I'm a flight attendant that finds himself burned out on travel and the industry from time to time. I come here to remind myself of the things I love about aviation. Thank you Alex.
I hear you about our airline industry for us crew members. I felt thst way until I went Hawaii. Kona and Kauai are beautiful islands.😊 Maui is gorgeous as well.😊
I really appreciate the little island tour you gave despite being an aviation channel, it's great to learn what a place like St. Maarten really has to offer! You should keep up on those tours wherever your travels may take you :) Congrats on your well deserved 100K, Alex!
That’s awesome Alex! Shame KLM doesn’t send their B747’s there anymore, I was there when I was young and I still remember the massive B747 flying right above my head.
I really hope you make it there one day it is 100 percent worth the trip, I’ve been visiting once a year since birth. It’s like a second home to me. I hope if you ever make it that it treats you well.
Congratulations, Alex, on getting to this amazing milestone. Happy to be one of the 100K and to see your trip report to St. Maarten. What a great way to celebrate.
Glad you got to make this trip. I really enjoyed my stay there many years ago. We rented a car and hit every beach there during one week. The jet blast at that beach is no joke, saw a few people who were standing at the fence get blasted onto the road. I think that's why they put that mini fence in front of it now.
6:53 I feel that.. as someone who use to travel down to the Caribbean for work from Toronto multiple times a year prayed they AC would switch to the A220/C-Series...
I was bitten by the aviation bug when I was a very small boy. I got my pilot license at 16 and never stopped flying since then. I like your no nonsense style of making these flight videos. And now you are pushing almost 200k subscribers. Well done Alex.
Let me get this straight: I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone who deserves that 100k more than you do. Since I first started my aviation photography journey you have been the main person I have looked up to, and after 3 years, I still do. Meeting you is an absolute honour and I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. Congrats on 100K Alex, I can’t wait to see what’s next 🫡
100,000 subscribers is an impressive achievement. Congratulations. Prior to my retirement, I flew into several airports around the Caribbean but never Ste. Maarten - until now. I always enjoy your (enthusiastic but) relaxed, and informative narration. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations on 100K Alex! My wife and I have visited St Martin many times, we stay on the French side and just love it! Thanks for this video, glad you enjoyed !
Congratulations on 100k! This is one of my favourite channels on yt! I absolutely love plane spotting. Congratulations from your neighbouring province of Saskatchewan!
Congratulations on 100,000 subs! I love watching your videos. I just got back from a trip from Ocho Rios, Jamaica. I stayed at an all inclusive as well, and it was awesome. Our approach into Montego Bay airport was one of the coolest in my life. Caribbean airports are awesome. Keep up the great work!
Grats on the 100 thousand, thats really rad, and thanks for sharing this little celebration with us. Heres hoping your next milestone and exciting trip come just as fast is not faster!
I felt what you said about it being the trip of a lifetime, mostly for an avgeek, thank you for sharing with us your adventures, always looking forward the next one!
Great work!!! My 1st time was back in 2019. That beach was a bucket list one I’m glad I was able to tick off! I think you have one of the best aviation/aircraft channel on this platform!! ✌️👍
Make sure you bring a "bucket" of cash with you. It looks like a little island. While it is not a typical tax heaven, it still offers lots of tax advantages for certain industries. The number of private planes you have seen belong to people who come to the island "for business purposes" and they do have the money to stay in Hotels that exceed what ordinary people can afford. Same with Restaurants. You can find reasonable prices but you have to be careful where you sit down.
at 14:44, there is a really rare find. I saw a qatar airways and was confused as I had never saw a route from doha to sint maarten. I was even more confused when I saw it was an 140 when those were retired a while ago. I looked it up, and saw it was for the Qatar Amiri Flight which is an airline for qatari government officials. So yeah, that's really rare and the only time it has ever flown into sint maarten.
First, I gotta say congrats on the 100K. Second, thanks for sharing this awesome vacation you had in St. Maarten! Looking forward to the full spotting vid as well.
