I Took Southwest Airlines LONGEST Flight: 14 HOURS! 

I work for Southwest on the ramp in Denver! Glad to finally see you fly on Southwest! Those large white boxes you filmed going off and on the air plane was human remains or a dead body! Southwest does a lot of those! Looks like yall had an extra person flying with you!

4:13 Good bless the two individuals that were being transported in the underbelly of the plane 🙏🏾🕊️

Whataburger also has great breakfast options. Love the honey butter chicken sandwich.

I've landed at Bill Clinton airport where I've had a happy ending lol. I saw what you did there. You will try anything to entertain us with all those arduous flights, you must be exhausted by all of that flying. I don't know how you do it. You're right, Southwest Airlines get a bad rap, but I don't think they are that bad at all. Thank you for your great wit yet again and entertaining video of your travels.

You should do a challenge of flying from IAH to HOU however you have to fly around the world and your stops have to alternate between cities in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. That would be crazy but if anyone is able and willing, you are the man!!!

I haven't done anything crazy like hop around the country on one plane, but one time, I did fly on United from New Orleans to Newark, so I could connect to a 777-300 flight on to San Francisco. I had never flown a 777 and that was an opportunity to do so. I also did an around the world business class journey using SkyTeam miles. I went from New Orleans, to Los Angeles, to Seattle, to London, to Rome, to Seoul, to New York, to New Orleans. Got my one and only A380 experience on Korean A380 between ICN and JFK.

I work at MCI (Kansas City International) I wish I would’ve gotten to meet you. I know the ramp agent that walked your plane in, I’m gonna show him this video 😂

What's always fun is when you have to plan your own re-route because of the weather. I once hopped on one of the last SWA planes out of Midway before a snowstorm hit having personally come up with the 3 stop routing to my destination before I jumped onboard. The 1-800 customer service guy was fantastic as I was sitting in the terminal w/ snow falling all around, followed along on his computer, and booked all my tickets in some oddball routing way more complicated than the computer could ever figure out. But 4 flights and 3 planes later I was at my destination probably only about 6 hours tardy. Still, I got there that day! TY SWA.

Happy Ending at Bill Clinton Airport? hehe cheeky Noel...

I grew up in the Long Beach area. Jetblue used to serve that airport , and it's so much nicer flying out of there , than sitting in traffic to/from LAX. I heard that , when Jetblue left Long Beach , Southwest bought all of their slots.

How is Rachel? We haven't heard anything about her health in a lil while. I suffer from lupus & muscular sclerosis so I sympathize with her on so many levels. I'm always thinking of her and keep her in my prayers cuz living with pain while being a full time Mother is challenging! I hope she and your fabulous children are doing great! Thank you for my coffee and cigarette entertainment! I enjoy your videos so much! Take care and God bless 🙏🫶

The Mongolian currency conversion at the end was quite helpful, thank you! 😂😂

“Southwest is my guilty pleasure”. Love it dude.

I salute you for doing 14 hours on southwest I can barely do 5 hours before I get jumpy their seats are just comfortable for a few hours

Your turbulent first flight reminds me of how bloody much I have always hated any bumpiness. I have always admired your fortitude flying, actually.

In the past few years I've take a few SWA flights that eventually got me to my destination. The first was Grand Rapids - Chicago - Dallas - Albuquerque, and then a few months later it was Grand Rapids - Chicago - Colorado Springs - Las Vegas (overnight) then on to Long Beach to visit family. I'd like to fly them more often, but I have a couple of airports closer to home so now it's Delta, United or occasionally American. Good video - glad you shared your experience.

I just flew Southwest last week, and I was even in Houston Hobby airport for a very short layover. Southwest is my favorite airline. A couple of times I got continuing flights going to Midland, TX. One time it was 3 flights ATL-MSY-HOU-MAF, another was 2 flights ATL-HOU-MAF. With Southwest's open seating policy I can make a last minute decision which side to sit on. I often lookup the digital ATIS and load the planned route in Navigraph just before the flight to determine which side of the plane might have the best view, especially during departure or approach.

Back in 1995 I flew on Southwest from Spokane, WA to Midland, TX. Here was my route: Spokane to Boise, Boise to Reno, Reno to L.A., L.A. to El Paso (all of those flights were on the same plane), and then El Paso to Midland. I wasn't on the same plane as long as you were, but almost! I enjoy your videos!!!

