Get an exclusive Surfshark deal! Enter promo code WINGINIT for an extra 3 months free at surfshark.deals/winginit Welcome to a unique video! Surfshark flew me all the way to Lithuania in Air Baltic's business class. I had quite the trip on their A220 - twice! See our fire-related delay at Gatwick and a very rushed connection experience in Riga to get me to Vilnius! There, I met with their CEO, Vytautas, who is a keen private pilot. We had a brilliant day flying from Paluknys (near Vilnius) out to Aleksotas Airfield in Kaunas - we covered the flight with five camera angles and some cockpit audio. I really hope you enjoy this unusual video! Thank you to Surfshark for facilitating the video and covering my travel expenses on this occasion, as well as to Vytautas for reintroducing me to general aviation. What a day for flying!
Thanks for introducing us to Vytautas, Paul. It's nice to see the guy behind the product. So much so that I just subscribed to Surfshark. It'll come in handy on a few trips I have coming up to Oceania and the Middle East. Thanks for the promo code!
I’ve been watching your videos for several years, Paul and your flight in the Cessna is the first one I can remember your not eating or drinking while airborne.
I flew to Estonia earlier this year via Amsterdam. The Amsterdam to Tallinn leg (and back) was with airbaltic on their A220, safe to say one of the best short haul experiences ever. Getting off the A220 onto KLMs E175 back to Manchester was a big shock. Those A220s are a short haul game changer, quiet and comfortable.
What a fantastic experience in the Cessna! A beautiful looking country that I would love to visit at some point. I'm just back from doing the Milan - Sicily sleeper after seeing it on your channel. Another fantastic experience. All the best, James
amazing video Paul! that Cessna flight is the stuff of dreams for us aviation geeks for sure 😄 if I could make one comment, I would have loved to see fixed subtitles for your conversations on the plane with Vytautas, the auto captions didn’t pick up everything you two were saying! but what I did manage to hear was fascinating 😊
Awesome stuff, Paul. The livery on that first Air Baltic flight was spot on! I assume that the business class got you into the 1 lounge? Also loved the segment with the CEO from surfshark - looked amazing flying there and Lithuania looks fabulous
My weirdest airline/airport delay that made me miss a connection: American from JFK to LAX, with a connect to Alaska Airlines up the coast to Seattle. We pushed back on time. And then sat for 30 minutes because the port engine wasn’t plugged in to the power system (or something). Fine, we taxi and take off. Then we found out half the aircraft had no audio connection, this was back in the day before everyone had mp3 players, let alone smart phones or tablets. Ugh. Finally we land and taxi to a gate. And sit. 5 minutes later the flight attendant comes on, “There’s outside the plane, we can’t open the door!” I’m on the other side from the door, I see 1 bee. They pushed us back and towed us around to an open gate on the other side of the terminal. That took 30 minutes. I now have 15 minutes to change terminals in LAX… there’s busses that do this, but no direct bus, I have to go to the remote terminal for commuter planes and wait for a bus that goes to the terminal for Alaska… that took 30 minutes! My connecting flight is long gone. I thankfully found a customer service desk and they were able to put me on a flight 3 hours later (there was another flight in between, but it was full). I don’t get into my hotel until very late, but my story made the night desk agent feel bad enough for me to secretly upgrade my room to a two room suite! Thankfully my flight home was direct via Delta (the timing of their flight the other way got in “late”, that’s why I flew to LAX and connected, thinking I would get in early to have some dinner, lol.) Ironically I did end up taking the Delta flight to Seattle a few years later, and we wound up being two hours late because of a sick pilot whose replacement needed to get out to JFK in rush hour traffic. (They made up about 90 minutes of the long delay in the air, but we were still 2 hours late.) Thankfully I got dinner to eat on board that time.
I used to fly as a non revenue passenger a while ago and It was very common for you to be tha last one boarding the plane. Not the best experience at all!, but you were still very thankful to be boarding that plane after all!
Very cool! I got to experience airBaltic last November and it was one of my best flights, with great food and great service. Earlier in 2022 I also did a flightseeing tour of Squamish BC on a Cessna 172 where I got to take controls of the plane as well. Safe to say I really liked both experiences!
Excellent. I came to your channel with the overnight train to Penzance in Cornwall video and since I have been enjoying what you have uploaded. Incredible experiences, and though I am not good on aircraft, I envy your life flying the world. Have to say though, the smallest aircraft I have been on was a Duckling (sic?) maybe Duckwing twin propeller out of London CIty to Dublin about ten years ago. Not sure I could do a Cessna. Anyway, happy landings. Keep up the good work.
Would that have been Suckling Airways? Was owned by a husband-and-wife duo who used to make the inflight catering in their kitchen at home every evening, at least when they started out. It became part of the Loganair/Flybe franchise and merged into the former at some point around 10 years ago. Some remnants of their fleet are still up in Dundee.
@@ciudad-del-mar Sorry, I can't recall the name of the airline, just that it was a plane with about fifty seats tops, propeller aircraft and it flew me to Dublin.
Great video. The flights and food looked good. Terrific shots from the Cessna. I'm surprised the flight was held - I thought they usually want to take off on time. I've flown Air Baltic and it was generally fine. Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas and Trakai Castle are all great places to visit.
Was hoping this would be out before our trip last week! 😂 we had the back row in economy… A couple of great flights except for the shocking leg room (😡). The flight back to LGW was delayed, so I’m glad we ordered the food which - even in economy - was rather pleasant!
WOW! What an incredible video. Commercial flying with all it's pitfalls of delays and missing connections to the freedom of private flight. What a beautiful country with all its heritage kept pristine...Awesome!👍
Nice “ interesting “ vid - food looked great. Yes , inclusive of the blue cheese and pears - to each is own , however ;) Looks like the old Cessna 150 , I used to take lessons on a million yrs ago … Thx Paul !
I never realized that there was so much variation in the Cessna 172. My father had one from the '60s. There was no rear window and the second row was a bench seat. The front seats were on long rails that slid back to the doors that aligned with the bench seat. You got in and pulled yourself up into the nose. Easy plane to fly.
