- Welcome to Denver in Colorado. hub of course, to United Airlines. And today we're taking
a flight to Los Angeles. But it's not the direct flight, because that'd be far too easy. We're going to be trying out the essential air service
that connects Denver in Colorado with Prescott, Arizona - a little town over in Arizona, and then onwards to Los Angeles. - So we're only flying in coach today, only because I want to get a view of that CRJ200 engine at
the back of the plane. Of course, avgeekness
wins over comfort any day. So I'm not sure whether I can get into the United lounge or not with my Star Alliance Gold Membership, so we'll go and give it a go
and see if they'll let me in. - Hello. Good morning. Can I get in with Star Gold? - Oh, good. Thank you. Here we go. Let me in yay. Some comfort now for a bit. I always find that United lounges, some of the best in the US. There's a good selection of snacks and an open bar. Look at the entire airport though. The lounge was really busy today. I have to say, this is the
busiest airport I've seen since before last March. All right. It's time to head to the gate. She'll be boarding in
about 10 minutes or so. Oh, my masks looks all wonky, doesn't it. Heading to the gate should
be there in a couple of minutes and then boarding
in about 10 minutes. - My ride today was an 18 year old CRJ200 delivered to Sky West in 2003. It operated for Delta until 2020, when she started flying for United. - Do we have any global
service or 1K members? You are also welcome
to board at this time. - Hello - Hello, how are you doing? - I'm good, how are you? - Good. Thank you. Have a good day. - Thank you, you too. - Hello. Hi, how are you doing? - Hello, welcome on board. - Right then, onboard flight one of the essential air service
route down to Prescott. - So I'm going to be connecting
there, it's a little town in Arizona, somewhere heading down to LAX, later on this afternoon
on a CRJ200. Awesome. We can ensure all larger
items do have a place on this aircraft. And ladies and gentlemen,
a little heads up. Its pretty cold out there, we are going to be de-icing today. - The flight down to
Prescott was rammed today. A lot of passengers have been
bumped onto this flight to get to Phoenix. After one of the Phoenix
flights was canceled due to weather. Denver airport is absolutely massive. Stay tuned for a video I
have coming in a couple of weeks time where I'm back here, and I'll be showing you
around this huge airport. We had to de-ice today. So headed down to the
de-icing ramp to get sprayed. - Our first leg today,
then took us southwest across Colorado and into Arizona. Before descending into Prescott. Flight time today was
one hour and 28 minutes, cruising at 30,000 feet. - Soon after take off,
there was a drinks service. - I have to say that the flight attendant
was absolutely lovely on this flight, and took
time to speak to everyone. - Interestingly, the captain
has just come on and gone, 'Oh yeah, I'm just about to turn off the fasten seatbelt sign' Flicked a switch, and it went ding, but he's actually turned
off the no smoking sign. So now, well, we're not
allowed to get out of our seats but we can smoke a cigarette. Yay! I don't smoke, never
smoked, in my life. Ha ha. - Well, bit of bumpy air there. No smoking sign's come back on again. Time to put out those cigarettes hah. It soon got really bumpy, to the extent that the
lovely flight attendant was telling people to open air vents, and reminding people
where the stick bags were which is the first time
that I've ever really had this on a flight. - Once again we do apologize
for this turbulence, and we should have you
all on the ground shortly. - Pretty soon though,
we started our descent into Prescott for our
first stop of the day. - Have a good one, thank
you, watch your head. - Thank you, I'm off to LAX. - Oh you're LAX? Perfect, so he's been looking for you. - Oh, okay. - And he'll tell you where to go! - Okay, perfect. Thank you. See you soon. - Thank you! - LAX thank you! - Do you have a screen tag or anything? - No, just it's checked through, the red one in there. - Come on this way. So if you just go that way,
you'd have to go through TSA. - Here you go sir. - Thank you very much. - You only had one bag, right? - Yeah its the red one on the back there. - Yeah as you can see, its making it. - Its made it all the way, yeah. - Made it all the way
it's two stops in so far. - Good, sir. - Thank you. Prescott airport sees around
24,000 passengers a year with two departures a day
to Denver and Los Angeles on the Sky West flights. Since I filmed this video,