WN Flight Attendant here. Wanted to say hi and I greatly enjoy watching your different experiences during your travels! Longest day, on duty for me was a 17 hour duty day on one plane (yes, you read that right). During the beginning of recovery of COVID when flying has picked up faster than we can bring employees and planes back. We originated a 737-700 in Cleveland and terminated it in Miami. Our original routing was supposed to be CLE-BNA-PNS-BWI-MIA. But due to thunderstorms in BNA that morning, we ended up diverting to ATL instead before we made our way back to BNA but not before a ground stop since the storms stalled directly over BNA airport. 5 flights, 3 sets of pilots, 17 hours, and one single plane later, we finally made it to Miami. In case you’re wondering. No, the flight attendants did not step foot off that same aircraft the entire day since it was just constant quick turns after quick turns.

Hi Noel I’ve just started watching the Vlog/video as I was waiting for the nurse to give me my medication - as you know I have secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and lupus. I live in a rehabilitation centre and either bedbound or wheelchair bound. ~ I’m in the middle of a flareup at the moment and I’m seeing the multiple sclerosis nurse on Tuesday ~ I absolutely love your Vlog/video as you go to places I can only dream about ~ your content is always great ~ thank you for all your hard work in putting these vlogs/videos together- sending loads of love and loads of hugs to you and your family ~ Xxx Xxx

Kattaru from patron here: I could not resist the urge. The wheelchairs in Dallas: From what I've heard, Dallas Love uses Prospect Airport Services, but like always SW pax be wilding. The Black chairs are for the proper airline, but The blue chair most likely belongs to entirely different contractor, and at my airport those blue Staxi wheelchairs would belong to Jet blue. I hope they get their chair back!

So glad to see my favorite travel RU-vidr trying this adventure! I was counting down the days until I got to see you try this one. I always fly with Southwest as it feels more like a joyride rather than just a transportation service 😂

Hey Noel was amazing as always to join you aboard, glad you had a great trip! I recently read a book by Simon Sinak, he mentions how Southwest's strong sense of purpose, driven by Herb Kelleher's values, has revolutionised the airline industry. Putting their 'why' first, not just the 'what' or 'how,' has turned Southwest into more than just a company - it's a force for change. This reminds us all that success comes from staying true to our core values.

I love LBX airport. I grew up north of it and loved watching the planes take off from my backyard.

In 2003 I took a SWA Flight from Albany, NY to Burbank via BWI, MEM, HOU, and ABQ. The agents joked it was their "See America Tour". The flight continued on to Oakland, and there was on Pax onboard who did that whole trip!

Thank you again... I have had the fortune at while working in the US, lived in each city you stopped in Houston was my favorite. Loved eating seafood in Galveston. Greetings from Sweden.

The most impressive aspect of this trip were the logistics scheduling it. As noted, you had to book from Dallas -> Long Beach then book a ticket from Long Beach -> Houston to stay on SWA flight 184.

I miss seeing you round Mansfield Noel eating a cob from the pound bakery or Greg’s now your jet setting I couldn’t be more pleased for you and love watching your videos!

That was good fun Noel, I agree that South West airlines is onto a long term sustainable path. I’m loving the diversity of episodes, keep up,the great work ❤❤❤

Glad to see you finally doing a Southwest Airlines flight! That's the ONLY airline I'll ever take especially after having 2 American Airlines flights (departure and return) barely landing before their engines quit and we had to be pulled to the gate. The departure flight literally just barely got on the ground in the city I was traveling to before the engines quit. Then I took a Delta flight and was discriminated against because I'm wheelchair bound and in my 50's yet they forced me to pay for a ticket to have one of their employees travel with me which I have never and would never need. Trust me if we have to make an emergency landing I'll be the absolute first person to go down that shoot with absolutely no help from anyone! Just because someone is disabled doesn't mean we're unable to help ourselves or unable to be completely independent. I used to work for Southwest as a reservation agent so I have always loved them. Plus they understand how to make those of us with disabilities not feel like we're unable to do anything ourselves. Welcome to KCI airport! I was born in Missouri and grew up in Kansas. I'm actually glad that you got off the plane in KC so I could get a little glimpse of the new terminal since I'll be flying back home to KC to visit family in July. It definitely looks a lot better than the old terminal that is for sure!

