Ciao, dear reader,
anyone here remembers the embarrassment of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud in April?.
A trip to Sardinia was planned, but not possible.
Sardinia to build is absolutely interesting, the task is now a trip around the state-subsidized Olbia-Cagliari.
Mixed feelings today. Why?.
five flights on the schedule, track one is ok.
track two with a time of change, a message informed me of the airline, not a real problem for the rest of the day.
While preparing one weeks notice before my flight I do, that route is deleted three, no news from the airline.
few phone calls to show me that I'm rebooked on the next flight, two hours later, too late for my booked haul four and five.
The promised confirmation never arrives, but I find a new solution for the lines four and five.
are at the end of the second and third sections not open to the online check-in, the system responds in each case with an "error".
Now, on to Italy, a country that I like.
And this country is also home to the airline on routes two and three, or even for the young man in front of me at the security checkpoint with an expensive-looking Rolex on her wrist. Well, that now is not really anything special, but when the same clock and on the right wrist with, that's even more interesting!.
Here again the current route map:
Reporter's Trip View flights on a larger map
And my departure airports:
Departure airports on a larger map
's Sunday, 10/31/2010
STR (Stuttgart Airport)
OLB (Aeroporto di Olbia Costa Smeralda)
AB 8942 plans implemented by bmi TuiFly
: 06.00 / / 07:55
What about my earlier promise to be at the airport?.
Boarding for the first flight of the day is printed for 05.15 clock. The cell phone calls me
03.00 clock, on the way and at 04.00 clock in the terminal at 05:00 clock, leading enough?.
Online check-in works very well on airberlin's website, the last row of the window as usual, 25F, on this flight.
I've booked directly with bmi, the lowest price, my bmi credit card helps to reduce the fees, the collective's € 40.00.
This is the way to Terminal 4
A good number of tourist night flights is coming to
The screen with my flight, Antalya is probably the favorite today
thousands of travelers on of the Safety Control in Terminal 3 and to believe more staff than passengers in Terminal 1, just fine for me today.
The 331 is my husband just before boarding time, where are the passengers?
It is a bus gate, boarding begins at 05.30 clock.
The only bus drives us over the apron, with huge 14 passengers on board, that means a workload of less than 10% at this early Sunday morning.
Mostly Italian traveler on the go.
D-AHXC waiting for us, the planned 737-700. In operation since 09.05.2007 for TuiFly and currently en route for Emirates.
X3 operates 10 aircraft of this type.
My third flight on this Registration and No. 30 on the -700 series
start of the path 25 to clock 06.05, more or less on time, It is partly cloudy at 7 degrees this morning.
1 hour, 40 minutes after Sardinia.
Three flight attendants are today, a middle-aged man, ok. He tells me when we talk about the weak capacity that the return flight is booked to pursue such interesting usage differences.
He is working with the purser, middle-aged, well ok and very good looking, but cold young woman, all from Germany.
The cockpit crew is from Germany.
The pilot with a brief welcome as we wait in the car to the takeoff.
The security card
The empty and dark room, I take the second to last row, 24F.
Dark gray leather seats, clean, the place is feeling ok.
The seat backs can be adjusted and the safety demonstration will be on the screens
muffin and coffee, ok for me
flies The co-pilot, he logs on the road with extensive information in a loose kind
The führrt route to Innsbruck, Verona, Bologna, Florence and Rome on 37000 feet.
strong cross wind over the Alps, very turbulent for 30 minutes, clouds, not a view most of the time.
A ray of sunlight hits the Winglet
The pilot logs on again during the approach with more information.
We should arrive at the station 06, that means a few minutes and curves more than planned, but then switched to a direct approach for the railway 24th
Sardinia on the horizon
green hills in the blue sea
A cargo ship
Shortly before landing
A cruise ship at the exit from Port Olbia
We the 2446 meter track 24 left at 07.55 clock, perfectly on time, cloudy sky and the temperature is 16 degrees
What a beautiful machine parked here
alighting on a finger
With another MD at the gate next to
Sunday, 31/10/2010
OLB (Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda)
CAG (Aeroporto di Cagliari-Elmas Mario Mameli)
Service IG conducted in 1332 Designed by Meridiana
: 11.45 / / 12:25
Olbia, a new entry in my logbook, and the city is new to me.
no question that the first idea is to go into the city, but shortly after my arrival, it starts to rain, so we move the town to a new date.
