Recensione Lufthansa/Brussels Airlines: NAP-MUC-BRU-EDI / DUB-NAP
Rapid City, Bali, Timbuktu… I know, I know, This Trip Report will sound just as exotic or for airlines, nor to destinations. Yet, at least for me, presents a particular news, or try the whisk Dash8-400. 🙂
For other reasons, the absolute necessity was having to move quickly to Monaco, early in the morning, then continue.
This implies at least one stop but, in airports like FRA and MUC, you gladly bear a lengthening of travel time (species in the case of MUC).
It starts early in the morning from NAP. Due to problems with the system of online check-in, you must use the self check-in machines, and so, verso le 5, after finding parking, you arrive at a terminal where, Despite the hour, There are already a number of queues at banks AZ, but also those in which, Date l'ORA, presumably check in desk for charter vacationers.
Most of the crowd, as always, è in zona LH, for the FRA and MUC early morning.
It is true, Italians are not known for having a great familiarity with anything having electronic circuits inside, and yet I can not explain why, for an operation that requires thirty seconds like the self check-in, many employ 5/6 minutes.
It must be said that was not present lass LH to help passengers in this operation. The reason I think I intuit: the management information system storage, from what I hear, is blocked, no case can be accepted, and workers running to and fro.
Someone starts to get impatient because, after an hour in the queue, do not get news, and it must be said that it is not pleasant to be pressed like sardines with other 350 people, without possibility of moving.
When the FRA, at least in theory, I guess that should have already embarked, an attendant of land (GH handling, perhaps?) asks what the pax direct to FRA, which slowly go away from the baggage drop. I guess they boarded the luggage in any other way, to avoid unacceptable delay.
The MUC is theoretically late, but at some point the system will unlock, and the poor operator may begin to accept your luggage. The business desk is impresenziato (probably the luggage had been boarded just before a crash occurs, not ne ho idea), and then the operations are of a slowness extreme.
I ask because you do not even open the bench J, since we are already late, and the lady agreed that, One, perhaps it is a good idea…
Let controls in record time, despite the crowds, and just before the 7 you end up embarking. To hear the voices, the composition is heterogeneous: German tourists, Italian in connection, emigrants, Russians.
Thursday 8 August 2013
NAP-MUC
Flight: LH1931
Class: And
Seat: 16F
Eqp: Airbus A321
Reg: D-AIDB
Air Time: 1h14m
Scheduled: 635-820
Block to block: 700-827
The LF 100%
LF C The moment I stepped, there were less than a dozen people. Unfortunately I do not remember how many rows of C were present, but I think 6. In short, LF a little higher than the 50%.
Nothing more than the usual pitch, that, combined with new seats, acceptable to make a trip 2/3 hours, for a person to 1.80m.
Next door is an E175 AZ, I guess directed to LIN or Sicily.
Departure for rwy 24
Direction Campi Flegrei, via Mergellina
After half an hour exact, service begins (there will be additional steps of beverages). Frighteningly sweet biscuit, a wide selection of juices and soda.
Honorable Mention for the napkin, and for its in-flight magazine article, where we talk about the behind the scenes.
Pleasantly overcast sky of the Alps and Bavaria.
Finally, during descent you can not see anything, and in less than no time we touch down with only 7 minutes late.
For those interested,, I created a video-collage Rise, down, agtterraggio and taxiing:
The pier C FCO, right?
We attack the kingdom LH, accanto ad un Marcione.
The other side, it is always a pleasure to see certain guests.
Landed, the screen only shows the connections for the next 60 minutes, with a lot of direction: uk, EEA, PHL (US), Germany, Russia the most popular.
After getting some chores, is the case of readings engage in extremely challenging, and take advantage of bunks kindly mated for the previous night.
Per i geek, free wifi offering over 10Mbps in download, and over 20 in upload. Sigh.
After a couple of hours, is now embarking on the second leg, this time operated by LH Cityline by the same T1.
The shipment will be made by Cobus.
Sottopasso AMS style
IL 330 office, charging and.
View from below
…and front
I vicini, clearly, are all CL
Thursday 8 August 2013
MUC-BRU
Flight: LH2286
Class: And
Seat: 19A
Eqp: Embraer E195-LR
Reg: D-AEBP
Air Time: 1h3m
Scheduled: 1050-1210
Block to block: 1046-1205
LF 11%. only 13 persons on board. A bargain!
Safety card anche in francese. Legroom acceptable.
Goodbye, is always a pleasure.
Ads board in German, French and Dutch.
After only 13 minutes, just as the number of pax, it's time to eat. Crostini, salmon and a creamy mayonnaise and vegetables almost passable, and a wide choice of drinks.
I do not know what happened to them then the AV, but it is reasonable that they went to play in the back tresette.
As it happens, for some reason, the pilot “circumnavighi” throughout the city, thus offering an all-round view on the Belgian cpaitale.
Naked as the day did.
Here is a video collage of taxing, take-off, around… tourism in the city, take-off and taxiing towards the gate.
Still the pier FCO, so great as to be seen in Germany, surface in Belgien.
Welcome to Brussels. Thanks.
Descent to get to the gates B
Tapes from Gates roulant e T (recent, Creed, Extra EU, because I saw a police)
Pur essendo home SN, there are beautiful whales Eastern, with a decent crowd to wait for the boarding would begin shortly thereafter. Idem per i tantissimi voli Thomas Cook / Jetairfly.
Finally I can catch Hainan, while detached from the gate.
In short, verso le 15, embark from the B gates by Cobus, through the part of the airport dedicated to cargo, dominated by DHL, to get on the apron where there seem to be only dedicated turboprop.
