Flying a BOEING 737-200 COMBI to a remote Inuit village
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2021
- I took a flight on a 40 year old Boeing 737-200 Combi with Air Inuit to spend a night in a remote Arctic Inuit village in the north of Quebec.
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He wasn't a big fan of the Dash 80, but when the 737-200 came, he was really Inuit.
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This is underrated
Good one
Lol
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Never rode a combi but worked with a handful of the last 200s and even a 100 in the late 90s with America West. Flew them a bunch and even was on one for an aborted takeoff with a complete engine failure which a compressor blade broke off and foldded the engine out running down the runway. We affectionately nicknamed them the “silver cigars” because of the engines. The last one to leave service with AWA is was signed by hundreds of employees to send it off. I didn’t work for the airline anymore but was invited down to the ramp to retire the last one and I left my mark before it was sent to become scrap. My record speed, not a pilot, but riding one was 23min phx-las, rumbled and shook like it was gonna fly apart. Awesome!
Noel!! That video is amazing! First and foremost, a huge THANK YOU for that shoutout! I had such a good time with you on that afternoon! And now that I get to see the whole thing, it looks like you had the time of your life!! Your face after that takeoff is priceless!! I really hope that we’ll meet again! Take good care of yourself my friend! Fly safe!! ✈️
Thank you so much for yours and Guillaume's incredible hospitality on the flight! I had the time of my life, you have no idea how long these -200s in Canada have been on my bucket list and you made it a very special day for which I am incredibly grateful. Can't wait to see more adventures on your channel!
Very nice video. Have been on 737-200's in the 1970's, first flight being in 1972. Incredible experience, always.
Cool channel, you have a new subscriber.
I'm a new subscriber too. It's so fun traveling with Noel. I love how he shows us all the details everywhere he goes. It almost feels like I'm there. Keep up the Awesome work!
Subbed and can’t wait to watch your channel 👍🏻 ty Noel fantastic video as always 👍🏻
This is why you are hands down the BEST UA-cam aviation content creator. You take us to places where I want to go but probably never will be able to. Personally I thank you. Your video’s are real, not staged, and it truly makes a huge difference. Keep up the good work and keep taking us to interesting remote places. I truly enjoyed this.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment Keith. Very much appreciate it!
Totally agree.
Well said, Keith. Thanks for these awesome videos Noel!!!!!
@@Invalid.Argument snowflake. only the strong will thrive
@DefyYou I agree about crying babies and children. IMO they should have a designated section for them. Either the baggage hold or wing.
I'm from Quebec city and every week on Mondays I hear a loud plane sound over my house (there isn't a lot of traffic at Jean-Lesage Airport) and everytime I look by curiosity on the flight radar app, it's always a 737-200 that is departing to go up north of Quebec. These small planes are so powerfull
Well, the Noise to Weight ratio is pretty high.
You hear them a lot in Dorval. These planes are really loud
What a great flight attendant Phil is. Superb service in difficult circumstances. I do hope his employers realize what an asset he is.
I don’t know if my employer will see this, but I sure have! Thank you for your kind words! ❤️❤️❤️
@@TheBlizzardFlyer the Phil…???
@@ryanf1425 yep! Im « the Phil » from the video :)
@@TheBlizzardFlyer your a legend bro gives us europeans an insight on what flights are like to remote places
"It's like the most random place ever" 😂 I felt the exact same way when I was there! It's super cool to see your perspective on this trip, especially just a few weeks after I did mine haha.
Was thinking I had just seen another video about this airline and this plane. Very cool.
That’s the first thing I thought when Noel posted this lol..
😆 Watched Alex's a bit ago, a bit different points of view from each. Having been all over Nunavut, the communities in Nunavik seem very similar with some of the same challenges. (except in Nunavut they all have 4G cell service)
Was going through the comments just to see if you had written anything! Sure enough, I was not disappointed. You all rock👏
I haven't seen that video yet Alex. I'll have to take a look.
I'm a retired airline pilot and I can tell you my favourite jet to fly has always been the B737-200.
Those target type thrust reversers are the best - the instant you crack them out you get bags of aerodynamic drag before you even increase the amount of reverse thrust.
