- We're saying good-bye to Dallas, Texas today.
Good morning.
All right, so we're here at the corporate terminal
here at DFW airport.
It's where a few of the little airlines
go Boutique, go from here.
And so do the airline that we are flying on today.
Southern Airways, who operate another one of these
essential air service routes from here at Dallas
across the state of Arkansas into Tennessee,
and that's what we're doing today,
on board, I think, that Cessna Caravan
that's kind of parked up over there.
So yeah, let's head inside and get on our way
with Southern Airways.
- [Employee] Thank you so much.
- [Noel] Good morning.
- [Employee] Hello, how are you doing?
- [Noel] I'm good, how are you?
So checking in for Hot Springs and Memphis, please.
Do I need a boarding pass or is it just-
- You are your boarding pass.
- [Noel] I am my boarding pass.
That's good, that's good.
Thank you.
- [Noel] Thank you very much. - Thank you, thank you.
- [Noel] Ah, can we not take that one today?
- What was your name? - [Noel] Noel.
Noel, that bottom one, there we go.
- [Attendant] You are seat 11.
- Okay, thank you.
The first leg today day then took me Northeast,
from Dallas-Fort Worth to Hot Springs in Arkansas.
Flight time today was one hour and 27 minutes,
cruising at 9,000 feet.
So their first stop today
is a town in Arkansas called Hot Springs,
which is about an hour and a half's flight
to the Northeast of Dallas.
It's a stop on the essential air service route
operated by Southern Airways here
in this part of the country.
And then from there, we're gonna head up to
Memphis in Tennessee.
Now Southern Airways are actually owned by
a Hawaiian airline called Mokulele Airlines.
I hope I'm saying that right.
They operate these very similar routes
with the Cessna Caravans over in the Hawaiian islands.
But they also operate a load of these
essential air service routes across the lower 48 as well,
including in this part of the world
through Texas and Arkansas and up into Tennessee,
which is what we're doing today.
It's an amazingly clear, beautiful morning here
in Northern Texas.
Just look at that view out of the window there.
Absolutely incredible views.
And I'm hoping it's gonna stay the same as we head up
into Arkansas and get some great views of those mountains
as we pass up into that part of the world.
I just love flights on the Cessna Caravan.
It is such a cool little airplane,
and it's so versatile in what it can do.
You've got flights like this where you can have
a few passengers on, they use them for cargo,
they use them for skydiving, and all sorts of things.
They're just such an amazingly flexible little airplane.
And it's always really cool, you're sitting here at like,
9,000 feet at the minute on this flight.
It's almost like you're standing still
when you look out the window.
Especially when you can see right down to the ground,
straight out the big windows like that.
It's such a unique experience.
And I know it's only a Cessna.
And I know a lot of people say, oh, it's only Cessna.
But they are just immensely cool.
- [Attendant] Good to go. - [Noel] Thank you very much.
Thank you.
- Are you going on to Memphis?
- [Noel] Yes.
- Your bag will stay with the plane.
You can just go ahead and go inside.
- Cool, thank you.
So then, welcome to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
And it's a lovely, beautiful morning here
in this part of the world.
We've got a bit of a stop here now
for about 40 minutes or so,
and then we'll be getting back on board
the same Cessna Caravan, I believe.
That's gonna take me onwards into Tennessee.
But here we go, isn't it a beautiful part of the world here?
Never expected this for Arkansas.
I don't know what I expected, but I didn't expect
beautiful lakes and mountains and things.
It's absolutely gorgeous, but yeah,
let's head back inside to the little terminal building here
at Hot Springs and wait for the flight onwards
to Memphis, Tennessee.
It's a very interesting terminal building
here in the Hot Springs.
It reminds me very much of a lot of the airports
in the former Soviet Union with the sort of
balcony around the top and the old signage and stuff.
It's very Soviet, isn't it?
But we're not, we're in Arkansas,
believe it or not, in America.
Very cool, very cool building.
They call it the old terminal building here.
I don't think it gets much use actually.
I think the only airline that comes here is Southern Airways
on this route up to Memphis, between Memphis and Dallas,
and that's pretty much it.
One flight a day and that's your lot
if you live here in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Going back out to the plane soon though
and getting on our way up to Music City, Memphis, Tennessee.
Thank you very much.
- [Woman] Have a good one. - [Noel] Thank you, you too.
Hey, thank you, same seat again?
- You are number nine.
- [Noel] Number nine this time.
Ah, one in front.
Awesome, thank you very much.
- [Attendant] Change of scenery. - Yeah, lovely, thank you.
The next leg today then took me east out of Hot Springs
to Memphis, Tennessee.
Flight time was one hour and three minutes,
cruising again at 9,000 feet.
All right, so on our way then up to Memphis, Tennessee.
It's about a 45-50 minute flight
from Hot Springs up to Memphis.
And as you can see, this flight's
quite a lot quieter than the last one.
There's only a handful of us on this one for the next leg.
And again, really nice.
They've moved me forward a row.
And some still incredible views out the window
as we cross Arkansas.
We just passed Little Rock, Arkansas
and heading up into the Tennessee border now
before we start our descent down into Memphis.
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- Can I hold anything for you there?
- [Noel] I'm all right, thank you.
Just got my bags to come off, I think there.
It's that one there, there we go.
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All righty, made it to Memphis, Tennessee.
And looks like we use the FBO
here again at Southern Airways,
same as they do up in Dallas Signature here at Memphis,
which is quite nice.
Gonna wait for my Uber
and then we'll go and grab something to eat.
Now I couldn't come to Memphis without coming
and getting some proper barbecue.
Although, to be fair, I'm not actually in Tennessee.
Yeah, I didn't realize just how close Memphis Airport was
to the border with Mississippi.
And it's another new state I haven't been to,
so I figured I'd come and pop over the border
and have some barbecue, which is proper nice.
And I really hope you've enjoyed this video.
I had a really fun flight today flying with Southern Airways
across Arkansas from Texas to here in
"Tenne-sippi" as we'll call it.
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but in the meantime, as always,
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Bye for now.