Flying a FOKKER 50 in 2019! Air Antwerp Review

[@tylerfrederick5846]

Nobody: Noel: Cheers Thank You

[@sebby324]

That’s all English people including me and my dad

[@deepbluemania9679]

@zerpashmal It's not genuinly civil, since you don't really mean it. It's just habitual and lacks the genuine touch, if you say e.g. thank you to an empty seat, which wasn't made vacant etc.

[@Ironraven24]

@@deepbluemania9679 oh shut up lol

[@4vndd]

Nice trip report.. lovely aircraft...( Have flown in one myself... a couple of years ago..had a great flight...)...your flight brought back memories..!! Thanks for sharing.. !!

[@Mr500music]

I am totally blind and I love how you discribe your videos. Thank you.

[@glenhorsley5076]

I am a self-confessed F50 fanatic. I flew on Air Antwerp's their inaugural flight LCY-ANR and was pleased to see that the lovely Barbara (crew at the rear cabin on this TR) was working for them once more. I too hope that this route is successful but we shall see.

[@Falcon-Aviation]

3:30 I met the exaclty same co-pilot on my VLM flight from Rostock to Antwerp in summer last year! I visited the cockpit and he told me some facts about the instruments of the aircraft. Great to see him back in the cockpit after VLM has gone, haha :D

[@zeproo]

Thank you Noel,. You're so very welcome in my country. Belgians tend to be very nostalgic so that's why we maintain these old Dutch Fokker 50.To bad Air Antwerp doesn't provide other destinations. I'm wondering how Liege airport is, never been there. Cheers.

[@markstedman4592]

Love these smaller, less known routes and aircraft Noel. Another great video from you.

[@dave4shmups]

Great video! It’s great to see the Fokker 50 still flying! I don’t know why there were no orders by airlines here in America for the Fokker 50. The F27 was really popular here.

[@awaywithpaul3423]

Never flown a Fokker before, love the view of the wheels retreating into their hold after take off. Nice seeing a different plane 👍

[@DaleSteel]

These are very powerfull on takeoff. Really feel it.

[@IFlyPlanes]

Secondd, Love the video Noel! So nice someone finally tried Air Antwerp.

[@noelphilips]

Thank you :)

[@flexiexpress6713]

Noel Philips: inflight Video please try LOT polish airlines one day

[@LionsEagles63]

So nice to see it still flies in Europe in 2019.

[@Harryseal20055]

I don’t know why but I just love watching your videos lol

[@noelphilips]

Thank you :)

[@SZKYT]

Cause they’re good

[@dr.oliebol]

Don't forget that all Fokker airplanes where ahead of their time. Many other airplane makers licensed certain elements to use in their own airplanes. That's why why still feel quite modern after more than 30 years.

[@craigwillis3372]

When I first started flying here in Australia we had the Fokker Friendships ( Fokker F 27) as they were called...mainly on regional routes through out the country. This name led led to a number of risque jokes which I won't repeat here !! This aircraft has had more owners than my first car back in 1972 !! Thanks Noel for yet another terrific report and a good flight it appears. Looking forward to your next adventure as always !!

[@noelphilips]

Thank you Craig! A Dutch group are trying to get an F27 airworthy again for flights - would love to see them flying again!

[@juliusfucik4011]

"Let's get this Fokker up in the air!"

[@GrinddalCPH]

My great grandmother used to live in a 7 story building on the top floor in North Woolwich, I would spend hours looking out at the airport at all the departing and arriving aircraft in the 90s - Such great memories of all the Bae 146s, fokkers and the likes. Was amazing when I got to fly into City airport myself :)

[@shonen84]

Welcome to my hometown, Noel! Feels so weird to see you flying all across the world and suddenly recognizing my house when that Fokker 50 approached the runway. Hope Air Antwerp can stay afloat!

[@liamkettley4549]

You missed a trick of calling the title “Meet the Fokker”!

[@carlashby6174]

Noel I did this flight as a day return like your self to experience the Fokker 50.A good day out.Thank you for all your videos they are great.

[@bishwatntl]

I flew Fokker 50s a couple of times in the late 1990s with Air Nostrum. Back then it reminded me of the original Fokker F27s I used with NLM Cityhopper in the 1980s. Seeing the wheels coming down in this video brought back memories of flying low over the Netherlands and getting great views. Not much room for cabin bags but better than Jetstream J41s or Saab 340s (possibly the noisiest of the lot inside).

[@Aviatial]

Fantastic video Noel, I really enjoyed your video (as I always do 😄) thank you for the video, really enjoyed :D

[@kimmenten9941]

Great video Noel, I am from Belgium pleasure to see this! :-)

[@tonymacgrath7762]

I used to fly as cabin crew on VLM fokker 50...

