- This week, I board a
plane in a very unique way. Ride on a delightfully filthy plane. This is so bad. And experience an airline
that doesn't perform even basic safety checks. How many people don't have
their seat belts on right now? As I take a ride across the Atlantic on the national airline
of Algeria, Air Algerie. Oh, hello, bonjour, and sacre
bleu from Montreal in Canada. And. Do I have a treat in store today, because today, I'm off to Algeria. So my flight today is with Air Algerie, who are the national airline of Algeria, and they fly several times a week up here to Montreal in Canada, which is why we've had to come
here to get a ride on them. Hello, how are you? - [Baggage Checker] Hello. - [Noel] Thank you. - You have only carry-on? - [Noel] Just carry on please, yeah. Thank you. - You're at 53. - [Noel] Okay, perfect. - This is for Montreal Algiers. - [Noel] Okay. - This one is for Algiers per Sutherland. - [Noel] Wonderful, thank you very much. Thank you. - And you have access to the lounge. - [Noel] Okay. Which lounge, sorry? Okay. Bank National, okay. Perfect. All right. - Have a nice flight. - Thank you, have a good day. Well, that was easier than
I thought it might be. We're all checked in now for Air Algerie. We're heading off to Algiers in Algeria, and then onwards to Europe from there. But for now, we have to
deal with airport security, so let's go and get through security, and find somewhere to wait. We've got about an hour
or two until the flight. So we've got a little bit of time. Let's see what's there. Oh, you know this place
is bringing back memories. I remember living in this
bit of the terminal building when I did my flying to the
USA for 37 pounds challenge a couple of years ago, and
I came in through Montreal. Remember eating poutine in one of these establishments down here. No time for poutine today, though. So I'm gonna go see if
we can get some poutine airside though, let's see. Hello, business class. Thank you. All right, thank you. - Bonjour, how is it? - [Noel] Bonjour. - Do you speak English or French? - [Noel] English, please. - English, okay. Business. Okay, so come in first. - [Noel] All right. Yeah, thank you. - So put your baggages on the table. - Yeah. Security at Montreal wasn't
that straightforward. There's a pre-security check
where you get your bags checked and only then can you proceed
to the actual security point to get a search once again, which seemed like a
particularly convoluted way of doing it all, really. Finally through security here at Montreal. It's really intense security here. Dunno whether it's because
I'm going to Algeria or what it is, but there's like two
separate security screens. You have one where they
go through your bag and swab everything, then
you have a second one and then they took my suitcase
full of clothes out as well to go through that as well with a swab. I don't know. Anyway, the good news is
we are through finally to the holy grail, the sacred space that airside at Montreal Airport. They've let me through so
let's go and find the lounge. I'm looking for the Bank National Lounge I think he said when I checked in. So let's go and see if
we can get in there. The Bank National Lounge
is on the way down towards the gates and
actually, it wasn't too far for me to walk once I
left the lounge later. Thank you. - You're so welcome. Thank you very much, sir, welcome, enjoy. - [Noel] All right, thank you. Well, I made it to the lounge at Montreal. This is the Bank National Lounge, which is like a contract
lounge I would say, it's quite bright and airy. It's a nice design, not
much selection of food. Best thing I've got is vegetarian chili and some nacho chips which are dunno, to get me through to the flight to, can't imagine the food on Air Algerie's gonna
be brilliant either. All right, then time to head to the gate. I am so excited about
flying on Air Algerie, I've been wanting to fly
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for a bit of a treat. It turned out that Air Algeria were parked on a remote stand, which
meant I got to try out a really unique way of boarding the plane. Here at Montreal they
have these sky lounges which attach to the terminal,
then drive across the airport to the aircraft on remote
stands, there's only a couple of airports worldwide that
have this between Montreal and Washington Dulles
Airport down in the US. So this is pretty cool, isn't it? This is one of the people mover things they've got here in Montreal. Never been on one of these
before, seen them before. It's like a gate, like a
bus that sort of attaches to the terminal and then
it sort of lowers down, takes you across, and then
lifts you up onto the plane. How cool is this? It's like a bus gate but you've
