I Flew AIR ALGERIE And Instantly Regretted It...

Welcome to AIR ALGERIE, we could not possibly care less.

Air Algerie.... Yeah. Eh, no thank you. Thanks for taking one for the team, though.

Bro...we Algerians hate our national airline because they hire their staff using Bureaucracy.. I can't imagine how disappointed a foreign individual would feel flying with such a Catastrophic airline.

The fact that you sat on the exit row and received no briefing raises big questions about the safety of this airline.

Automatic subtitles showing that Noel presents an "immunity" kit after presenting the icky state of the cabin made my day 🙂

I lived in Algeria in the 70s and used to fly from Algiers to Annaba,near Tunisian border.We were always so pleased to get off that flight in one piece.We called the plane the flying pig.Probably not an original name, but very apt.

As an Algerian, trust me when I say that everyone hates this airline. Whenever we travel to somewhere we always make sure to take another company. Back then it wasn't always like this tbf, there was entertainment and the planes were clean. However, things have changed for the worse in modern times. They've bought 2 new planes but it's up to your luck whether or not you end up in one of them. As for the staff not even saying a hello and lack of safety measures, this is most likely an unlucky occurrence because I've never experienced that. Anyways, on behalf of Algeria and all algerians, we are sorry.

Air Algeria is hilarious, once my flight was delayed for 24 hours, they didn't even bother to apologize.

The crew should be professional on every flight regardless if they are having a bad day… safety is number one on any flight!

The video speaks for itself, even if you were on mute we can see the airline is shit. Thanks for the video.

That thing you rode to the plane in Montreal is called a mobile lounge, and yup, Dulles has been famous for having them! The mobile lounge was an innovative feature of the Dulles terminal design by Eero Saarinen. Besides Dulles, Eero Saarinen also designed JFK's iconic TWA Flight Center and St Louis's Gateway Arch (fun fact the Arch's elevator is unique, an elevator tram that's a combination of elevator and Ferris Wheel principles that a guy named Dick Bowser had only two weeks to design and present to Saarinen; the cars rotate which allow the cars to remain level the entire way to the top and each tram carry 40 passengers with eight capsules)! Dulles's mobile lounges each weigh 76 tons with a maximum cruising speed of 26 mph and can carry to and from the terminal building up to 90 people. Their purpose was to radically restructure the idea of airports. By the early 1960s, airports had transformed to ramifying systems of hallways. As planes grew larger, they needed more space as they lined up next to each other along the airport building. And as flying grew more popular, airports needed to have more and more gates. The result was that terminal buildings sprouted long protrusions called fingers. Hundreds of feet long, they accommodated jets very comfortably. The finger-style airport was a purgatory of walking because airports went from being able to walk straight from the entrance of a simple terminal onto your plane, now you were reduced to wandering through a structure built for giants. So when Dulles opened in 1962, it did not have fingers. Instead, after passengers checked in on one side of the terminal building, they crossed to a row of doors that opened onto a fleet of mobile lounges. While the aircraft, some one or two miles off on the tarmac, were prepared, flyers relaxed in swank waiting areas, enjoying cocktails from nearby stands. Dulles's designers thought that by shuttling from the main terminal directly to a midfield jet ramp, they could save passengers from long walking distances amidst weather, noise, and fumes on the ramp. The advent of the jet bridge and construction of the two midfield concourse buildings at this airport negated the benefits of the system. As passenger numbers at Dulles grew, they realized it was impractical to use mobile lounges. Remote concourses were constructed, and the fleet of mobile lounges was used as a shuttle between the concourses and the main terminal. In 2010, the Dulles mobile lounge system for passenger movements between the Main Terminal and the A-, B-, and C-Gates was replaced with the underground AeroTrain, while mobile lounges have continued to be used to reach Concourse D before replacement Concourses C and D are built and the AeroTrain is expanded to become a continuous two-way loop. Besides Dulles and Montreal, mobile lounges have also been used at Philadelphia International, Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City until 2007, JFK International, the infamous Mirabel International until passenger services ceased in 2004, Paris Charles de Gaulle, and King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia. Early in the space shuttle program, NASA used the Plane Mate system of mobile lounge to move astronauts directly from the orbiter to crew facilities. A modified vehicle obtained from BWI in Baltimore was used for shuttle landings at California's Edwards Air Force Base. A similar vehicle was used at the Kennedy Space Center to take astronauts directly from the orbiter to the Operations and Checkout building.

