Flying a BOEING 737-200 COMBI to a remote Inuit village

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Published 2021-10-17
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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All Comments (21)
  • @dansanger5340
    He wasn't a big fan of the Dash 80, but when the 737-200 came, he was really Inuit.
  • 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!! ✈️
  • This is why you are hands down the BEST YouTube 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.
  • @Pakmann2k
    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!
  • @shewing5649
    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
  • @STORMCLOUDGREY
    What a great flight attendant Phil is. Superb service in difficult circumstances. I do hope his employers realize what an asset he is.
  • @fireflyrobert
    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!
  • "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.
  • @pleblond9372
    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.
  • 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. 🤣
  • @Czechmate823
    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.
  • @danielkelly2774
    *Spends $3000 on the flight to get there * *Spends $250 on 1 night at the hotel * *Gawks at $26 for dinner * 🤣
  • @Nicolaas57
    Noel: 32 CAD for some food: no way! Noel: charter a 1 hour private flight for 5000 Pounds: no problem at all!!!
  • @1nsanejochem
    How cool! And the staff was so welcoming and proud of what they do. A huge farcry from Boutique Air ;-) So cool!
  • @6yjjk
    Love Air Inuit's tail design!
  • @Si1983h
    What a kind and obliging crew, that flight attendant was great!
  • @goat1140
    Fantastic video as always, “further north than Bolton” classic Noel can’t wait for next week.
  • @kurohone
    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!
  • 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.