actually left the terminal. You stay just in this point here. So cool. Pretty soon the doors were closed and the lounge was lowered to drive across the airport to the plane. I thought it was pretty interesting that these things get a taxi clearance and drive along the actual taxiways rather than the airport roads, presumably because of the size of them. Eventually, though, we were
pulling up to our aircraft, this 9-year-old Airbus A330-200 that was originally delivered
new to Air Algerie in 2015. As the lounge was raised
up to the aircraft door, I got a really unique view of
the Airbus out of the window, which is a view that you don't often get while you're boarding. As I got on board the A330, I was about to get my first interaction with the Air Algerie crew, which was, let's just say a little bit one-sided. I had to wait to get to my seat, thanks to some cabin crew
having a conversation and blocking the aisle and
then when they'd finish they simply pushed me out of the way to get back to their respective galley, which wasn't a great first impression. Eventually, though, I made it to my seat in time for takeoff. All right, welcome on board
Air Algerie Airbus, A330-200. This is pretty cool. That has to be as well,
the coolest boarding thing I've ever had on that little bus thing. How cool is that? Such a good idea. I know they've got 'em in Washington DC but I've never actually
seen one before in use. I didn't think they still
use them but clearly, they still do here in Montreal. Anyway, it's quite a nice seat actually. This is in a 1-2-1,
lie-flat seats either side and yeah, a little sort
of cubby suite thing. We've got a nice big TV here. We've got controls for the seat over here. There's a remote control. We've got USB socket here. We've got three pin plugs just here. Headphone outlet as well. Pretty decent. Looking forward to this actually. Should be a nice ride across the Atlantic. I think it's about eight
hours or so across to Algiers and then we've got a connection, who knows how that's gonna go, and then another flight
up to Paris from there. But we'll focus on this one first. There's another call bus
coming, I've gotta video it. As we waited for the rest
of the passengers to board, I was given a glass of something
again with no communication other than it just
being placed by my seat. At this point, I realized I
hadn't had a single conversation with any member of cabin crew
since I got on the plane. But it was quite a nice drink though. And before too long the last
passengers were on board and it was time to push back from the gate and get on our way across the Atlantic. Our route tonight then took
us east out of Montreal towards Newfoundland,
then across the Atlantic, coasting in over northwest Spain. Then we flew over Madrid
and across the Mediterranean into Algeria with a flight
time tonight of six hours and 46 minutes cruising at 39,000 feet. All right then, airport from Montreal via Air Algerie, I have to say
so far the flight's not bad. The seat's okay, it's a little bit tired, a little bit battered. The service not been brilliant so far. I mean, obviously, when
we boarded the flight it took me about 10
minutes to get to my seat 'cause the cabin crew were
busy gabbing in the aisle. They've still not collected
my pre-takeoff glass either. So yes, I'm not one to complain. I'm just noting differences
here because usually they've come around and
collect these before takeoff. Not even seen the cabin crew, did not welcome me on board
apart from giving me that drink and they've not spoken anything
other than French so far. Even the safety demo wasn't in English, it was just in French,
which is again, is fine. They're a French-speaking airline. I understand all this but it's just interesting the differences between them, Air Algerie, and
perhaps some other airlines. That's all really. But anyway, we are airborne. We've got about seven hours I think, to run across the Atlantic. So not a lot of time to
sleep on this flight. Dunno what the food
service is gonna be like, how long that's gonna take to serve. But we'll figure that one out 'cause I'd like to try and get the dinner and then try and get
some rest for a few hours before we pull into
Algerie in the morning. The other interesting thing by the way is that I appear to be sat in an exit row because there is this in my seat, which describes what I need to do to open the emergency exit, which is actually just in front of me, just behind that wall, just there. So because I'm standing in exit row, usually they have to come round
as well before you take off and tell you about
opening the emergency exit and make sure you're okay
with that, all the rest of it. Nothing like that either,
which is interesting. So I'm not entirely sure if