Algeria facts: Algeria's name derives from the city of Algiers, which in turn derives from the Arabic al-Jazāʾir ("the islands"), referring to four small islands off its coast, a truncated form of the older Jazāʾir Banī Mazghanna ("islands of Bani Mazghanna"). The name was given by Buluggin ibn Ziri after he established the city on the ruins of the Phoenician city of Icosium in 950. Algeria's official languages are Arabic and Tamazight, although French is used in media, education, and certain administrative matters. The Algerian national animal is the Fennec fox! Their national football team is nicknamed Les Fennecs! Fennec foxes are the smallest of all canids, as they are just 14 to 16 inches (or 35.6 to 40.6 centimeters) long, with an additional 7 to 12 inches (18 to 30 centimeters) of tail. They weigh typically between two and three pounds! The fennec fox is distributed throughout the Sahara, from Morocco and Mauritania to northern Sudan, through Egypt and its Sinai Peninsula. They have sand-colored fur which reflects sunlight during the day and helps keep it warm at night. Relative to body size, it has the largest ears of any member of the canid family. It uses those big ears to listen for sounds of prey in the sand. The ears also help dispel body heat to keep the fox cool. Despite being the smallest canids, they can reach speeds up to 20 mph! Algeria became the first non-Marxist–Leninist country to establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK in 1962. That airport in Montreal was supposed to be replaced by the infamous Mirabel International Airport. Basically in the 1960s, Montreal experienced tremendous growth and optimistic about the future, the Canadian government wanted to build a massive airport, once the world's largest airport by surface area. And a rail system called Transport Rapide Régional Aéroportuaire Montréal–Mirabel, was intended to be completed at a later date. However, the transit system never got beyond the drawing board. The TRRAMM system was also intended to eventually be expanded to other parts of the Montreal region. The major stumbling block for the TRRAMM project was funding. Thus, Mirabel was forced to deal with an inadequate road system and non-existent rail transit, supplemented only by express buses. Because of unbuilt highways and incomplete train routes, it took an hour by bus to reach Mirabel. Besides that, Mirabel faced a lot of other issues after it opened in 1975. Montreal began to decline in importance after 1974 because of longer-range jets that did not need to refuel in Montreal before crossing the Atlantic. In addition, the simultaneous operation of Mirabel (international flights) and Dorval (continental flights) made Montreal less attractive to international airlines. Someone arriving from Europe who wanted to travel to another destination in Canada or fly to the US had to transfer between airports, complicating their journeys. The international airlines responded by shifting their routes to Toronto, which had none of these disadvantages. Dorval's (now Montreal-Trudeau) continued existence made Mirabel comparatively expensive and unattractive to airlines and travelers alike. International flights weren't actually allowed at Dorval between 1975 and 1997. Only Air Transat held out at Mirabel until the very end, operating the last commercial flight which departed to Paris on Halloween in 2004.

Safety is a priority for me! It shouldn't matter how bad a day the crew are having, they shouldn't miss the basics!

Reading up on Air Algerie's wiki tells me to stay far away from this airline, lol. Thanks for taking one for the team!

Well Noel, that’s a very VERY generous and understanding description of the Air Algerie cabin crew on your first leg. That disregard for basic safety is telling and I would not consider this to be an acceptable carrier for my needs. This is your best work yet, not joking. A polite, understated and unmistakably visible exposé of dangerous incompetence.

I'm an FA for a very large airline in Canada. You are not sitting in an emergency exit row. No idea why thr card was there however that's a main cabin door (L1) and there is the pursers jumpseat next to it. You would not be receiving a briefing.

The food looked vile and the cabin crew were a joke.

Omg Noel. Thanks for taking that L for the rest of us. What an absolute trashy airline. Horrible service, burnt rubber mystery meat for the "meal" and a plane itself that makes landfills look hospital-disinfected. Ugh. So glad you're recovering Noel and all the best to you and Rach on your anniversary!

Thanks for taking the risk flying with Air Algeria. Brave man.