Great to see the 737-200 has still got some life left in her!
Thanks for sharing!
We have one at the AMNT school I go to. Absolutely love learning everything there is to know about it.
*Spends $3000 on the flight to get there *
*Spends $250 on 1 night at the hotel *
*Gawks at $26 for dinner *
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Part of that is the Novelty factor though, it's a remote place that probably the vast majority of the population haven't been to, quite probably because there's not much there, so there's no real reason to go.
Nothing novel about eating chicken nuggets however. And paying 26-30 canadian dollars for them is absolutely absurd. Unless the wages for workers over there are sky high, I dread to think how people who live there can afford to eat.
Noel: 32 CAD for some food: no way!
Noel: charter a 1 hour private flight for 5000 Pounds: no problem at all!!!
Our man has solid priorities.
And spends close to 3,000 USD for a round-trip flight in coach to a remote village in Northern Quebec.
Was it $3000 from Montreal?
@@martinwarsaw5762 He originated from Montreal.
@@matthewemm7787 I’d be willing to wager he’s making pretty good money from UA-cam.
Noel, you are also correct! I also love the "thrust reversers" on the 200. The DC-9 and other variants also had this, and for years they used to back away from airport gates without a tug.
I love walking to my palace's food court every morning to get some coffee at Starbucks. It's a nice and hot wake up call to get me going for the busy day ahead. I mean I'm not called the Supreme Leader for nothing. And you know where you're at is isolated when you have to wait for water...hope to cross Canada off my list some day!
You’re leader of best Korea
In Quebec everything has to sound more french than french, even if the brand's name is not. After le café starbucks next stop is "le poulet frit du Kentucky" aka KFC. 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂 sadly true
I can just hear "Popeye's" in french or "Jack dans la boîte" (Jack in the Box).😂
@@1blisslife Popeye's doesn't really exist in Quebec. That's Saint Hubért.
If Earth is so vast and beautiful, much less Heaven. Praise God Almighty for his marvellous works.
I am not ashamed to exalt his holy name. I admire watching downward from 33 thousand feet. I can die for my God. I've travelled a bit also and admire flying over those deep and vast Oceans. Praise God.
Thanks, Quebecois language laws.
I bet the Café doesn’t make the Starbucks tastes any better!
Not Tim's? That name doesn't change
Love Air Inuit's tail design!
Me too! It’s one of my favourites!
What a kind and obliging crew, that flight attendant was great!
Fantastic video as always, “further north than Bolton” classic Noel can’t wait for next week.
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As an aviation enthusiast, avgeek and plane freak I watch a lot of these types of video. I really appreciate that you seem to do this for the love of flying. I have taken a flight just because I felt like flying and had an afternoon to kill. A lot of other people doing these types videos come off as entitled show offs and just want perks. Thank you for this.
This is exactly why I watch these videos. Dude enjoys the shit out of it.
I like to call Montreal, French New York City. Montreal and Manhattan are both islands, they're about the same age (Montreal founded in 1642; while the Dutch first settled on Manhattan in 1624), both have convenient transit systems, both have plenty of American brands like McDonald's, Starbucks, Wendy's, and Burger King, both have their own circuses (Big Apple Circus and Cirque du Soleil) and both cities love their bagels.
Yup, NYC isn't the only bagel city! Montreal bagels are sweeter (since they're boiled in water with honey) and are cooked in wood-fire ovens and thus they're crunchier. Like how Jewish refugees from Poland brought their bagels to NYC and popularized them, other Jewish refugees from Poland did the same when they immigrated to Montreal. And now the cities have a bagel rivalry.
I see you everywhere lol
Montreal bagels are the best, although Iven never tried a NYV bagel.
40 years old, but what a marvel of technology and engineering that plane is.
How cool! And the staff was so welcoming and proud of what they do. A huge farcry from Boutique Air ;-)
So cool!
Nice to see another flight vlogger heading up to the Far North. Even for us Canadians it can be a pretty big culture shock when going that far north; it was nice to get a glimpse of what it's like for someone from Europe!
It’s northern Quebec not the far North. But still appreciate that he made that effort.