this is an exit row or not. I think it is. There's an exit row safety card. That just say I need to be reseated if I don't want to do the emergency exit. So I think I'm in an exit row but there's been no
communication from anybody about me being in an exit
row, if that makes sense. Again, interesting. As is often the case,
once you get airborne you start to notice just how
clean the aircraft isn't. And Air Algerie's A330 was, well, let's just say disgusting. The air vents were coated in dust and nine years of coffee stains, or at least I hope it was coffee stains. The compartment for the
life jacket was filthy and falling apart and
it seemed that the cabin hadn't seen a duster since
the date was delivered. The in-flight entertainment
did have a few movies and TV shows to watch though. And interestingly, it
had an external camera, albeit just in the straight-down position. So we have an immunity kit to go through. So let's have a little look at what we get in the Air Algerie immunity kit. It's quite a nice bag actually. It's got like the Air Algerie logo on it. Nice little carrying handle as well. So what we got inside, I
mean that's quite a nice, I'll show you how that opens up. There's like a little pouch
at the top with bits in there. Let's see what there is. Like what contents do we get? It's a nice Air Algerie eye mask. That's nice. That's pretty cool. We get some cool Air Algerie socks. We get a shaving set, earplugs,
interesting in a plastic. We get a dental kit, we get a shoehorn. Interesting. I was watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm", which is where I get all of
my interesting facts from, you know, 'cause it's
like that sort of show. And he was saying in that show,
and I dunno how true it is, that over the years the
human hand has evolved because in the past you
used to use shoehorns to put your shoes on. Now, you always put your
fingers in the back of your shoe and apparently, over the years, people have done that so much
that your hand has evolved to be the shape of a shoehorn. Look, with your fingers bent like that and apparently, your fingers
being bent like that, that's evolution in progress. Or so according to Larry David, anyway. I'm not quite sure how true that is but I think it could very
well be true, couldn't it? The table was soon prepared for dinner complete with the flight
attendant's facial hair, or rather I hoped to was just facial hair but I tried not to think about that and rather focused on the pile
of trash that was mounting up that hadn't been collected yet. All right, so the dinner
service has arrived. I have no idea what it is. I was just handed a tray. There is no choice of food. You get what you're given and like it or lump it on Air Algerie. And that the piece de resistance is whatever is in this tray. So let's have a look
and see what's in here. We've got some like salad bits, there's some cheese and
crackers, there's a warm cob which is quite nice and a couple of like
desserty bits there as well. But let's have a look. It's like opening a
mystery prize, isn't it? Okay, it's meat of some description. It looks very dry but equally
it smells very well done. By that I mean burnt, it
smells like burnt toast. And let's see what it tastes like. Well, the taters taste
okay, they're all right. It tastes like leftover pork. It's like you know when you
have pork for a Sunday dinner and you sort of reheat it the next day when there's been a bit leftover. It's a little bit like that, sort of reminiscent of sort
of Christmas day dinners, maybe Sunday dinners back in England, round a warm fire eating
your leftovers the next day. A nostalgic taste. Yeah. We got some rubbery beans
as well to go down with it. This is so bad, it tastes so disgusting. I'm sorry Air Algerie,
and I know you try hardest but yeah, I'm just looking
forward to the cheese I think. I don't think you can mess
up cheese too much can you? It's time for the Noel Philips Loo Review. All right then, the Air Algerie loo review and it's actually not
too bad given the state of the rest of the aircraft
and how dirty it seems to be. The toilet isn't too bad really, this is the one at the
front just by the cockpit, just outside, we've got
a baby changing table, some spare loo roll down
there at the toilet. And all down here we've got the sink and everything pretty nice, some nice little mirror there as well. No telephones in the toilet. You can't sit on the
loo and browse Reddit, not on Air Algerie at least
because it's forbidden. And then we've got whatever
that thing is there. But yeah, actually, not