17:23 Wow, that’s so amazingly made, really loved that montage! The whole Video was great still, and I like your stile of Humor and sense for great content :)
We were suppose to go to Saint Martin in 2 weeks and my wife has a medical issue so we cant go and our friends are going still i am going to show them this video because we are alsostaying at Sonesta Great Video Alex and we will get there some day soon
Thanks for uploading. I did a eerily similar trip the following november. Stayed in the same hotel, visited all the same places, I saw TNCM hundreds of times as a child too. 2008 era. It was so nice to see all of this again because it was incredibly sad to leave. Next time you go, hike up the main mountain Peak Paradise. One of my favorite pictures looking down at the french side.
Were you able to use the lounge at the connection airport (Toronto) since you purchased an upgrade? Is it me but does the “Max” series aircraft “rotate”(lift off) earlier than similar aircraft?
Hi Alex, huge congratulations on passing the 100K threshold! I'm happy to have been subbed to you since 2012 (or 2013, either way back when you were dude8472productions), and see your channel grow to what it is today, from YYC plane spotting vids still with strictly smooth camerawork to world class flight reviews AND plane spotting vids with strictly smooth camerawork and more! Great way to celebrate by venturing to SXM - Sonesta was a great choice! Anyways, great job once again. Blue skies!
I enjoyed looking at this video it reminded me of my days growing up as a little boy on the neighbouring island of Anguilla and visiting St, Maarten very often .This video is a job well done.
Another great video, thanks Alex! Your video is the first one I have seen of St. Martin that showed more of the island than just the airport arrivals and departures!. I would love to visit someday, but we will see!!! Take care and stay safe!!!!
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers (including me)! St Maarten is a place l would dearly love to visit.Watching your video was how l expected the place to be.Definitely high on my list to visit❤️👍!
First visitor here. Congrats on yout channel. Great videos! This one in particular made me be a little emotional I don't know why exactly. Thank you for sharing your experiences!
Always love to see your videos, but this one was a special treat asyou visited my home "town". Could you imagine in the late 80s maho beach use to be completely deserted. So my friend and I had the approaches of DC8s,9s,10s L1011 and the incensing on the cake the Panam 747sp all to ourselves 😊
Hello Alex. Thank you for this super video. This is by far the best video I have watched on Sint Marten. From Calgary via Toronto, your landing on the Island and the surrounding seascape was heavenly. I have never been there but after watching your video I would certainly like to go there. Your hotel also looked lovely but best of all was your balcony overlooking the runaway. Certainly my kind of place. You can tell just how happy you were by your voice. The water looked so clear and it did remind me of The Big Island of Hawaii. We flew many times there via HNL with CP Air. Ive flown the 747 also the DC10s and even the old stretch DC8’s but that was history. I’m pleased your 747 Max flight was so enjoyable. Thank you.🛫🌠🌅
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers Alex! Very well deserved. The trip to Sint Maarten would be the perfect avgeek holiday. I visited the island in 2013 on a Caribbean cruise and would love to return. We had a great tour guide that day, who took us to Maho Beach among many other places. I was one of the few people on the tour who knew about it as I had been watching the KLM 747s coming and going on TH-cam.
Great video! Went there years ago and really enjoyed the two cultures. Not to mention people getting blown around by the jet blast. Looking forward to more videos. :)
What a treasure to watch this video Alex! I’m honored to be a subscriber of your channel! This video was another quality and excellent work of art! That would have no doubt been an amazing and enjoyable adventure trip! I could tell while watching it! You really make some excellent videos and obviously memories for yourself! Stay warm up north! It’s finally turning into Springtime here in Iowa USA! Appreciate you Sir! Best regards always! Mark in Iowa.
I was there in December as well!!! Looking myself in the video. We stayed at the Secrets resort. Amazing video and amazing island can't wait to go back
Been here 2 times in the last two years. A beautiful island, kind people, and I spent all 14 days swimming, and plane spotting (while swimming) at Maho.