Fun fact. Starbucks basically went of of business in Sweden as they did serve worse "coffee" than all other places that have been here for decades. They entered the market with a big party but silently escaped through the back door a few years later.
It’s amazing how vast Canada is that you can go on a 5 hr flight and still be in Quebec - that wobbled my head!
I’d love to go there just to have 24 hours away from the internet!
Last time I was in a 737-200, I was on the flight deck - we’d turned up at wrong airport, Heathrow instead of Gatwick - ba were awesome, my mum had been cabin crew on type, so the captain let her go jump seat in flight deck. She said captain invited me up to flightdeck for landing so long as I promised to not say anything once they started descent as they’d both be really busy. They were great as they involved me by telling me whatever they were doing whenever they could, and once they’d parked at stand, got chance to sit in the captains chair, and both pilots and cabin crew posed for a photo at top of aircraft steps with me too. Always had a soft spot for ba and 737-200 ever since.
And starting this winter there’s a fibre optic wiring that has been run and high speed Internet will be coming to all these communities soon
Sterile cockpit what? Lol
Living in Spain in the very early 1980’s we used to fly these back and forth the the uk with my mum and dad to see family. Just as a side, any of you remember the Spanish airline Aviaco? We flew with them lots too. As a 8 year old the compulsory can of beer and cheese sandwich (not in a wrapper but just piled up and passed by hand from the crew to the aisle passenger to the middle passenger and finally to you) was always something to look forward too. No water no tea beer or nothing . Still made me the man I am today lol😉
Sure, flew Aviaco out of AGP to Mallorca and also once MAD to Mallorca. Memories!
Canada is so lucky to own these old, but gold 737-200s! Planes made in these good ol' days seem better and more memorable than what we have today! Also, Air Philippines used to have these kinds of aircraft until 2009 when they were retired as they were rebranded as PAL Express, changed into Airphil Express in 2010, and then back to PAL Express with all assets integrated into Philippine Airlines twice in 2009 and 2013.
The problem is that after all those years we (as in humans) pretty much figured the optimal way to build subsonic jetliner. We more-or-less nailed the optimal hull shape and wing angle, and we definately got the configuration right: two high-bypass turbofans under low wing, classic tail. And we can build them as Small as Embraer E-170 and as large as Boeing 777. So the variety dies, as everyone drops suboptimal designs wherever they can. In the end this leads to various planes looking like one another more and more. In the past still developing engine tech, lack of ETOPS and experimentaiton to find the optimal setup led to mych more varied, and in turn memorable designs.
Fabulous job Noel. I think that the impeccable service of this flight attendant and his reference to you as a "guest" instead of a passenger are commendable. I truly enjoy your travels. Be safe.😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Grate video, but just a remark, you have to get quite a bit more north in order to pass the artic circle. Puvirnituq is located approximately on the 60:th latitude, that the same as the finish capital of Helsinki in Europe. The artic circle is located approximately on 66°latitude. 😉
Even Iqaluit, NU is south of the arctic circle.
It's about the latitude of Seward, Alaska, about 100 miles south of Anchorage as the crow flies . Still nice to go to some of the more baren areas of North America. Good film, Noel!
Welcome to Canada! Forget Café Starbucks.. we are running on Tim Hortons!
I agree
You mean ‘Le Tim Hortons’?
@@noelphilips Oui..🤣
Omg, 43 minutes absolutely flew [!?] by, that was so fascinating. That crew was SO nice to let us see so much!
I AGREE WITH YOUR HUNDREDS OF COMMENTORS WHO THANK YOU FOR TAKING US TO SEE PLACES WE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE BUT NEVER WOULD HAVE. THE DESOLATE BEAUTY OF MY MEMORY OF FLYING OVER GREENLAND HAUNTS ME DECADES LATER WITH ITS ENDLESS MASSIVE OPEN SPACE. STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL IS PLANET EARTH.
Such a great video, Noel!! 20 years ago I flew the 200 series as a flight attendant, that noise, that rumbling, the stiffness are so remarkable!!
Thank you for bringing back amazing memories! 🙏🏻
As a Montrealer, thank you for enlightening the rest of the world to our silly language laws. It's funny and sad at the same time.
yeah Montreal is a piece of shit trash town
I got beat up as a 7 yo kid in your fair city because I could not speak French and I used the playground outside our hotel as a English speaker. Hard to understand Rocky and Bullwinkle in French too.