[@pascalcoole2725]

Noel, thank you verry much for this video. I'm not familiar to Air-Antwerp but i surely was verry familiar to VLM-flight crews. There is something magical about the Fokker-50, all the flightcrews (both pilots and cabin crew but also maintenance engineers and instructors) realy liked this aircraft called the Rolls-Royce of the turbo-props. The only tangible reminder i have on this aircraft is a once replaced flight-controll-yoke hanging on the wall of my livingroom.

[@krauma]

Actually Amapola in Sweden still uses them in 2024. Would be very happy to take it for a flight some day!

[@Calcouk]

love the pyramid in City of Antwerp shot

[@Bad_Karma1968]

Those seats lol small Noel Like the “ This is a no smoking flight”

[@nickclarke6560]

Brings back my childhood memories during the early to mid 90s when KLM flew from Birmingham to Amsterdam on the Cityhopper Fokker 50. Shame KLM no longer have any turboprop aircrafts in their fleet.

[@AbsolutelyEverybody1]

I just subscribed. Great video and it's good to see the F50 aircraft in a video. I'm from Australia and the F50 was a regular in Western Australia. However they were sold in 2016. But in South Australia the F50 is used for Alliance Airlines which is a charter airline. Overall the F50 is a strong aircraft....Fokker really did make it a strong, tough and dependable. It was built like a brick. You'll get roughly 260 to 275 knots true air speed (TAS) and the aircraft can fly at a maximum altitude of 25,000 feet. The range is impressive too. The F50 is a fuel truck. Cheers.

[@dionontravel6044]

Nice one, Noel! Flew Air Antwerp almost a year ago! Was a great experience! Trying to make vlogs aswell, with you as motivator, thanks for that man!

[@Cladcreeper]

Lovely! I know the Fokker aircraft very well. They're my favourite type!

[@szesyn]

My favourite aircraft of all times - F27 and F50s. Wish they still make them.

[@fw4286]

Discovered your channel and it's the best trip report channel on youtube!!!

[@flyoverfredusa]

really great video again Noel - I really enjoyed the history of the aircraft at the beginning but i would advise giving the photographers credit otherwise they could easily get the video taken down (unless they are your images then screw me!!). Top work !

[@onlineamiga]

Air Panama are still flying Fokker 50's to Bocas Del Toros from Panam City.. Flew this myself. Was great!

[@oscarkastor7718]

Sweden’s little regional airline BRA also flies the f50 :D

[@j.k.1198]

Har flugit BRA:s F50 haha.. väldigt trångt 😅

[@dosvidanyagaming4123]

@@j.k.1198 Trångt, men en bucket-list grej för varje självrespekterande avgeek i Sverige

[@oscarkastor7718]

J. K. Kul, själv har jag bara flugit ATR-72 med BRA, kanske borde testa...

[@j.k.1198]

DoSvidanyaGaming ja definitivt. Inte direkt den rymligaste maskinen haha

[@j.k.1198]

Oscar du missar inte mycket... enda anledningen att flyga F50 är för man e en avgeek. Har flugit BRAs Avro & F50, men inte ATR ironiskt nog!

[@SkyHighGuys]

I wish this aircraft was still around! Amazing review man simply breath taking 😍

[@InfaredAviator1492]

Just flew on one today from Mogadishu to Galkayo

[@TheRuben_music]

That aircraft was my "bus" for a few years when Norwegian Airlines started out with only The Fokker 50

[@patricecleeren4501]

Thanks for the lovely Air Antwerp Review!

[@joerngoetze1284]

Love your work Noel. Would love to see you do a trip report on the the Cubana IL96

[@steveleslie2170]

Man, if I lived in the UK I would travel to Europe for vacation a couple times a year with such low airfares. I can't even get a bus ticket that cheap.

[@catherinemassey2834]

Cheap uk to eire used to be 1p or 1c plus taxes i booked some and then forgot to go

[@nikhilsaraswat8292]

You do need to be close to the big low cost hubs for this to be doable. We live 30 minutes away from Stansted airport (aka Ryanair central); and at our peak we did 7 trips to Europe in 4 months mostly of weekend getaways without taking any time off work. Ah the days before we had our kids...

[@lucascalma605]

It's feels good to see you ride the Fokker 50! I hope I can see you ride the Q300, Q400, ATR 42 or 72 (early development with 4 blades), Saab 340 and Saab 2000

[@Kirstin-jd3wf]

If you ever come to Germany please try 'Rhein Neckar Air' from Mannheim to Hamburg. But only this direction. Aircraft is a DORNIER328 and you will get the best service in board you can imagine. Greetings from Hamburg

[@fokkerf281000]

Great video, I especially appreciated the history of the aircraft, nice touch.

