopers video at all?
Thanks for sharing, Noel! Brings back such good memories of SIN and the 14hr flight back to LHR. Looks like a cool airline, too! Shame BA got rid of their 76's, as I flew from EDI to LHR onboard one and it was full to the rafters with pax for the morning commuter rush.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That seat on it's own is the naughty seat if you upset the crew and they don't like you
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I see so many lounges where you either have to eat with a tiny plate on your lap or lean to the side to use a little side table. I wonder why those who don't have ample table room, don't just put flip up tray tables in the arm rest, similar to the seats on the plane. I've sat in really nice lounges where there are only a dozen seats around a normal table and you end up on a lounger, while trying to still eat like a human.
I always wonder what other passengers think when they see you heading into the loo with a camera...
I've actually tracked your flight from Singapore to Port Moresby.
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Man, can we have those retro 70’s and 80’s style overhead bins again? It’s one of the few things I’ve missed from the past millennia in terms of commercial planes. The best example is definitely the one in the TriStar, where the absence of the middle bin made it like a huge cinema.
AirNiugini also flies to Manila twice a week I think
The Dunder Mifflin shirt is the best part of the video for sure
Ooh definitely prefer stairs! Love seeing the outside of the plane upclose! Blessings from Brum Noel!👍🏼
Thanks for watching!
Thoroughly enjoyed that journey Noel, look forward to the next one… ❤✈️
More to come!
Sprits seven o’clock in the morning? Sure! Being a Swede I don’t raise my eyebrows over that. Early morning charters from Sweden starts with a gin and tonic before takeoff and wine and whiskey on the plane!😅
You’ve got to make a video flying your first airplane again May! Come to the US and fly Eastern that would be so cool
Welcome back to Australia mate
Thanks for watching!
Sorry to be the outlier here but I actually prefer the bus ride to/from the gate. 🤪
Thank you for traveling on our airplane, Air Niugini 🇵🇬
Looking at that business class seat between the lavatories, I was floored. 😀 I feel bad for the poor sod who gets that seat. The 767 is a pretty cool aircraft. I flew my share of those in the 80's and 90's. I was amazed at how much legroom the business class seats had. Like you said, some of the retro airplanes are the most awesome ones to be on.
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Flew back from Turkey last year 2022 on TUI's goddess 767, big smile on my face all the way
Completely agree Noel. I flew an American 767 across the US from Philadelphia to Las Vegas in November 2019 to see my best friend and go to a comedy show with the legendary John Cleese. Little did I know my best friend and fellow AV geek Jerry would pass away 8 weeks later. Special memories on a great airplane. Keep traveling safe and welcome to the United States🥰
That's very sad. Sorry for your loss!
Whenever I’m watching a video such as this one and out of nowhere an advertisement starts thus interrupting what I’m watch , guaranteed I’ll never buy the product they’re advertising!
First ever flight I had was on a Freddie Laker de Havilland Comet, it was lilac coloured and I thought it was fantastic. Distant memories.
Excellent vid, there's something comforting about a clean, well kept, older plane. Except for a puddle jumper I'd prefer the jetbridge any time. I'll always remember transferring flights decades ago boarding a red-eye in St. Louis in a driving rain. It was so bad they were escorting passengers from the gate to the airstairs. It was so windy I should have been worried, but I 'd just mustered out of the service and noting could spoil that day.
Deliver me from buses to remote stands, they're the worst of all worlds.
In Australia international open 3 hrs domestic 2hrs check in close 1hr prior international 45 min prior domestic
Bording gate close 15 min prior departure ......meaning max in airport building is 2.25 hrs
ive seen leg room but that is rediculous. gotta take a bus and a 737 just to reach the seatback pocket in front of you
def true about boarding via airstairs....absolutely the best way to get on a plane. Jetways take away all the awesome views...tho they are nice when its raining or snowing/cold
As someone who travels for business but is scared of turbulence I can vouch that the 7 am spirits are a necessity rather than a want
Hi Noel, I enjoyed this video as always. However, what puzzles me, if you "grew up" with the 767, as I did with the IL-18, why don't you explore the 767-paradise, Japan ? Three airlines still operate a considerable fleet of 767s, and if you reserve your seat a half a year in advance and plan your trip carefully, you can make deals of 60-70 EUR one way on any of the route network of ANA, JAL or Air Do. The 767s are here for not much longer, since ANA and JAL are now renewing their fleets at an alarming speed. Come over and see my small Aviation Museum at my home in Yokohama and we have a beer (or two) together and you can also enjoy the unmatched beauty and nature of this country.
Spirts with breakfast... You obviously haven't been to weatherspoons
No MAF flight in PNG this time then?
Welcome to Australia. I hope you didn’t cop too much weather while you were here. It’s been a bit wet for us lately.
Noel arriving in Australia for I’m a celebrity get me out of here 😂😂
After a heartfelt love letter to the airplane and Noel saying he will ‘savour every minute on this plane’ can’t help but chuckle to the smash cut of ‘right I’m going to sleep’
I imagine that seat was put there for foreigners who get upset stomachs from the local cuisine (lots of curry) and need to get the he'll out ASAP. Thanks Air Niugini for being thoughtful.
Like a Swiss army knife you don't know you need it until you need it.
Rumours have it, the 767s are being replaced by 330s early next year. Great that you managed to do this review on this legacy aircraft's last legs. Safe skies
P.S they're also looking at replacing their Fokkers
In 1991 you KNOW that plane had one of those 3 CRT projectors and a huge screen. Was there a large blank area somewhere on a bulkhead in front of you?
Great video and seeing interesting airlines keeps me interested.
I might have flown on that same plane given how few they have! Too bad you didn’t get a chance to spend a few days. PNG - not pronounced ping - was an annual stop for me in the early 2000s. Between the Fokker 28s, 100s, and Airlines PNG’s Dash 8, flying was great for an enthusiast like me.
Thanks for flying PX. Looking forward to reboot other interesting airlines.
After seeing "that seat" my immediate thought that it was good that they didn't serve a meal with beans, cabbage or broccoli. Then I saw your breakfast. 🤣🤣🤣
Boarding from the tarmac via stairs for the win!!!! That's how we boarded our return to ORD from LIS on a beautiful TAP A330-900neo a few days ago. Downside is that required a stupid long trip in the bus from the most remote gate at LIS to a parking spot as far as possible from the terminal, and we had to remain on the bus for another 10 minutes while the cleaning crew completed their work.
Just watched this video - brings back memories of the 3 years I spent in POM working for Air Niugini from 2010. I had a laugh with my wife when you said it was a little bit confusing - that's just Papua New Guinea, the land of the unexpected ;)
My first flight ever was with Laker Airways DC10 in 1980 from Gatwick to Oakland and back; followed the next year by Gatwick to LA and back in a British Airtours Lockheed Tristar. My internal flights were all by PSA 727 - there’s a pattern here of three engines! On all occasions, I was seated at the back, so I could smoke. Thankfully I gave up many years ago, but those were the days 😂😂😂
Walking on the tarmac is one of the advantages of flying Ryanair. I never get boarded looking up at these big birds before climbing the stairs.
Ok every time Noel says 767 you've got to drink a shot of Tequila...