@@AndrewTubbiolo it's not in french it's in québécois even as a frenchman i have trouble with understanding them ,espercailly in the remote places along the st Lawrence river !! LOL
@@dazlebluefrogify Thanks for that insight.
They wann it that way - they do it that way. OK with me.
I flew on a Canadian North 737-200C a couple of years ago. It was a great flight and well worth the detour to the Arctic North. I love the 732. Such a cool looker, and built like a tank.
Went to Montreal in 2019. They seemed to be rebuilding all the highways at once. It was chaos! Also was astonished to find Walmart shuts at 5pm on a Saturday. Unbelievable. On the other hand I had the best Moules et Frites ever in my life.
Canada can do better for our northern communities. The cost to purchase life necessities is not only astounding, it's an embarrassment on a global scale. I enjoy your videos. They educate and inform.
$10 for the juice is probably a good thing... its all unhealthy sugar for the most part :)
just searched the cost of flights, and it's almost $2000.... ONE WAY. for a 3 and a half hour flight! while I understand such low demand routes are typically expensive anywhere, Canada certainly tops the world in cost of air travel.
and this is considering such routes are usually subsidized by the government! no idea what kind of salary these folk make up north, but with such prices I wonder how integrated they can really be...
I wonder in a remote community like that I wonder how much would a Can of Coke or Pepsi would cost
@Toby Rix no, because the communities are so far north
@@gman83090 I work up here $ 2.25 a can It’s all shipped up in sea cans usual by the end of spring early summer they’ve run out of pop in a lot of the communities. Waiting for the ice to melt and the next sea lift.
That’s very cool. I recall flying the 200 series many times in my (much) younger days.
I recall watching a video on a freight airline in Northern Canada some time ago and they used the 737-200 too. The reasoning was that the lower slung engines on the 300 and up models were close to the gravel and would suck up a lot of sand and stones.
They have an air "puffer" system in front of the engines that blow a jet of air to deflect any debris (gravel/sand) as the planes are landing. (can be seen at 24:45 just under and in front of the engine cowel
Wow, havent seen the old clamshell reversers in ages! The plane from the past I would love to get on would be a DC-9, love the dramatic spool up sound when takeoff commences.
Fun fact, the DC-9-10, DC-9-15 & DC-9-30 all used the same engines as the 737-200 except for the fact that the engines were mounted on the fuselage at the rear behind the passengers so the cabin was MUCH quieter than the 737-200.
Absolutely the best! I flew for so many years on the 737-200, it was nice to see a surviving member of the class! Thanks, Noel.
What a great video! Such an awesome crew from Air Inuit!
You had an amazing crew on the B737-200 flight.
He did! 😉
Ah, I love it when I get notified of a new Noel Philips video. A great video as always. Thanks for flying us around the world, Noel :-)
I really enjoy this kind of content! Noel, you might be my favorite travel content creator! I love how you travel to all these remote and unknown places. It's super cool, and it gives them some very needed recognition. On top of that, I find your way of covering your travels very authentic and entertaining! Keep up the good work!
idk why i absolutly love the shot at 30:37 it looks so good with the view thru the window and how u can partially see the wing just fantastic! and the musc fits so well too
Great crew! Glad you enjoyed the Canadian hospitality!
Awesome that you got to experience Air Inuit and Nunavik. Cool to see you flying in Canada and looking forward to more videos from this trip! I'd suggest you try Canadian North up to Iqaluit (YFB) as well sometime, unfortunately it'll be on a 737-300 or -400 but at least it won't cost $2000 !
Great video as always, Noel. And your Loo review animation is fantastic! Quick, but very original and creative. The toilet Sound effect takes it to another level. Makes me smile every time.
Noel is the best, so informative and a genuinely enthusiastic authentic aviation geek. You deserve all the luck.
I flew on the '200' many, many times in the 80's on business; I remember seeing my first '300' back then with those clunky-looking flat-bottomed engines. I still think this is the most attractive model of 737. Thanks for showing it!