The thing with the highest priority in the non-online check-in is now switches to the Meridiana to look at, no vending machines available.
Lucky for me, a very nice middle-aged workers stopped their work by a former Meridiana flight. At first she responds
me that it's too early for check-in is, but no luggage help once again. She walks around the corner to Meridiana office comes back to me and I'm already checked.
On my paper is classical space 20A, the two-seater on the disc.
Online check-in is a joke, I'm checked in as passenger No. 1.
I've booked directly through Meridiana,
price 50.00 €'s.
The switch from the top
A look at the terminal, not really up-to- Top level, but clean and spacious luxury advertising
The rain stops, good for me to look at the environment.
The priority
a yacht and beautiful chair
That should be a good place to track the activities, at least in good weather
The terminal
No one at the security checkpoint,
the right time for me and soon I'm in the gate area. Many
comfortable seats with good view of the apron
the airline No. 1 here for
night flights the perfect day
hard to believe I am the only passenger in the entire gate region
The non-Schengen area
My Gate 4 on my flight "in Orario"
It is interesting again to observe the people at the gate.
Most, if not all, except me, Italian passengers, many older travelers, as this white-haired couple with no less than seven parts of cabin baggage at the gate. Impressive, what entrains everything when traveling from North to South-Sardinia.
Several businessmen and some staff, but also by Meridiana by Alitalia.
Local Products from Sardinia
three incoming flights Meridiana, which is to be my machine
Hi, that's my gate
And my machine
Parked at the gate
Another MD landing
Parked at the gate next to it
Looks great
boarding at I-SMEP, an MD82, first in use at Alisarda from 21.08.1989 and since 09.01.1991 Meridiana. We have nine in the MD82 fleet.
A new entry in my log and track number 9 on this type
MD paradise, five active machines on the ramp and at the gates
Now for boarding
We Olbia leave with a new rain
my seat to the rear emergency exit, I take 33E, three places for me
A curve to the web
start of 06, the other side than on landing.
clock is 11.50, almost on time, light rain and the temperature is 16 degrees.
not specified Duration
The cabin crew is from Italy, four women, ok, but nothing special.
The pilots are also from Italy, no comment from the front, no service on this short flight.
Over the sea
The cabin is equipped with dark-blue old-fashioned leather seats, well used, but clean so far, little leg room and very loud, capacity utilization is at 70%
Enormous curves
over some small islands
no data to track or altitude, heavy clouds move.
The security card
The good-looking magazine
The seats in the details
Approaching Cagliari
Green fields
safe side to her that is a runway there?
water right next
landing on the 2805 meter run 14, It is 12.25 clock, on time and the temperature is 20 degrees, cloudy but dry.
Danube Wings on the apron
off at the rear staircase, I like the
This is the way to leave a plane in style
Not many passengers use the rear stairs
Looks dirty from
The rear
A full view
Registration
The hull
by bus to the terminal and in the public sector.
Sunday, 10/31/2010
CAG (Aeroporto Cagliari-Elmas Mario Mameli)
FCO (Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Roma Fiumicino)
service done IG 1471 Designed by Meridiana
: 16.30 / / 17.40
Again fortunately for me, a Meridiana switch is open, no other passengers . see First, the employee is
nice little upset with my posting, the original IG 1491 Start clock at 14.00 - 15.10 clock, painted and re-booked on that flight. No luggage
help again and my boarding pass is printed, seat 30A, the last two-seater, the back kitchen and the emergency exit.
I'm busy again directly from Meridiana, the price of 80.00 Euro's.
An earlier experience with this Airline shows me that there is a phone number for international calls, but which, logically, is occupied by mostly Italian-speaking agents.
I am in contact with the German Meridiana sales team, the staff has followed my transfer, but not confirm the possibility that she knows the situation with the non-English speaking staff in Italy. Even with its always a problem and it gives me another phone number.