too bad, I have to say. Slightly battered, again, interestingly, just opposite this toilet, there is like a crew rest area and they've left the door open. It's interesting, you can see in, it's all carpeted around the walls. I'm not gonna film that there because it's probably not gonna be very, it's probably gonna be a bit frowned upon. But you can see inside the crew rest area and they've got like beds in
there and like carpeted walls. It's quite nice, very bougie. Anyway, I'm gonna get back to me seat. Here's a little tip for you that I've just learned
recently on TikTok by the way, whenever you've got the bin like that, the trash can just
there, a push to dispose. I always hate going, oh,
I don't wanna touch it. Well, down there on the floor
you have a little pedal. "Hello, I'm a waste disposal unit. Oh, please feed me." Isn't that cool? I never knew that. We just found it out. Anyway, let's get back to me seat. That was the Noel Phillips Loo Review. So dinner was about an hour
ago and my tray is still here waiting to be collected. I'm just gonna chuck it
across the other side. I've even put me hot towel,
which is now a cold towel, and a dry towel, and my
pre-take-off drink cup as well. It's all still on here so I'm just gonna pop
it over there I think. There's nobody on the middle seat so I'm gonna put it over there I think. There we go. Honestly, when I first
got on board Air Algerie, I was a little bit nervous that the crew might not be very happy
about me taking videos, and photos, and stuff. Sometimes these North African airlines, well, they can be a little
bit difficult to film on. They don't tend to like
people waving cameras around. But honestly, the crew's been that absent I think they barely know they've
got any passengers on board let alone somebody that's
making videos and stuff on the flight as well. It's honestly, I'm not complaining because it's quite laughable actually. Honestly, it is quite laughable, isn't it? Anyway, we are over
the Atlantic Ocean now. I'm gonna try and put
my bed down in a minute, try and get a little bit of rest. We arrive like five hours into Algeria. We've got a whacking
great tailwind tonight. So hopefully, I'm gonna
get a little bit of rest before we land down into Algiers. All right, I've put the flatbed down. It's actually quite spacious. It's one of these sort of
reverse pairing boom types that you get with your little cubby hole with your head at the top. Plenty of room for me at six foot four, six foot five, whatever I am today. There's no bedding or anything though. You don't get like
anything other than this. It's like a really flimsy
sheet, blanket thing out of a plastic bag. That's all you get. You don't even get a
cushion to rest your head on so you sort of just laid on the seat, which is a little bit uncomfortable but hey, that's what
we've gotta work with. So I'll see if I can get
some sleep without a pillow. Maybe I'll have to use my
jacket or something as a pillow. That might work better, hey? But yeah, that's actually
not a bad idea actually, that's my jacket. There we go, I can use
my jacket as a pillow and try and pull up me little blanket and see if I can get some rest. Anyway, I'm gonna try and get some sleep and I will see you in
the morning, goodnight. - [Narrator] Three hours later. - You know what, I think I'm gonna give up trying to get any sleep. We're now about two hours before landing. Aside from this being the most incredibly
uncomfortable seat ever because there's like rods and
bars sticking up everywhere. Obviously, no pillow or anything. So that's been tough. But then, of course, we've
got the crew who are right now as they have been for
the last hour, two hours. They're right behind that curtain there having like the loudest conversation ever. They just won't shut up. Shut up. I'm glad they're feeling awake. I might go sit and join in with them. I bet they wouldn't even
know I was there anyway. I can't sleep though. I need to drink as well
actually, but I don't know. I don't want to disturb them so. All right then breakfast time. They've just again just got a tray round and put it in front of me. It looks like we have some sort of pastry. We got a croissant and a
ChocoPan, and a very hot cob, and some Philadelphia
as well to spread on it, and a bit of fruit as well. It's about an hour before landing. We're just flown overhead Madrid. Sun is, well, it's starting
to get a little bit light over on the horizon. I think it might start turning light by the time we arrive into Algeria, but right now we're over Madrid. Crazy that we're only one hour from Algeria while we're over Madrid, I didn't realize it was that close, but anyway, let's eat me breakfast. And I'm hoping that they bring
some coffee round as well because I need caffeine right now. Right then, we've started our approach down into our Algiers in Algeria. We will be on the ground very soon. We'll just moving a few minutes. Can't wait to see what