To use miles and fly first class alone, I once went CLT-DFW-PDX-SF0 -- it was a marathon of lovely meals & gorgeous scenery, and cost a grand total of $17 cash. Epic! ✈

A scenic route around America on southwest. A very interesting route southwest has from Dallas to Houston Tx. A Good adventure 😊 Much love on your journey @noelphilips ❤

Honestly, I love flying Southwest! The flight attendants some of my past flights were pretty chill. No assigned seats, I always snag a window seat towards the back of the plane. Really good prices and on sale on certain days. I also like their cancel flight policy, you get flight credit towards your next rescheduled trip. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you for the great review of southwest! Pretty much the only airline i fly on. Loved it!

Southwest's model is really good for passengers when things go right, but when the FAA had that system crash it hurt SWA more than most because their planes were scattered far and wide. I wish more airlines used this old bus route model, but hub-and-stoke sadly makes a lot more sense from an airline point of view.

I'm a huge fan of Southwest (I really don't like flying any other airline), and you left off mentioning the best part, the comedy from the flight attendants.

I love your videos and can not wait to see the Newest ones on Sunday nights , you’re my favorite on You tube ! Thank you for sharing your videos, and happy to see you on Tic Toc 🙏🏻💕

I love these "through flights". Breeze does this also and it is nice to not have to get off the plane for a layover.

1:04 wataburger is open 24/7 and serves breakfast

Familiar views of my home airport LIT. Enjoyed it as usual.

Love southwest! I flew them all the time out of EWR. Need them to come back

It speaks well for Southwestern that such an elderly aircraft gave you a pleasant flight. They must look after their aircraft.

12:26 Good on Southwest for removing the possibility of booking yourself a super long and expensive indirect flight if you just want to go a short distance. I remember there was a time where you could book expensive Sydney to Melbourne tickets where you fly via Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha.

Im so glad i found this channel. Ive always had a fascination with flying but im scared to death of it lol my father was a mechanic for American Airlines for 38 years so i grew up around the airport he worked at pre 9/11 when pretty much anyine could just walk into the maintenance shop lol im just glad i can watch these videos and enjoy from my couch.

Welcome to Chicago Midway and Southwest flight 999 with service to Nashville with contuining service to Orlando, Baltimore, Hartford, St Louis, Phoenix, and Dallas. If you are staying on between cities, you can earn brownie points with your flight attendants by helping us clean the cabin during our record winning 32 minute turns.

So cool Noel another interesting journey. Looking forward to seeing Rach up in the air again all the best to her. Not as crazy as this video but back in 1991 I flew Osaka to Adelaide via Melbourne on a Singapore 744. The flight between Melbourne and Adelaide was quite empty and we almost froze and had to ask for the ac to be turned down hahaha but pretty cool flying a 747 on such a short hop. Off to PVG tomorrow on CES out of MEL all the best to the family.

Love your channel Noel and your very humble spirit! 👍😃

Noel so glad you made it through Kansas City. But sweets you were in Missouri. Not Kansas. We kinda have a thing about that. We still love ya though.❤

Noel you really are an aviation NUT! Hilarious!! Congrats on surviving it! You weren't in Kansas at any point on the ground today Noel...MCI, it's in Missouri.

Most of the flights that I have taken has been on Southwest. I have to say , Southwest is my favorite. It gets you where you have to go with no headaches.

I RAN to this video because I love southwest lol. I love how you stayed on the same plane though, I was thinking you would’ve had to change planes.

Great clip Noel, it reminds me of a trip from Cleveland - Memphis- Dallas on a Greyhound Bus. Only difference it took forever. Thank you

Another great vlog Noel thank you, I am just back from Malaga on the Jet 2 , 737 - 800 , my first time flying with them and was pleasantly surprised they were very good and they do a lovely Starbucks Caramel latte lol , 👍✈️

I've been flying Southwest monthly for about the last year. I used to be very against Southwest, but it's been the most convenient option for my work schedule and destination. At this point, the experience on Southwest isn't that much different from the other big three in the US, outside of being able to pick your seat. I will say though that I try to get on the MAX-8 whenever possible. The 737 NGs for Southwest, the seats and tray tables are a bit weird and I don't find them as comfortable as the seats they've put into the MAX.