[@TravelSignal]

9:24 note the Luchthaven sign on the side of the building. The top half, where it said Aéroport, has been covered up ;)

[@TravelSignal]

Also, when I did the route in reverse on Cityjet, the same parking stand at Antwerp, we had the shortest bus ride ever - barely the length of the plane!

[@rasmuslindholm5719]

I didn't notice how close you are to 100k, I've been here for a long time and I'll definitely stick arround for your 100k special.

[@MrAllwrighty67]

Great video as always Noel, I really hope Air Antwerp succeed where VLM failed. Antwerp is a fantastic city and the tiny airport is easy to get through and a good alternative to Brussels.

[@joeyv5118]

Antwerp sucks

[@laurencecrowehaylett5347]

Really enjoying your content. Good stuff. My absolute fav flight growing up was always the short but amazing Exeter to St Marys on the isles of Scilly flight. If you haven’t done it. Do it!

[@f-18superhornet13]

Nearly at 100k subs ive been subbed since 9k and i have watched all of your videos. I respect what you bring for us (brilliant videos)

[@chris_flies_business]

Come here to australia and you can fly the biggest Fokker fleet in the world with over 40 F50s F70s and F100s. Just flew the F70 last week and it was a cool little jet.

[@nathanwilcock8999]

brilliant video yet again! i love watching these short haul flight videos, you should try doing more in scotland with logan air! as iam scottish and live in the shetland islands

[@Seitenbacher...]

Made the ANR-LCY flight today. It was awesome to fly on this aircraft.

[@tonguepiercing]

As predicted by Noel, the airline had a short history. In june 2021 all operations were stopped.

[@galihxtreme]

Move 3 rows forward and you'd get that amazing view of main landing gears' "initial friction"(touchdown) during landing

[@GabrielViana-mg3vh]

I can't wait to have a flight with them! The Fokker 50 is my favourite aircraft! Sadly I still never flew it.

[@janssensbaskoro]

Aighty, Antweeeeeeeeerp represented 👌👌👌👌

[@lemonjucie9862]

You're one of my favorite aviation KZbinr and I would really like you to try Icelandair business class or economy my favourite airline would be fun to see your experience

[@michaelmitchell5380]

Nice POV presentation!

[@MomentsInTheSky]

Be good to see them back at Manchester - well, would be good for me anyway! Lovely video as always Noel

[@noelphilips]

Agreed! They need more planes though first!

[@vinceiswatchingyou]

Can't beat LCY on a Thursday or Friday night... great vibe

[@glodieda]

nice butter landing 👍

[@jamesking1952]

Great video Noel!

[@syedahmed8015]

Fokker is amazing 👍🤩

[@rocprcr]

My only experience flying on a Fokker 50 was on a government plane. Yes, it was very noisy as Noel pointed out. Also, the tray table was so tiny, that it actually looked “cute”. I was offered quite a meal service by the Taiwanese Air Force Presidential Airlift Squadron.

[@peterlatty4187]

We are flying a few in Adelaide Australia with Alliance Airlines, ex KLM I think.

[@pieter-jantm3553]

Im from Antwerp it's Nice tp see that you are here 🙃

[@bpinkhof]

Well, mister Philips, I think the first fokkers flow already in the sixties or maybe even end fifties. If the old ones still are flying they must be good or not? The first time I ever took the plane as a child was with a fokker from Antwerp to Amsterdam in the sixties. End sixties. Lovely to see your video. Good video.

[@steel.croissant]

You should fly with Alsie Express! They operate two ATR 72-500 with a business class like interior and drinks & snacks on a 35 minute flight.

[@airspeed_alive]

I've been on that exact aircraft when it was with VLM :D

[@bradleyrhodes2583]

Great video keep up the good work

[@ggoran6781]

I love it, Very good!

[@leestravels7079]

canny little Fokker that :-) would love to try the Fokker 50 one day, must get planning

[@tomjordan378]

Come to Australia we have plenty of F50s, F70s and F100s at Alliance Airlines and you can fly on them for reasonable prices 👍

[@leestravels7079]

Tom Jordan I’ve done the F70/100 when KLM operates them here in Europe but that F50 has evaded me. Doing it in Oz would tick two things off the travel list too 😁

[@gwnlars_8306]

Fokker🧡 Dutch Quality is always the best💙 (Den Oudsten Bus, Fokker Aircrafts, Werkspoor, Allan etc.)

