Fabulous or FAILURE? Flying Silver Airways ATR 42 to Key West

Silver Airways is a Florida airline flying ATR 42s and 72s from Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, and San Juan all over the Southeastern US and Caribbean. But what's it like to fly on their bright pink planes? Let's find out on these trips between Orlando and Key West.
I paid $240 for a one way ticket.
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Booking the flight
1:30 Silver's "on time" Reporting
2:12 Boarding in Orlando, Cabin
2:55 Orlando to Key West
4:38 Key West and Concerns About Silver's Reliability
6:05 Boarding in Key West
7:14 Key West to Orlando
9:17 Conclusion
#silverairways #aviation #tripreport

[@Tasha_Jacks]

This was a great and very helpful video thanks

[@FlyByGarrett]

That's cool, your camera caught the Prop angle change from taxi to take-off. A lot of people don't realize those things adjust depending on what's needed from the plane. Enjoyed the review. Never flown them, but always saw them around.

[@ppish123]

I have flown this airline several times, and I flew it last week. I really like it for domestic low priced trips in Florida. I went to Key West; plane was on time there and back. I really have no problem with the airline. Great views at 10k feet. It is what it is.

[@markg999]

Used them from Tampa to Nassau before no problems years ago. Booked another trip to Nassau again and now they cancled the Saturday flight a month out but I had to extend my trip and extra day to get out with Silver on Sunday. Biggest plus is a dirrect Nassau to Tampa flight with a toddler much prefered instead of dealing with connections.

[@mfehlma]

They also had a small luggage compartment in the cabin in the pink ATR I flew in.

[@tradersltd]

You have no idea of the afternoon thunderstorms that affect the low flying ATR vs a 737 at 37,000 feet. Thunderstorms are daily and you seem extremely judgemental of the slightest defect. This was 10 minutes of complaining...

[@Travelog]

Sorry this wasn't your cup of tea, but I don't think thunderstorms explain everything here. Are thunderstorms the reason why Silver hasn't paid rent at FLL and is about to be evicted? Are thunderstorms the reason why a flight changed 5 times over 2 months beforehand? I enjoyed the flight. I like regional, quirky airlines like this. I want them to succeed. But I will always take the side of the end customer, the flyer. And if they aren't reliable, and it ruins your vacation (hence the 2 stars on TripAdvisor), I need to point it out.

[@The13thGoddessAries]

@@Travelog Thanks! I never heard of them and we’re flying from Houston in a couple of months.. this definitely helped me decide who to go with. Thanks❤

[@plasmaturkey48]

Pink ATR all the way

[@evpilot]

There is a story behind why the airplanes are pink. While it would be politically incorrect to go there, it’s a great story nonetheless

[@KuostA]

let's hear it please. why?@@evpilot

[@kharna2167]

09/01/23 i supposed to fly from JAX to new orleans and they resched my flight multiple times imagine my flight was supposed to be 3:45pm they let people wait until 8:30 at night not only that but when we already got boarded like literally people already sit down inside the plane and they told us to get out and we going to get resched to the point that they cancel the whole flight after more than 5 hrs plus rerouting takes atleast another 3 to 4 hrs just to get reroute not only that but they reroute my flight with multiple stop worst airline and worst service ever never ever to fly with silver airlines no more that will be my first and last time!

[@JeffHokie]

we were going to send my daughter from GSO to MCO. There were three flights with Silver that day. one to Nashville and two to MCO. They cancelled all three for the day. How do they stay in business? Money laundering racket?

[@kendaldk5634]

​@@JeffHokie I was going to use silver to fly from Greensboro to Tampa to see my friend who moved to the Tampa Bay area. It seemed like a winner to me at first because I could do a direct flight to Tampa out of Greensboro without a layover and cheaper than Delta, or having to drive to Charlotte just to get a direct flight. Anyway I went to book a flight just to find out they stopped servicing Greensboro, less than six months after they started there. They also terminated Nashville service around the same time. What's insane to me is that if you go on their Wikipedia page and look at how many Airports they've terminated service from, it's any wonder how they got that many airports are wanting them to begin with after seeing how many and how often they terminate service with.

[@JeffHokie]

they continually cancel flights. i wouldnt waste the headache on this abomination

[@travelderek]

I fly Tampa to New Orleans several times per year. Spirit, Southwest, and Silver all do that route nonstop. Usually take Spirit. After seeing this video I'll never take Silver lol. Scheduled flight time on a jet (Spirit or Southwest) 1 hour 30 minutes. Scheduled flight time on Silver 2 hours 30 minutes😂 I don't care what the fare is, it's not worth taking an extra hour to get there. Plus having to board with the stairs😂 How is Silver even in business? lol

[@KuostA]

how is boarding with stairs an issue? how entitled you are. really pathetic really. you're a travel avgeek, but don't like walking out onto the ramp and seeing allll the planes in person live in front of you and hearing them all???? you don't like seeing your own plane in person and walking up to it? are u some posh king or prince or something?

[@Jsharvey900]

They got some of the ugliest planes in one of my favorite liveries. Huge L. Huge fail

[@FormerpresidentHathaway.]

The plane I flew in was kinda crusty, just dirty and worn out. Ripped shades, crumbs in the overhead bin somehow. Surprisingly the plane was only 5 years old