A lot of people who are unfamiliar with Whataburger don't know this. Whataburger serves really good breakfast sandwiches. And, some airport locations serve omelets, pancakes, etc. I'm not surprised Whataburger is slammed! When I was a flight attendant I used to get breakfast at Whataburger, IAH, terminal B. They would make me an egg and cheese sandwich on an English muffin, served with home fries.

Well you flew right past our place near the Legends area as you approached before you dropped below the cloud deck over Parkville, MO. Cool Stuff at 17:55

That brought back memories. Love it. Great video. I was based in DAL and HOU. We didn't fly to Long Beach at the time so never got to overtnight there. Safe travels.

8:47 🤔 Ha 🤣 ❗️Not a normal thing that normal people would usually do, but it was very enjoyable watching you from the relative comfort of my black leather electric recliner ❗️

That sounds like my kind of Day Out! I took three flights in January just to end up at the same place I started from. It wasn't the same flight number of course, in fact it was three different airlines. There was a couple of trains and a bus involved too but just sometimes it is the journey that is more important than the destination, especially on a dull winter's day.

It may not be the craziest route but it was certainly interesting. In the 1987 I took UTAs DC-10 TransPacific route SFO/PPT/AKL/NOU/SYD. I broke the journey up over about 6 weeks but it ended up being the same airframe on all the legs except for NOU/SYD when the DC-10 was replaced for technical reasons with a full Qantas crew and a beautiful B747-200.

Great video Noel! I really enjoyed it! What an odd mix of schedule changes to make it so hard to keep up with which is their longest flight! Still hope to try this concept someday and fly and review Southwest as I’ve never flown them yet! 😅

You can do HOU to DAL via MDW, CLT, BWI, CHS for the east coast if you like, with a night in Charleston before coming back to DAL. I was looking at CLT flights and ours tend to be just MDW or BWI where the flight number changes, so you have to go into FR24 and search a flight out of the departure airport and look at the plane’s reg and see where the specific jet goes vs what the flight number does to see what the route really is. Really want to do the Caribbean and Hawaiian islands on SWA one day.

LOVED HAVING YOUR COSTS AT THE END OF YOUR VIDEOS. LOVED THE MONGOLIAN CURRENCY EQUIVALENT IN THERE. KEEP THAT UP ITS FUN.

Hey Noel! I work for Southwest in Baltimore, Maryland. If you are ever traveling on a SWA flight near the east coast anywhere from Boston to Miami, you would connect through my airport of BWI to get there just like you explained! I love the company I work for and glad you enjoy flying with us. I work in Ground Operations at the airport but plan to become a flight attendant someday soon. I hope you continue to make videos flying Southwest and would be delighted to run into you one day wherever I may be. Also, fun fact: SWA has specific days of the year where every passenger receives their first drink on the plane free of charge, like Halloween and Valentine's Day! Cheers!

I flew with Southwest from MDW to SEA in October last year and I can't speak highly enough of them. The two free checked bags and the phenomenal customer service puts them way above the rest of the other major US carriers for me

I fly to SoCal for business from time to time, but I always go to LAX just because I know where everything is, even though Longbeach would be closer. Thank you for the detailed LongBeach tour. I will have to reconsider next time. 😂

Us Kansas Citians love our new airport. Glad you like it too!

I love southwest we fly yep them a lot and their customer service is great

I used to work for the "original" Frontier airlines back in the 70s and 80's. We were well known for flying the "milk runs" as we called them. My favorite flight was Denver-Pueblo-Amarillo-Oklahoma City-Tulsa-Little Rock-Ft. Smith using a Convair 580. We had many routings back then similar to this. Those were the good ol' days!

Another great video! Noel, I'm so thankful that you and your family were safe from the storm last week 🙏🙏❤️❤️

I’ve never flown such a tortuous route. The nearest was BA’ last direct flight to Kilimanjaro in 1982 on TriStar. Heathrow Athens Amman Dar es Salaam Kilimanjaro. It was delayed on the way and took as long as a flight to Sydney

Back in 2018 SouthWest had a flight number that started in San Jose and went to Burbank followed by Las Vegas, followed by Tampa, followed by Milwaukee and finally Phoenix.

I love the frantic running at 5:44

I love the new Kansas City Airport terminal. BTW - You never were in Kansas as the Kansas City Airport is in Missouri :)

You've been missing out by not stopping at Long Beach before. Getting to walk across the tarmac and board via air stairs at *both* the front and back end of the plane is quite a unique experience in the US. Back before Long Beach was a Southwest hub, it was Jet Blue's old hub, and they used the same boarding process there. Long Beach also takes advantage of how good their weather is by having a literal outdoor walk between their north and south gates and (last I checked) having a baggage claim that's open to the air on the side.