Boutique Air have also started serving Prescott with
two daily flights to Phoenix. There's no restaurant or shop
here, but they do have snacks that you can buy on an honor system just by dropping your money in the box. I have a feeling that
there's not many places in the world that would use
an honor system in an airport. So then on the ground
here in Prescott, Arizona. - Can you keep your mouth
shut for a moment love. - We've got about an
hour here in the airport, before we get back on
board with the same CRJ, you can continue onwards
to, ah, Los Angeles, nice little airport this, actually. - Hello! - All right sir, you have a safe flight. - Thank you very much. Pretty soon though, it was
time to get on board the CRJ for the next leg across to Los Angeles. That was, of course, once the
flight attendants had opened up the curtains to let us all on. - How you doing, you all right? - Right, back on board,
same CRJ, same seats, short hop now across to LAX. Let's roll. - Yeah I didn't understand
a word of that either. To be honest, the flight attendant on this leg couldn't be more of a contrast to the friendly crew on
the previous flights. - I was actually surprised at the contrast between the two flights on the same day and on the same route. The friendly chatty
Southern flight attendants on the first flight and
the second who seemed like she really didn't want to be there. The last flight of the day that took us on a very strange route
in due to the weather. We first flew south to the
Mexican border, then turned west along the border to San Diego, before flying northward
towards Los Angeles. Flight time was one hour and 26 minutes, cruising at 32,000 feet. The usual flight time on
this leg is under an hour. So it took half as long
again as the regular flight. - Now for me as a tall person this is the problem with the CRJ200. And that has the windows
are just so far down. The reason for that is that
the CRJ200 is actually based off of a business jet design,
the Bombardier Challenger and effectively, they just raise the floor so they can fit four passenger seats across which therefore means that the windows are a lot lower down and you get a bit
of crick neck if ever you're trying to look out of the window. Now the CRJ700's, the 900's and 1000's, they don't have that problem
because they were built from the ground up as a
passenger commercial aircraft. So the windows are pretty
much at the same height and the right height that
you'd need, but on the 200 it's always a bit of a squeeze. And I always find myself with
a really sore neck when I get off of one of these, simply because I like looking
out the window. Ha ha. This leg was somehow even
bumpier than the last one. But this time there was no
friendly advice from the crew, who we didn't see, for the
majority of the flight. - Oh my goodness, this flight is so bumpy. Ohh. That is strange. Because normally, when you get bumpy air it doesn't feel that bad, but the CRJ200, it feels really bad. It's actually making me
a little bit queasy and I've barely eaten. Crikey. - Now thanks to the bad
weather that was in the way between Prescott, Arizona and Los Angeles. We're flying really far south, right along the border
between the US and Mexico. And right at this moment in time on this side of the
aircraft, we have the USA and that side of the
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promo code NOELPHILIPS. - The sun started setting
as we made our way up the coast of California to Los Angeles for a beautiful
approach over the city. - Before long, the bright
lights of Los Angeles came into view and we started our descent over the city into Los
Angeles International Airport. - My flight today cost me 261 pounds or 358 US dollars. This works out to a cost
of 29 pence per mile. Considering a direct flight
on a 737 would have cost under a hundred dollars
and taking just two and a half hours, as opposed
to the four it took me. Would you take the CRJ
over the direct flight? Let me know down in the comments. - I'd like to say a big thanks to my Patreons as well today. You can join them at the link on the screen now, to
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weekly zoom call as well as loads of other benefits. Well, here we are then Los
Angeles, great little flight over with United express on
the essential air service. That was pretty cool wasn't
it, seeing Prescott, Arizona? Hope you enjoyed this video. Let me know what you thought to it down below in the comments. In the meantime as always,
thanks for watching. Take care and I'll see
you on the next one. Bye for now.