it's like down there. So we were on our final
approach now into Algiers, landing gears down,
we're literally landing in about 60 seconds. Done a bit of an experiment. I've left my seat reclined and my TV out to see if they catch it
when they come around and do the walk around. They haven't, there's a green light that normally shows when
the seat's in the takeoff in landing position. Obviously, mine doesn't have it because it's still reclined. They haven't done a walk
around of the cabin. So how many people don't have
their seat belts on right now? They haven't been checked. I didn't have too long to
worry about the prospect of an unfastened passenger
hurtling through the air towards me though, 'cause pretty
soon we were smashing down onto the runway of Algiers, Houari Boumediene, Boume... Algiers International Airport. After we touched down, it seemed the crew not only hadn't checked
we were fastened in, but seemingly, they hadn't
closed half the closets and doors as doors came flying open as we slowed down on the runway. I got off the plane into
the terminal building and it was soon time to find out what connections were
like here in Algeria. - Transit? - [Noel] Transit, yes, to Paris. - Paris, passport, please. - [Noel] Yes. - Do you have boarding pass? - [Noel] I do, thank you. It's all there.
- Okay. - Thank you. After following the signs, I got to a desk where I had to complete
an entry form into Algeria even though I was just transiting. Yes, I think I have to complete. - Yes, for policy. - [Noel] Okay, perfect. - [Airport Security] Thank you. - [Noel] Thank you. Hey, good morning. No visa was needed though
and I had to get a stamp from the border guard
before a security checkpoint that just required me to
put my bag onto a belt and walk through setting
off all the alarms before being sent on my merry way so the guard could get
back to his morning coffee. Once I did get through
to departures though, it was really weird, it's a
massive brand new empty airport and at this time in the
morning, there was nobody there. I headed down this hospital-like
corridor to the lounge where once again there were
no members of staff anywhere. So I just sort of walked
in and took a seat. Nobody approached me the
entire time I was in there. So I do have to wonder whether or not I could have just got in
without a business class ticket in the first place. Right. Welcome to Air Algerie
Lounge here in Algiers. Relatively straightforward,
you do have to, it seems, get stamped into the country even though I'm just transiting,
which is a bit weird. Doesn't normally happen. Normally if you transit you
sort of just get waved through and yeah, there wasn't,
there was a security check but that was just walk-through,
set the alarms off, grab me. It doesn't seem like people
are that bothered about it. But anyway, nice terminal building though. This reminds me very much of
the terminal in Ulaanbaatar, strangely enough, when I
flew with MIAT, Mongolia and it's pretty much the
same design, it's quite nice, big, bright, spacious, brand new. We're boarding in like half an hour. So even though my flight leaves
in two hours, that's weird. So why are we boarding in half an hour if my flight leaves in two, anyway? I don't know. It's Algeria, I don't really know. But anyway, sit here for a
bit, might grab another coffee and then we'll head on down to the gate. All right then, time
to go down to the gate even though it's an hour and a half until our flight leaves to Paris. Apparently, you've gotta
get to the gate now. I'm guessing there's extra security because it's a flight to the EU. I don't know, we'll see. Figuring I have plenty of
time to get to the gate, I did stop and have a look
at some of the aircraft out on the ramp. There's loads of Air Algeria aircraft here being the national carrier as well as aircraft belonging
to Tassili Airlines, which is a local Algerian
airline here in Algeria. So it seems that there
isn't any extra security or anything, it's just
they wanted us at the gate an hour and a half before departure and there's like still nobody here. So it's 5:45 in the
morning, my flights at 7:15 and there's no staff or anything here. So yeah, kind of almost
wish I stayed in the lounge but then it was quite a walk
from the lounge to here. So I guess I'm kind of, I'd rather be here than in the lounge then
having to run sort of thing. 'Cause I am not in the mood for running at this time in the morning. Anyway, hopefully, we'll
be getting on board soon for the flight up to Paris, France. Eventually, it was time
to get on board the plane and it seems security at
this stage was a bit tighter than everywhere else in Algeria as I got my passport checked,