One of the best trip reviews I've seen from St. Maarten. You really did it justice, I went back in 2022 and it was one of the most amazing places I've ever visited. When the Air France A330 departs west it's hilariously loud and I got a kick out of hearing all the car alarms going off!
Great video, have you ever considerd going to Iceland and Greenland thay have a interesteing operaton specialy in Greenland (only dash 8's becuse you have not had enugh of the dash 8)
I just subscribed,You seem like a plane guy who has a travel tube. I like your neutral approach. Live video with no running yakking about what is happening. As a service employee, I enjoy the banter and follow a few who do show me the crew interaction. You are very informative and I look forward to more of your work. Be well and stay safe and enjoy life.
Congrats to 100000k! And if someone should get it it was you, all your videos are amazing not just for the fun off watching them but also for the sheer interest you show for them, this channel wouldn’t have been like this with someone else, and I thank you for all these years off content. And I hope there will be many more to come.
“Local time is… who cares, it’s vacation time!” I love that 😂😂
My thoughts exactly! What a nice touch.
Imagine the whole crew get a whole week paid layover there😂
That was nice, but passengers didn't pass the vibe
Rough timestamp: 12:06 .
Im gonna be a flight attendant just to make jokes like that 😂
I'm a flight attendant that finds himself burned out on travel and the industry from time to time. I come here to remind myself of the things I love about aviation. Thank you Alex.
I hear you about our airline industry for us crew members. I felt thst way until I went Hawaii. Kona and Kauai are beautiful islands.😊 Maui is gorgeous as well.😊
Try to find an explanation and describe that mystery that drives us to do things that we simply have to do - its called "passion".
Yes, being in Hawaii or being in the Caribbean is soo nice. Yes, the passion of the life in those paradise island places.😊
Thank you for taking care of us on our flights, I truly appreciate you souch😊❤❤
Tough job. Real men become flight attendants.
CONGRAUATIONS ON 100K
*133K
@@AirCadet_1no bro only has 114K not 133
@@AirCadet_1 At the time it was 100K
@@Hunter-McLeod And? I was just correcting u
My dad’s a pilot for Air Canada and a few years ago my family was able to watch on a livestream as he landed at St. Maarten
I really appreciate the little island tour you gave despite being an aviation channel, it's great to learn what a place like St. Maarten really has to offer! You should keep up on those tours wherever your travels may take you :) Congrats on your well deserved 100K, Alex!
No reply’s let me fix that
Also hi ICE711
Hi ice
“Pearson purgatory” …no truer words have been spoken 😂… and congratulations for your TH-cam success 🎉
Man, didn't every avgeek see those 480p videos back in the day... what a memorable trip!
In my case, even at 244p resolution, as strange as it may seem.
Congrats on 100k Alex! What a way to celebrate!
I miss your videos. I hope you are doing great. 😊
Well deserved 100K, congrats. Great vlog!
I always thought of you as the Bob Ross of aviation because of your calming voice
Also congrats on 100k!
That’s awesome Alex! Shame KLM doesn’t send their B747’s there anymore, I was there when I was young and I still remember the massive B747 flying right above my head.
Yeah, me too.
The economy is on the down side, not enough passengers to fill the massive KLM bird.
Gotta say something. On the aircraft you went back to calgary, thats the same aircraft i flew on to CYUL from MDPC on march 19th i was in row 36!
The water looks divine!
It's amazing that you visited this iconic place and this is well edited trip report
St Maarten is 100% on my travel list for both aviation and vacation reasons 🔥
I really hope you make it there one day it is 100 percent worth the trip, I’ve been visiting once a year since birth. It’s like a second home to me. I hope if you ever make it that it treats you well.
Congratulations, Alex, on getting to this amazing milestone. Happy to be one of the 100K and to see your trip report to St. Maarten. What a great way to celebrate.
Glad you got to make this trip. I really enjoyed my stay there many years ago. We rented a car and hit every beach there during one week.