Now, six or seven tests in English until a staff member talks, confirmed the transfer, but I get no mail. No problem then at the end.
The airport and the city is in my logbook, I decide to stay here to the airport to go and watch the traffic.
The terminal with a few palm trees
A large building
A palm tree in detail
The an airy and spacious building
My machine is parked since the arrival on the tarmac. The next
Meridiana flight is mine and it does not arrive until more is there.
I like the MD, but I need a new registration
Passat Congress Sardinia
Eagles Airlines, based in Venice, has three ex-Regional Fokker 100's, maybe
My flight without comment from 12th Gate But what do
Airlines and Adria Airways here, both for non-scheduled flights to Cagliari?
VW presents new Passat for its dealers and rents a variety of planes to fly back and forth all users, every day at this long weekend.
Airberlin at the gate and another Meridiana MD in the background, my machine? refueled
Adria way to Berlin
through security without waiting in the gate area and
EI-CKM to fly my chances of this new registration increase
The crew leaves the gate and a bus exactly gone to this machine, we are passengers in another bus not long after
MD is 82 on the engine, but according to my sources there is an MD83.
A plane with a long, and German history.
route number 10 on the `83 and a new registration.
the first use in Mexico at Aerocancun, from 11/22/1989. To Spain to Oasis International on 05/22/1991, back to Aerocancun on 01/12/1991.
in Germany from 12.22.1994 for Aero Lloyd and on to Turkey on 04.03.1995 to Sunways, with Meridiana from 03/06/1998. A
8 MD83 in the current use
No chance for me to miss the back stairs when ever possible
is up the stairs
The rear
The dirty engines
Well, as we know, the feeling most of the passengers nothing special in this way and get off at the front door a
from the machine onto the apron
Other seats here, 32E, and three places for me.
Dark blue leather, little legroom, the seat back is adjustable and the safety demonstration is manual.
utilization is 60%
The cockpit crew is from Italy, the pilot with a very nice welcome during boarding.
Four women from Italy in the cabin, all nice and ok so far.
The empty, rear cabin
start of the coastal lakes of web 14
It is 16.25 clock, just before schedule, cloudy but warm, 22 degrees.
No data on flight duration, may not be common at Meridiana?
And the coastline
I leave Sardinia
EI-CKM above the clouds
both in the mainland Italy
The old-fashioned cabin
free drinks, no information about the route or altitude .
The security card
seats and the emergency exit
The seat back
The pilot logs on again with short information during the approach.
We fly along the coast, the airport was visible before
Approaching a curve towards domestic
approach to the 3900 meter track
16L
, it is 17.20 clock, twenty minutes ahead of schedule it is cloudy and windy, the temperature is 16 degrees. The rear cabin
in detail
City Airline to the MD87
on the apron
by bus to the terminal.
Sunday, 10/31/2010
FCO (Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Roma Fiumicino)
FRA (Frankfurt am Main)
performed Planned Service Lufthansa LH 239 of
: had booked 19:20 / 21:20
I
FCO -MUC-STR-ZRH-FCO with the first departure at 17.30 clock.
early, as we know, so I canceled the entire reservation.
My well-filled-and-More Miles account, and a nice 15,000 miles offer me the opportunity
FCO-FRA-STR-ZRH-FCO einzubuchen new, suitable for my landing later. to pay more
15 000 miles of the taxes and fees and so my credit card account wins this time the back taxes and fees booked from the first reservation.
Online check-in is quick on the Lufthansa site, 36F, the last row window and ask some comfort for me. Business
would be possible for only 10,000 miles more, but my sense of southern Germany prevented here to upgrade.
no further security checks, time for some airport photo attempts. see
No chance, a plane of the D-Gates to spend my way the time
Everything looks ok for Frankfurt to Gate D09
The terminal is worn and unkempt, dirty toilets, closed Shops
The only thing to notice at the gate, is a Lufthansa tail fin close to my gate and there should be nothing else works, it is probably not Lufthansa's fault.