43 minutes with Noel? Could only be better if the whole family were there!
What a wonderful jet that 737-200 is. Thanks for taking us along, Noel.
The last Boeing I was on, was a 707, New York to Zurich, back in 1965.
4:50 the bucket thrust reversers, always so cool
And it has the original “airspace” overhead bins that were introduced in 1970 to replace the open hat-racks
And what an amazing set of people for the company they work for - great people especially the so called flight attendant who is really a brand ambassador - epic job
Glad you got this one documented! I flew on a few 737- 200's way back in the mid 80's as a kid. Didn't know there were any still in the air. Super cool to see one again. Love the roar and especially the landing thrusters. This plane definitely got me into being a travel enthusiasts as a kid
What a great channel. I have been watching these almost exclusively while working in the office. I have never been airborne before but but seeing all of these great adventures it adventures makes me want to pick a random spot on the map every week and just take off! love the content!
Like a kid in a candy store !! I love the enthusiasm on board the 737-200 and what a great crew giving you such access. HOWEVER, I was dismayed and frankly, astonished, that you would reference (more than once) that you were "far north of the Artic Circle". You were actually in Northern Quebec. :-)
OMG, so cool...glad you went in summer! I saw the engine intakes covered to keep the dust and dirt out of the engine, neat. I hope that cargo is strapped down tight!! All those Southwest flights in the 1980's, I had no idea how really cool the 200 was....I was always hoping for a new 500! Lol
Thanks for a great video, I first travelled on a 737 / 200 (Britannia Airways) in 1986, I had a window seat and when them buckets came over the back of the engines I thought my time was up, lol,
Super cool video. I loved your enthusiasm for the old jet and I'm glad you got to experience some Canadian hospitality. Kudos to the crew.
Awesome video, my first flights were on 737-200's, still remember the cool clamshell reversers coming out!
As others have stated… please don’t FF the take-off footage, especially when you’re travelling in such old aircraft. We’re more than happy to watch the full Take-Off run. Great video , and very interesting places, and extremely friendly and helpful crew.
👍👏ESPECIALLY a ✈ not likely to be ever flown...
The way the crew treated you was fantastic! I love when flight and cabin crews are wholly and entirely supportive of me geeking out. Glad you got that experience on an aircraft you were so excited about. What an experience! Cheers!!
Great job Noel. I love the coverage of the 737 and the important link that the airline provides. The reverse thruster on the 737 is pretty cool, I've also been on 727 and they also use the same mechanism.
I've seen places like Puvirnituq on those Ice shows (Truckers, remote survivals, etc) but never considered going to them. Thanks for the tour and enjoyed the 737-200/Combi for sure. Only $225/night and $30 for chicken nuggets. Haha. Makes California seem cheap.
Absolutely wonderful! I have logged so much passenger time on C-GSPW along with C-GOPW and C-GDPA while they were owned by Canadian North (DPA still flies for them).
Fun fact: these 737's are 200C (C for combi), furthermore they are 275C models.
Thanks for the great experience, Noel!
Hey Aaron! I guess you might be happy to know that OPW now also found a home with Air Inuit quite recently :) but these days, she’s flying as a cargo only plane :)
@@TheBlizzardFlyer at least she is flying! Thanks 😃
Actually SPW and OPW were Pacific Western Airlines which became Canadian Airlines which at the merger were sold to Canadian North which was acquired by the current owners. I logged time as a pilot in them at Canadian Airlines. My dad, MOT along with PWA Chief pilot and the Boeing Chief pilot test flew the combi with nose deflectors and engine deflection probes back int the 70s.
Living in a big city in Canada, I always forget how large Canada is and some of the remote areas people live. Watching this video was a great experience and reminds me of how a lot of people live in the Canadian north. Great video Noel, can wait to see you on the next one!
Noel, you are the best aviatoin you tuber. You rarely fly first class and do things any geek wants to see.
Very friendly crew- How Canadian!
When in Canada, the coffee shop you should be using is Tim Horton’s. Much prefer them to Starbucks. Better coffee too. 😉☕️😋
They have a Tim Horton's in Bury, which is almost as North as Bolton .....😀
😂 You gotta be kidding me!… That’s worse than Dunkin' Donuts which is worse than Starbucks!
this is one of the best aviation videos on youtube for sure. seeing such a friendly and inviting flight crew makes my heart lurch, it's so exciting.