The jet blast at that beach is no joke, saw a few people who were standing at the fence get blasted onto the road. I think that's why they put that mini fence in front of it now.
I think a woman actually died a couple years ago when she hit her head on the concrete barrier...
Awesome.
Thank you! 👍
6:53 I feel that.. as someone who use to travel down to the Caribbean for work from Toronto multiple times a year prayed they AC would switch to the A220/C-Series...
This particular 737 has not only been to St. Maarten, but also London UK a handful of times. It's definitely well traveled already...
I was bitten by the aviation bug when I was a very small boy. I got my pilot license at 16 and never stopped flying since then. I like your no nonsense style of making these flight videos. And now you are pushing almost 200k subscribers. Well done Alex.
Let me get this straight: I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone who deserves that 100k more than you do. Since I first started my aviation photography journey you have been the main person I have looked up to, and after 3 years, I still do. Meeting you is an absolute honour and I have a tremendous amount of respect for you.
Congrats on 100K Alex, I can’t wait to see what’s next 🫡
Congrats on 100k. Nice to see home town expertise with superior content. Great eye for composition, thank you.
100,000 subscribers is an impressive achievement. Congratulations. Prior to my retirement, I flew into several airports around the Caribbean but never Ste. Maarten - until now. I always enjoy your (enthusiastic but) relaxed, and informative narration. Thanks for sharing.
4:55 Wow! That map+prymary flight display is amazing!
Congratulations on 100K Alex! My wife and I have visited St Martin many times, we stay on the French side and just love it! Thanks for this video, glad you enjoyed !
Congratulations on 100k! This is one of my favourite channels on yt! I absolutely love plane spotting. Congratulations from your neighbouring province of Saskatchewan!
Congratulations on 100,000 subs! I love watching your videos. I just got back from a trip from Ocho Rios, Jamaica. I stayed at an all inclusive as well, and it was awesome. Our approach into Montego Bay airport was one of the coolest in my life. Caribbean airports are awesome. Keep up the great work!
18:21 Alex - you are hitting my heart 😂. This is the combo I am planning to do as well 😅😅😅
Grats on the 100 thousand, thats really rad, and thanks for sharing this little celebration with us. Heres hoping your next milestone and exciting trip come just as fast is not faster!
Thanks!
Thank you for this wonderful video of my island Sint Maarten. Your presentation is well on point
I felt what you said about it being the trip of a lifetime, mostly for an avgeek, thank you for sharing with us your adventures, always looking forward the next one!
Congratulations on the 100k and growing! I wanted to see this video so fast!
Great work!!! My 1st time was back in 2019. That beach was a bucket list one I’m glad I was able to tick off!
I think you have one of the best aviation/aircraft channel on this platform!! ✌️👍
ST Maarten is definitely one of the places on my bucket list to go visit
Make sure you bring a "bucket" of cash with you. It looks like a little island. While it is not a typical tax heaven, it still offers lots of tax advantages for certain industries. The number of private planes you have seen belong to people who come to the island "for business purposes" and they do have the money to stay in Hotels that exceed what ordinary people can afford. Same with Restaurants. You can find reasonable prices but you have to be careful where you sit down.
@@BernhardSchwarz-xs8kp ya
Congrats on 100K man! Looking forward to the video with all the goodness you filmed on St. Maarten.
at 14:44, there is a really rare find. I saw a qatar airways and was confused as I had never saw a route from doha to sint maarten. I was even more confused when I saw it was an 140 when those were retired a while ago. I looked it up, and saw it was for the Qatar Amiri Flight which is an airline for qatari government officials. So yeah, that's really rare and the only time it has ever flown into sint maarten.
This was a nice watch! Also seems like the Air Transat pilot recognized a fellow Canadian and gave a wave @17:26
Congratulations Alex. Amazing video like always!
First, I gotta say congrats on the 100K. Second, thanks for sharing this awesome vacation you had in St. Maarten! Looking forward to the full spotting vid as well.