Boarding is printed for 18.50 clock, but among many passengers at the gate, no further movement.
passengers pass through the terminal and linked to a range gate changes, not pleasant for the less experienced travelers here.
then begins to board, according to a paper to the aircraft door, it is D-AISV, the planned Airbus A321, "Bingen", a new registration, flight number 18 for me to
diesm type.
In use at Lufthansa since the 30/09/2009 and one of 43 in the current fleet.
The security card
The cabin is equipped with light gray leather seats, clean, the room is feeling ok in the last row and the seat backrest can be adjusted.
The security information is manual.
I'm not thrilled when I enter the last passenger and me with the nice purser at the door and keep him until the others are gone.
utilization is 100% occupied all three seats in my row
The cockpit crew is from Germany, the pilot with a detailed welcome during boarding.
Very slow release here in Fiumicino and we may wait a few minutes until everything is finished.
Start of the 3900 meter track 16R, it is 19.50 clock, 30 minutes late, 16 degrees, cloudy and very windy now here in Rome.
1 hour, 25 minutes from Frankfurt.
The cabin crew is a nice young man and three women, one younger, two middle-aged, all nice and ok.
A sandwich is on offer along with a chocolate bars and drinks.
The co-pilot logs on the road with detailed information but no altitude.
The route via Venice-Innsbruck and Munich with strong winds and possible turbulence over the Alps, as in the morning.
Well, that was violently agitated just after the start, ok for 20 minutes and then by a Led to another,
everything is calm, the flight attendants make the service, the machine will jump up and down like a rubber ball, the service is set for 15 minutes, but the seat belt sign remains on for the rest of the flight.
It is almost impossible to write or read.
What is this, any ideas?
We fly south of the airport along with the lights of runway 18 and a departing aircraft.
landing on the 4,000-meter rail 07R, it is 21.35 clock, 15 minutes late, cloudy 10 degrees and light.
The pilot is at the door while of dropping out, a nice touch.
The screen confirms my D-AISV
At the gate at 21.40 clock, exactly ten minutes to the boarding for the flight. Get off the finger gate A26.
A good way to go to the next gate A02 as on my paper.
Sunday, 10/31/2010
FRA (Frankfurt am Main)
STR (Stuttgart Airport)
Service Lufthansa LH 136 from Planned performed Lufthansa CityLine
: 22.20 / / 23:00
saw the planned link of Munich more time between landing and the last flight of the day before.
Munich this year is still not appeared on my route card and my Frequent Traveller status allows me to access the lung, but not today, at least not in Munich.
And with this very short transfer time is not here in Frankfurt.
The screen shows me D-ACPJ for Stuttgart
Now, some pictures, the usual visit to the toilet before boarding an airplane and I'm probably one of the last passengers at the gate.
Fifteen minutes from arrival at the gate A26 to boarding gate A02, not lost a minute!.
by bus across the tarmac to my plane
It is really D-ACPJ
"Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz", the proposed CRJ700
is in service with Lufthansa CityLine since 18/07/2002. One of
currently 20 in the fleet.
Route No. 6 for me, more than 250 flights since the last of this type and what was a coincidence, at exactly the same plane, the second flight with this machine
boarding
I Checked for 18F, the aisle seat is occupied, but no later boarding Lufthansa together with a Co-pilot helps even more, the number 12 is free, it takes 12A and I 12F.
start of the 4000 meter track 18, it is 22.25 clock, almost on time, 10 degrees, partly cloudy, the flight time is only 20 minutes to Stuttgart.
The security card
Two middle-aged women in the cabin, well, business-friendly. The cabin equipped
with light gray leather seats, the backrest can not adjust, worn and not really comfortable.
The safety demonstration is manually
The cockpit crew is from Germany, while the pilot with a nice welcome of the boarding.
No service, no information about the route or altitude.
landing then on Stuttgart's runway 07, it is 22.50 clock, ten minutes ahead of schedule,
also sunny and 10 degrees.
No question, the winner of the day is with the MD's Meridiana.
I like this entering and exiting through the rear stairs, very special.
Not long now until the next story: Three
'Lounges and the classic, Green MD.
soon,
the trip reporter
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