Good to see you buy New Zealand beef jerky I love Jacks Link's beef jerky that is the best in the world and of course it's made here in New Zealand.
Fantastic report. As an aviation geek, the video is so cool, but also the places you go are a great geography/history lesson too.
Thanks a ton!
Hi Noel, I stumbled across your channel by chance and ended up watching a few videos. I'm not an avid aviation fan by any means, I just see flying as a form of transport and nothing else, but you sir, are very informative and entertaining hence why I am now a subscriber and have binged your channel. Congratulations on your great attitude and content. Thank you.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching!
You look so happy and excited flying the 732!!! The state of the cabin is really amazing , so neat and spacious!!! What an adventure you had there mate:) Awesome video!!! Regards from Cyprus:)
Thank you so much for introducing us to this very remote region. Places a lot of us would never know anything about it. Definitely does increase the interest, at least to me, in going to visit such places!
Any time!
Montreal is my hometown -- glad you visited, and that you touched on one of the linguistic peculiarities in the province of Quebec. Bill 101, the language law, requires most commercial signs and names to be in French. What's a solution for a chain like Starbucks? Add a French word in front of the name. If you wanted to open a pet shop called The Pet Shop, you could probably get away with calling it Le Pet Shop. :)
Forgot to mention his mispronounced name of the province.
Hi there from Montreal! My husband and I would have loved to bump into you to say hello in the Place des arts and Cafe Starbucks area :) we actually work not far from the DoubleTree hotel(?) and were pleasantly surprised to recognize the place :) Anyho, great shout out to Air Inuit and their amazing 737-200!
Great video. Always been fascinated by combi aircraft. Flying KLM’s 747 combi has always been a bucket list item for me.
Absolutely superb as always! Noel, what being is such diversity and variety. Never boring, never repetitive. Fab!! Keith
In Canada if your up North the stores are more expensive because it’s harder to get all the food medical etc compared to down near southern Canada it’s easier and more populated compared to up north.
Whenever I have just taken off and do a fly past over the airport just departed from, I always feel a little bit sad. I think I'm going to miss everything fun and busy that is going on there for the rest of the day. Suspect that I'd have made a good airport worker....
Noel. Great video as always. As a Yorkshire man with family in Lincoln it’s great to see a local lad showing off the world and all of these unique places. Now living in Colorado, USA I can’t complain how amazing it is here but I would do your job in a heart beat! I can’t get enough of planes and I also once flew on a BA 737-200 back in the 90s.
I did my fair share of medivacs on the combi jet. My first job as a nurse was on the Arctic Coast of Alaska in 1989. I would be hanging drips and checking vital signs. Meanwhile, all around me and my patient, the oil workers returning to Anchorage after two weeks of work and no alcohol would be slamming back drinks as fast as possible. It was like being in the Twilight Zone. I'm so glad to see the combi jet is still being flown. It's a real workhorse. I love the loo review. Keep it up!
28:51 One of my earliest aviation memories took place when I was 7 or 8 years old and flew in one of these 737 in the early 80s. Sometime during the night flight condensation started to come out of the AC "gaspers" and many passengers turned on the square overhead lights next to them. I'll never forget the scene. The fogged up cabin lit by dozens of tiny light beams looked straight out of a Steven Spielberg movie
Another great video mate, we don’t have Starbucks in Perth Australia or in Australia all together, hopefully see you flying down under again after all this Covid crap has finished
You're not missing out mate. I'm sure Australia has better coffee shops
Definitely do on the east coast, but you’re not missing anything fancy!
Awesome Video Noel! Love your videos. This brings back memories of my previous flights on the 737-200 when I was a teenager in the 90s, mostly flying around the Eastern US on USAir. Such a unique aircraft with the JT8D engines and the one of a kind thrust reverser.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I used to fly as a passenger on 737-200 Combies between Anchorage and King Salmon, Alaska, back in 1977 on Wein Air Alaska. It really is an awesome airplane. This video brought back a lot of memories. Thanks.