[@ludwigmesser5339]

Air Antwerps flight from London City to Antwerp is interesting. There's a series on TV on Channel 58

[@pascalchauvet7625]

Why was the Fokker 50 phased out of airline service much earlier than the De Havilland Canada/Bombardier DHC-8 or even the ATR 42/72 series???

[@flyingdentist]

Stunning flight review in a rare plane.

[@karolingus9329]

I think Air Antwerp is managing it better than VLM, thanks to shareholders KLM and Cityjet. ANR - LCY was a profitable route for VLM, but VLM made the mistake of wanting to expand too quickly. They opened a lot of routes: Zurich, Maribor via Munich, Rostock via Cologne, Manchester, Aberdeen via Birmingham.. The growth wasn't sustainable. KLM and Cityjet want to keep the sole route ANR-LCY for now till they are profitable and only then will they think of new destinations.

[@noelphilips]

Agreed, the KLM link could be the key.

[@diederikvanrappard7506]

It's early days but it feels like a dejavu.A full bar service with very low ticket prices, the exact same mistakes VLM made.This won't last long(again)

[@SmartAsMarbles]

There’s an airline that flys between ADL and OLY called alliance which has a fleet of mostly Fokker 50s

[@thomaswyly342]

Do you mean OLP? I think it's cool that Alliance are still keeping the F50's around, they have an all Fokker fleet too (F70 and F100's)

[@airfreak75]

Looks like a fun flight. Odd to have 2 F/As on a 50 seat aircraft.

[@noelevnell3602]

Flyg BRA operates a fokker 50 between Stokholm Bromma (BMA) and Kristianstad Österlen Airpot (KID) 3 times a day. Maybe you could make a review. They also operate the avro RJ100 and the RJ85 on between the bigger cities in Sweden.

[@diederikvanrappard7506]

The excellent service is still the same as it was many moons ago on the Rotterdam-Hamburg route! Unfortunately the same goes for the low pax on this flight, I took many vlm flights to Hamburg and I can't remember a single flight that had more than 15 passengers on board

[@MS46532]

LCY is my favourite airport!

[@syedahmed8015]

Very nice plane 👍👌👏

[@t3chn0m0]

Oh boy, I always wanted to fly on a Fokker50. I just saw that indeed Air Antwerp went down ini July 2021. That is really sad....

[@tvs5590]

fun fact i live in one of those houses you saw when he landed in antwerp!

[@fervanei9438]

Hey Noel, great video. I was wondering if you could do another Jet2 review? I really wanna see you fly from Stansted to Larnaca since I do that trip every year so I thought it would be nice if i could see your opinion on it? Thanks

[@c3vids_shorts]

Supposed to be a straightforward aircraft to fly 👍💯

[@dylanscott9841]

Great vid also so close to 100k

[@adalbertotorrero5893]

I flown on a F50 recently. Air Panama has 3 operating in their fleet and i guess is the only one in the Americas operating this aircraft. I flown to Paradise.... from PAC-BOC.... will upload a video soon. Stay tuned.

[@DaleSteel]

These are so powerful on take off

[@smaviation9171]

Nice video 😀 The windows on the Fokker 50 seem very small compared to other modern aircraft

[@AggrarFarmer]

Perfect bushplane.

[@bricoman4933]

No, the crew are not all ex-VLM, the purser you had on this flight actually come from Brussels Airlines

[@matthewmartin7639]

So is London City basically London's version of LaGuardia in New York City? Inner city, tight spaces etc.?

[@mickhedger9625]

A favourite saying in remote Australia trying to get home For a joke the pilot would know how desperate you were for a seat and tell you straight-faced “Sorry Okker, the Fokker’s cholla”

[@mickhedger9625]

Chokker

[@davidharris2519]

for some odd reason I like the F-50 a nice a/c but miss the weird nosewheel as in the FH 227s or the Fokker -27s

[@michaelfrancis8692]

I hope you fly Brussels Airlines one day its excellent especially to the US..

[@flexiexpress6713]

Noel please try LOT polish airlines

[@noahv1]

I live next to Antwerp Airport, everyday there are flying embraer over my house

[@AbsolutelyEverybody1]

How tall are you? F50s legroom is normally pretty good (depending on seat configuration). Skywest used to use F50s with 34 inches legroom.

[@tomstravels520]

I just accidentally discovered your “myflightradar24” profile from Flightradar24 app. 461,070 miles over 398 flights..... I’m only 85,000 miles over 53 flights. A lot of catching up to do but really interesting to see which airlines and aircraft you’ve flown with/on

[@tomstravels520]

Blue collar Silver dollar I’m not sure but I think you do to see other people’s profile. Just search my Flightradar24 in google and see what it says