Congrats on 100,000 followers and thank you for sharing your passion over all these years with others like myself who feel the same way AP. Cheers 🍻
Great one my friend, thank you for sharing 🎉
I love your videos! Simple, informative, not boastful at all!
Thank YOU, Alex! What a fantastic way to ring in 100,000. Hope that we continue seeing your content for years to come. Congratulations!! 😄🙌🏻✈️
17:23 Wow, that’s so amazingly made, really loved that montage! The whole Video was great still, and I like your stile of Humor and sense for great content :)
I'm happy that you were able to experience it. Hopefully you go back again at some point!
Thank you for sharing your experience during your trip of your lifetime.
We were suppose to go to Saint Martin in 2 weeks and my wife has a medical issue so we cant go and our friends are going still i am going to show them this video because we are alsostaying at Sonesta
Great Video Alex and we will get there some day soon
You’re videos are so cool Alex
Congrats on the 100k mate, an amazing achievement. Great videos and keep up the good work 🎉👌👍✈️
Looks like the one terminal is super nice as well and tons of great plane spotting areas
Well deserved 100K followers! Love your videos, thanks for taking us along.
Incredeble Alex!!! Congrats!!🎉
Thanks for uploading. I did a eerily similar trip the following november. Stayed in the same hotel, visited all the same places, I saw TNCM hundreds of times as a child too. 2008 era. It was so nice to see all of this again because it was incredibly sad to leave. Next time you go, hike up the main mountain Peak Paradise. One of my favorite pictures looking down at the french side.
Were you able to use the lounge at the connection airport (Toronto) since you purchased an upgrade? Is it me but does the “Max” series aircraft “rotate”(lift off) earlier than similar aircraft?
Awesome video. Maho is an unreal avgeek experience!!!!
Awesome video and looking forward to our visit soon in August
Amazing Video!! ✈️✈️
Your videos are great! Love how you don’t talk or play stupid music during takeoff like many others do. Thanks for sharing your vacation with us.
I really love St-Martin I wish I was in this great paradise😊❤🎉
Hi Alex, huge congratulations on passing the 100K threshold! I'm happy to have been subbed to you since 2012 (or 2013, either way back when you were dude8472productions), and see your channel grow to what it is today, from YYC plane spotting vids still with strictly smooth camerawork to world class flight reviews AND plane spotting vids with strictly smooth camerawork and more! Great way to celebrate by venturing to SXM - Sonesta was a great choice! Anyways, great job once again. Blue skies!
Thanks so much Ross! Hope everything's well with you these days :)
I enjoyed looking at this video it reminded me of my days growing up as a little boy on the neighbouring island of Anguilla and visiting St, Maarten very often .This video is a job well done.
Another great video, thanks Alex! Your video is the first one I have seen of St. Martin that showed more of the island than just the airport arrivals and departures!. I would love to visit someday, but we will see!!! Take care and stay safe!!!!
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers (including me)!
St Maarten is a place l would dearly love to visit.Watching your video was how l expected the place to be.Definitely high on my list to visit❤️👍!
Love your channel, been watching for years, I love how unique all your videos and trips are, not just another boring "LA to NYC"
Congratulations Alex on reaching 100k. I have been here for part of the ride and enjoyed it immensely...:):):)
First visitor here. Congrats on yout channel. Great videos! This one in particular made me be a little emotional I don't know why exactly. Thank you for sharing your experiences!
Always love to see your videos, but this one was a special treat asyou visited my home "town". Could you imagine in the late 80s maho beach use to be completely deserted. So my friend and I had the approaches of DC8s,9s,10s L1011 and the incensing on the cake the Panam 747sp all to ourselves 😊
Congratulations Alex. I love your fair and balanced flight reviews. Keep it up.