not once but three times as I boarded the plane. - Hello. - [Noel] Thank you. Once I got on board, this
aircraft was pretty different compared to the previous
one that I'd been on on the way over from Montreal. It soon became clear that this is because this isn't actually an Air Algerie plane. Hi, how are you? - Are you sitting there? - [Noel] Yes, 2A, yeah. All right, thank you. - [Flight Attendant] The
seats not working that's why- - Oh no, it's okay. Oh, perfect, so I have no neighbor. That's even better, thank you. Boy, all right, welcome on board. This is a bit different. This is not an Air Algerie
plane I don't think. So I think this plane is
actually a Hi Fly plane who are like a wet leasing company. They charter planes out to airlines. I don't think this is
an Air Algerie plane. It's in an all-white livery,
it's all white, all white. And the crew I think
are Hi Fly crew as well. So yeah, it's slightly different
to the Air Algerie one, bit nicer though, even
though it's in a 2-2-2, it seems to be a lot nicer
than the Air Algerie one, I have to say, lot more privacy. It's a lot cleaner and a lot newer apart from some of the
seats are a bit petered up. I'm just looking at the
state of that one down there. But hey, you know it's not too bad. It's not too bad. Apparently, there's
nobody at the side of me 'cause this seat's broken
at the side of me as well. So it's just me and I got two seats, my own private cubby for this flight. So yeah. I mean even better news,
apparently, I'm the only passenger in business class for
the whole flight today. I've got the whole cabin to myself and apparently, they've
loaded a full cabin full of catering on as
well for one person. So he said I won't be going
hungry on this flight. But to be honest, I don't think
I'll be doing much eating, maybe more sleeping. But hey, one thing that
was pretty interesting was this plane used to be
owned by Kingfisher Airlines over in India and they haven't
changed a single thing. The aircraft is entirely branded as Kingfisher on the inside. My flight to Paris took
us north across the island of Menorca and into France
crossing Marseille and Leon before descending into Paris
with a flight time today of one hour and 58 minutes
cruising at 38,000 feet. All right then, here we go. Airborne from Algeria heading
across now to Paris, France, about a two-hour run they've said, which isn't too bad at all. The seats really nice, by
the way, it's quite retro, but it's all set up as
Kingfisher Airlines, which is the Indian
airline that used to exist in the early 2000s. They had this aircraft brand new until they went bust in
like 2012 or something. So for the last 12 years,
it's been flying around still with all the
Kingfisher stuff onboard it, but just for different
airlines and it's pretty cool. And the seat controls are
down here in the middle. They've even got the
Kingfisher logo on them. There's a massage function,
which I've been using, which is just insanely intense. Like sometimes you get these massages and it's like a bar that
sort of rolls around and prods you in different places. This is like an actual
massage sort of chair that you'd find somewhere, and
it vibrates, and everything. It's really nice. And then there's little... So it's like a mirror that comes out. It's a privacy divider, but it's a mirror. It's nice having the
privacy divider there, but I don't know if the
mirrors are a right choice. I don't really wanna look at
myself for two hours really. Nobody deserves to look at me
for any length of time really, but I really don't wanna look at myself, so I can maybe put that back up again. There we go, that's much better. I can't see myself now, right. Like everything else on this aircraft, the in-flight entertainment was branded up as Kingfisher Airlines,
but it didn't do anything. I was left looking at this welcome screen for the entire two-hour-flight,
which was, well, slightly entertaining, I guess. Right then, breakfast time. It doesn't look the best, honestly. But I am starving because
I didn't eat my breakfast on the last flight 'cause
well, there wasn't much there. I mean, what is this? It's like some dried pork or something? Which is the same pork that
they had last night for dinner. It tastes rancid, yeah. I think this is supposed to be omelet. It's like some sort of
reconstituted thing. Well, it's something. I have to say I don't think Air Algerie are going to be winning any awards for their cuisine onboard. It's not the greatest. When this is the only
option to eat though, what else are you gonna do? So then Air Algerie,
where do we even begin with this shower of stuff over
the last couple of flights. Right. I have to be honest, I am not
a fan of those sorts of videos that we've all seen online