My oddest route...I used to travel to Fort Worth regularly from the UK. I learned it was often cheaper to fly to Wichita Falls and then drive back into the DFW area than it was to end the flight at DFW. So I randomly know the drive from SPS down to DFW very well.

My longest trip in an plane was is 1961, from Amsterdam to Sidney Australia with a KLM DC9. 37 hours, stopping many times. Sensational! Since then I’m loved flying, till the last 10 years. Now narrow seats and crazy people.

My longest was a Pakistan Air flights from Tokyo to London back in 1981. Took like 48 hours with more than 6~7 legs. It was so hard that I’d still try to avoid multiple leg flights to this day.

Great Video Noel...Southwest is considered a "Mid-range carrier"...the low-cost ones are Spirit and Frontier.....Then you got JetBlue which is sort of a lone-wolf carrier because they offer full services at lower costs....

Great video as usual. Just a note... when you showed the baggage handlers, you were showing human remains being transferred in two clips.

I always take Southwest from Sacramento to Chicago, next trip the end of June, used to work for southwest on the ramp at OAK a while back. Taking amrak's california zephyr back from Chicago to Sacramento, its such an awesome trip. It's addicting.

Long Beach was the home of McDonald Douglas’s commercial manufacturing. The building you see at 14:46 is where the C-17 was built. I think I have read that UPS bought the building from Boeing to use as heavy maintenance for their 747s.

Loved this video! Thanks for the amazing content - this is easily one of my favorite channels

Being retired I would love to take that flight. Being a pilot and very small plane owner. At almost 75 I am enjoying more being the passenger than pilot on long flights. I pray you and yours are OK after that big storm this week.

Noel very enjoyable vlog. Brings back memories for me travelling around with SW on spotting trips on 200/300/500 series of B737s . Sadly on my last flight leg we were denied our salted peanuts treat due to a fellow passenger with a severe nut allergy 😞

It's nice to see you on Southwest!!! I'll be flying with them on Tuesday from BWI to Hobby Airport! I wonder, have you ever flown through Baltimore before????

Good Afternoon, Noel. I had crossed 2 hr watching so had to close it. Yr clip is the first to start on Air- cell on'd now.

With all the weather happening in Houston, i hope you, Rachel, and kids are all ok and safe. Look forward, every Sunday, to see there you're taking us next!

My husband and I were just having a conversation about southwest’s longest direct flight last night… looks like it’s PHX to HNL.. something like 6 or 61/2 hrs.. I have done OAK to HNL in the past on another carrier on a 737 when my kids were little ( my daughters first flight) fun times.

The craziest routing I had was ALA-FRA-GYD-ASB on LH. It was on the same airframe as well and in the same seat. And then back the same way a week later.

That looked just as grueling as being on a Greyhound bus for 14 hours, I've done that before. Wow.

Would love to see you on one of my flights that I am working. Love your vlogs. Keep them coming.

You said it Noel only you could taje that flight , what sets you apart as the best !!!!!

Whataburger's Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuit with Sausage and Egg is my favorite breakfast sandwich. The one time I had their pancakes, they were pretty good. And I rather like their sausage-egg-cheese taquitos. So yeah, Whataburger early in the morning, even if you don't fancy a burger at that time.

I did one of these from Dallas to Manchester, NH (DAL-OMA-MDW-MHT). Weird experience but would do it again in a heartbeat.

Great video Noel! The KC Airport is actually in Missouri so you technically were never in Kansas! On the ground anyways.

I once had to fly from DFW to SGF (Springfield, MO). It’s about a 50 minute flight. I decided to do it with stops in Louisville and Chicago. It ended up being a really fun day! Also, as someone who is originally from Missouri… I feel obligated to point out that the Kansas City airport is actually in Missouri! As is the actual city of Kansas City. Don’t ask me how or why all that worked out like it did! 😂

I glad I’m not the only one who touches the heart

Almost as many stops as Heathrow to South Kensington on the Piccadilly Line. Paused around the 11:45 mark to check out that amazing solar array. Thanks.

Whataburgers breakfast is on point