Noel, figure the prices on that store are in Canadian Dollars or Loonies, as they call them (at mid October 2021 1 C$ = U$0.81) and knowing that the expense of shipping everything by air, like on similar remote locations in Alaska - US videos, makes most non-refrigerated / frozen products 60-100% more expensive than in US or Canadian larger cities (100-200% for refrigerated / frozen items).
There maybe a couple of items that their prices seem out of whack, but otherwise it is what I'd expected...
Wonder if Noel checked out the price of a gallon of milk or a liter of fuel!! Those will certainly cause heart attacks!!! Lol
@@alaskan3304 - he didn't mention the price of "a bag of milk" (I suppose those were 2L big), which were shown once in the video, but I remember he was shocked.
@@brianevans656 - you explained it wonderfully. It sounds like the British calling the Pound Sterling a "quid". (not a bad term, just what they use)
You only state the colloquial term for one or a few units, but for more than that you go to the full term.
We were able to use the “loonies” in many of businesses near the Alaskan/Canadian border. Not sure if they still are but it was convenient back in the day.
@@alaskan3304 - it was even more convenient when C$ were U$0.70 or so, on which you could get a discount most of the time coming from a U$ area.
But now at U$0.81 / C$ not so much...
Remember first seeing the thrust reverser on the 73-2 coming into Birmingham 1981 sat at the back, people thinking something had fallen off the engine 😂
Love the way you are proper enthusiastic about this flight and love the way the crew make a fuss of you, superb.
Glad you enjoyed it!
About 1986 or so I flew a Wein AirAlaska 737-200 into King Salmon AK, King Salmon had a long asphalt strip as it had a F15 squadron there to intercept TU-95 Bears over the Bering Sea. The return flt. to Anchorage stopped in Dillingham, short gravel strip, I think the pilot firewalled it on take off. I've never felt that much acceleration on a commercial fit. Also flew a Wein 737-200 Combi from Kenai AK to Seattle sitting as you did behind a cargo wall. Enjoy seeing places I will never go to.
Awesome crew! So good when crew recognise an aviation nerd and give them an epic experience!
I haven’t been on a -200 since I think 1988 and 1991… Both Air Malta. Don’t remember too much detail, I was only 18 months and 3-4 year old 😂
But those first flights sparked my love of aviation, never looked back since.
Great video. What an amazing crew. It must be difficult for the remote communities to actually use these flights when they are so expensive.
I would imagine that local communities would have their flights subsidised, either by local or regional government, whereas visitors will be charged full whack. I know that applies in some countries, but whether it applies in Canada, or in that part of Canada, I don't know for sure.
Great Video! Good memories of my two last 737-200 flights in 1999 an 2001 come up. It was with Olympic Airways in 1999 from Hellinikon to Corfu and in 2001 from Corfu to Elifterios Venizelos. In 1999 an old lady was sitting next to me and she started praying when the reverser and the engine roared at the landing.
What an amazing airline! The crew are the best, friendly, down-to-earth, and chatty! These guys could train the crew of other airlines how to do their jobs. Bravo Air Inuit!
So cool as a canadian its fascinating to see a whole different culture in ones own country. I was wondering if you can repeat this video in the middle of winter. Cool
Never been on first class, a few times on business class and mostly on coach class.
Quite honestly, I won't be feeling happy spending $10,000 on a single trip.., but I sure do feel happy donating $50,000 to poor Native American communities here in Northern California in the past decade after living out of their native motherland my whole life.
Looks the same, only all white and crisp.
@@thykingdomcome7238 You, sir, are a saint!
It's still Starbucks, no one here calls it Cafe Starbucks.
Kinda like Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC state side and PFK in Quebec 😂😂
This is why Noel is my favourite UA-camr.. just love these mini adventures to places I can only dream of visiting. Slightly alarming though when we talk of 40 yr old planes then realise that was only 1980! I’m getting old 😂 He is living the dream and taking us all with him..love it!
Possibly the best video you've done so far. I like to keep up with your travels, but stuff like this and the random developing country airlines are what keeps me subscribed. Hope you can find more flights like this (but cheaper) to keep showing us!
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