that slag off the cabin crew because they're given a crap service or that make sweeping
statements about the safety of an airline when actually it's probably just something minor that the airline's done
that isn't quite the norm. You know, I'm not a fan of these sort of big
expose-type things at all. I think those videos, in general, I find to be quite kind of clickbaity and not my cup of tea, honestly. And I really don't want
to make that sort of video about Air Algerie because to be honest, who knows what could have
happened on that last flight? It was probably a bad
day for the crew maybe. You never know, do you? You don't know what's going
on in that crew environment to make them the way that
they were on that flight. Now, I'm not really gonna
comment on the cabin crew and the service on the last flight, it wasn't what you'd normally
get on a long-haul flight, but you know, it just
might have been the crew having a bad day. You know, you never know. And customer service I always find is in the eye of the beholder really. What is constituting good
service for one person isn't necessarily what
another person will see. I'm very fortunate I've got
to fly on a lot of airlines around the world in business class and I've seen some really amazing service. I've also seen some really bad service. I get to see the whole
kind of range of it. So for me, it could just be my judgment that makes me think that
that wasn't as good. So I'm not making any
comment about that really. What I do have to make a comment about is the safety side of it. And I'm not gonna make any
sweeping statements here either saying, oh, Air Algerie are unsafe, they're not a safe airline. Because clearly, that's based
on one flight, you know? You can't judge an entire airline based on one flight on one particular day. But really as somebody with
the perspective that I have, somebody that traveled a heck of a lot on commercial flights, I fly an awful lot and I'm also a private pilot. I know that the very last
thing before you take off and the very first thing before you land is checking that passengers
have got their seat belts on. It's aviation 101. That just wasn't done in
addition to so many other things that they didn't do on that
flight that made me think, who knows what else is going on? How many passengers on that flight landed without a seatbelt on? How many passengers with
babies on their laps landed with loose children on the laps? If anything had ever happened and we'd have gone off the runway, who knows what could have happened there? And that's, honestly,
basic things like that is where I think that was kind of wrong. Now, as I mentioned before,
I'm not gonna go out there and say Air Algeria or an unsafe airline because the chances are
they're probably not. It could have been just
one crew, on one flight, on one particular day. I don't know, I've not
flown Air Algerie much. This is my first flight with them. But if they're doing that
on other flights as well, then potentially that's a concern. But again, I don't wanna
make click-bait videos and I don't wanna make videos talking about terrible safety procedures and terrible crew service and stuff. 'Cause that really isn't fair to anybody. And just really, you have
to take it as you find it on any given day really, don't you? Right then, we have started our descent down into Paris, Charles
de Gaulle Airport. We should be on the ground in about the next 20 minutes or so. Well, it's looking a bit
gray and cloudy down there. It might be a bit of a miserable approach in landing into Paris but hey, it's okay. Looking forward to getting
down on the ground. So the Hi Fly crew have just come around to make sure everyone's
seat backs are upright, and tray tables are
stowed, and TV's put away, and seat belts are done up,
and all that good stuff. So that's good. And with the basic safety checks complete, we were soon starting our descent into a rainy Paris,
Charles de Gaulle Airport. My flight to Paris cost a grand
total of 2,200 US dollars, or around about 34,157 Eritrean Nakfas. Considering I could have taken
this flight with Air Canada for about $500 less or
connected somewhere in Europe for even less than that. Air Algerie are actually pretty expensive, especially considering what you get. They are, however, the first
airline I've ever flown on that offer you that
full flatbed experience from gate to gate with
optional seat belts as well, which has to be a win, right? Let me know if you've
ever flown Air Algerie down in the comments. And once again, don't forget
to get your 14-day free trial of MyHeritage at the
link in the description. Welcome to Paris. Thank you so much for watching. As always, take care, be kind, and I'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.