CONGRATS ALEX!!! its always nice to have an aviation TH-camr in my hometown
Hello Alex. Thank you for this super video. This is by far the best video I have watched on Sint Marten. From Calgary via Toronto, your landing on the Island and the surrounding seascape was heavenly. I have never been there but after watching your video I would certainly like to go there. Your hotel also looked lovely but best of all was your balcony overlooking the runaway. Certainly my kind of place. You can tell just how happy you were by your voice. The water looked so clear and it did remind me of The Big Island of Hawaii. We flew many times there via HNL with CP Air. Ive flown the 747 also the DC10s and even the old stretch DC8’s but that was history. I’m pleased your 747 Max flight was so enjoyable. Thank you.🛫🌠🌅
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers Alex! Very well deserved. The trip to Sint Maarten would be the perfect avgeek holiday. I visited the island in 2013 on a Caribbean cruise and would love to return. We had a great tour guide that day, who took us to Maho Beach among many other places. I was one of the few people on the tour who knew about it as I had been watching the KLM 747s coming and going on TH-cam.
Looks like a dream destination with tons of airlines and planes that are plenty big hope I could go someday
Great video! Went there years ago and really enjoyed the two cultures. Not to mention people getting blown around by the jet blast. Looking forward to more videos. :)
What a treasure to watch this video Alex! I’m honored to be a subscriber of your channel! This video was another quality and excellent work of art! That would have no doubt been an amazing and enjoyable adventure trip! I could tell while watching it! You really make some excellent videos and obviously memories for yourself! Stay warm up north! It’s finally turning into Springtime here in Iowa USA! Appreciate you Sir! Best regards always! Mark in Iowa.
I was there in December as well!!!
Looking myself in the video. We stayed at the Secrets resort.
Amazing video and amazing island can't wait to go back
Loved this episode. Great job Alex P.
👍🏿👍🏿
Another awesome trip report! Congrats my friend!
Good job on getting to 100k. I'm glad your videos are getting eyes.
3:57 Those GEnx engines on 787s never get’s old. P.S 747-8 and 748F use the same engines. One more thing congrats on your 100k.
I was there at the beginning of the month, and arrivals was done in this makeshift side building while departures was done in the main terminal
Been here 2 times in the last two years. A beautiful island, kind people, and I spent all 14 days swimming, and plane spotting (while swimming) at Maho.
Congrats on the success Alex! Love your videos, they're a must watch for Canadian aviation fans
One of the best trip reviews I've seen from St. Maarten. You really did it justice, I went back in 2022 and it was one of the most amazing places I've ever visited. When the Air France A330 departs west it's hilariously loud and I got a kick out of hearing all the car alarms going off!
Great video, glad you got a chance to go there. I have been to SXM as well, and loved it so much I made a second trip!
Great video, have you ever considerd going to Iceland and Greenland thay have a interesteing operaton specialy in Greenland (only dash 8's becuse you have not had enugh of the dash 8)
It's in the works!
Looks like a beautiful place. Congratulations on 100,000
Congratulations on hitting 100K! Appreciate what you provide to the aviation community.
Congrats on 100K Alex! Thanks for all your videos over the years
What a great video, thanks for sharing. Love your content.
What an enjoyable video!!! Thanks Alex, I think this was your best video yet...
Congrats Alex! I'm so happy you went there, and happy for your success!
Easily my favourite video of yours. Congratulations on 100k, here's to the next 100!
I just subscribed,You seem like a plane guy who has a travel tube. I like your neutral approach. Live video with no running yakking about what is happening. As a service employee, I enjoy the banter and follow a few who do show me the crew interaction. You are very informative and I look forward to more of your work. Be well and stay safe and enjoy life.
Congrats one the milestone. Cheers from YOW
Excellent Video . We visited here in January from the UK . An absolute must for aviation lovers .
Congratulations on 100K man! I’m proud to be a part of your community! Keep up the great work!
Congrats on 100K!
Congrats to 100000k! And if someone should get it it was you, all your videos are amazing not just for the fun off watching them but also for the sheer interest you show for them, this channel wouldn’t have been like this with someone else, and I thank you for all these years off content. And I hope there will be many more to come.