The pax seem to be all Belgian tourists and Scottish, visiting in the respective countries, with a predominance of the hosts, presumably attracted by the Festival which takes place every August in the Scottish capital.
this, as other regional flights SN, è operated by FlyBe, in this case with staff totally British.
Thursday 8 August 2013
BRU-EDI
Flight: SN2063
Class: And
Seat: 16D
Eqp: Bombardier Dash 8-400
Reg: G-Ecok
Air Time: 1h30m
Scheduled: 1510-1605
Block to block: 1523-1605
LF 90%. A few, sparse vacancies.
IL “arena” off after a while and salt with a remarkable rate. Indeed, in the place where I was sitting, I would have expected a lot more vibration transmitted from the wing to the fuselage, but both the vibrations noise were lower my expectations.
No time to take the safety card, who immediately leaves the Continent.
Safety card and sinister advertising that enhances the characteristics of regional-beater.
The logbook, just to accept, recalls how the Italians have long to deal with the adventures of a certain political, and with tax evasion. La Dolce Vita is over long ago.
After about 40 minutes, served a quick snack, and a passage of soft drinks, followed by an excellent chocolate Neuhaus, just as you can see the SE coast of England.
To remind pax who have approached the coasts of Her Majesty, time changes suddenly, and did not see anything, until the descent begins, shortly after 1530.
A few minutes of landing, gear down, and privileged position to enjoy the scene.
With a hellish noise, it touches the ground on time, and needless to say the weather does not bode well, because after a few minutes it would rain.
Who wants to, can see some phases of cruise, descent and landing in this video (where, in the final part, si può udire Freddy Kruger al lavoro):
By Cobus you can see a few grains, as an Aer Arann ATR, Bmi ed BEM (I did not think there were still in this livery). All the rest is dominated by FR/U2/LS.
Control documents, message usually shown in more and more parts, esclusivamente in lingua italiana, which reminds us that, not, identity card (species with stamp renewal) is not the ideal document, and to avoid problems of delays to the controls, please use the passport.
Case withdrawn almost instantly on the tape.
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Second part – DUB-FRA-NAP with LH
In short, between the city, the Atlantic coast and the area to the north, time flies, and an SMS LH reminiscent of the start gate, sounds like a sentence without appeal.
Take advantage of the wifi widespread in most of the public bus to check in online with your phone, right to block the desired seats, and not risk ending up in the queue between Galeazzi and a Texan with cholesterol problems.
LH offre 3xd verso FRA (S13), one of which is impossible to 530, one at 1210, and one at 1755, but cuts off a part of the European connections.
The flight leaves at a time all in all comfortable, thus avoiding to make up early or go to bed with the chickens.
We start from the T1, so not that cool (T2) which operate the hosts of EI, the American, and the UAE.
View of T2 from the T1 antestante
Area check-in e FIDS, with a predominance of Irish (with four-leaf clover or harp that is).
Self check-in and luggage forwarding occur quickly and without problems, thanks to all the pax of German nationality who were in row.
The area controls, verso le 10, is rather clogged, probably because of Air Transat flights to YYZ and YUL that they would be leaving shortly.
Verso duty free e gates 1xx
Gates 3xx
Free Wifi (with severe restrictions on VoIP services) throughout the terminal, chairs and tables for charging electronic devices are available in a tight angle.
LH, the ubiquitous TK and, background, un Kalitta Air (I do not know if coming from Wisconsin or Europe).
EI for Blackpool, U.S. to PHL, UA per (mi pare) EEA
330 EI arrived a bit '. It is not known where.
Air Transat ed AC
Indication of U.S. customs preclearance where possible. A special all-Ireland.
Shortly before 1130, for some reason, the voltage rises to a thousand. “Panico land”, titolerei, if I worked for Open Studio. The fear of losing the flight or having to do the whole trip standing is strong, so better start to get in line, waiting to open boarding, non to the mai. In case you’re wondering, were not Italian.
Thursday 22 August 2013
DUB-FRA
Flight: LH979
Class: And
Seat: 15A
Eqp: Airbus A321
Reg: D-AIRR
Air Time: 1h33m
Scheduled: 1210-1515
Block to block: 1208-1508
The LF 100%
LF C 70%
Check out with two minutes early. In fact, agreed to wait in line he started boarding, since they are left with two minutes early! 🙂
After half an hour the service starts, consisting of a sandwich (meat loaf, meatloaf, mAh) pork with salad, uova and mayonnaise, and a wide selection of drinks.
Totally uneventful flight and with zero visibility because of the clouds, up the hill in Hesse.
A accecante D-ABVX
* A house that is you hardly notice
Welcome
Descent and landing in video:
Almost 5h30m connection may be passed at the airport only for work, or why cuffed in a police office with some egg suspect in the stomach.
The S-Bahn allows you within minutes of being in Frankfurt Hbf., the Frankfurt Central Station, I did not imagine hiding something characteristic, among its skyscrapers.
Hall of T1 and spectacular model cicciobus
Verso i gates A
Security Quick stranamente, with the result of having more than an hour waiting to be used in spotting / wireless / coffee
CA PEK
Cicciobus and 744 LH
*A@gates A e SAS in historic livery (unfortunately covered in half)
At this point, Shortly before 2000 (boarding open after ca. 20 minutes), the first pax (of C), evidently having heard the panic ground triggered to DUB and the risk of having to take two hours in the foot, really wants to stage a mexican standoff with the two involved boarding. There is a close, and stares at the gate.
After a while you hear phrases like “vabè than, avviamoci us too”, and as in a chain reaction, slowly form a long tail. Remains a certain distance between the other pax, and the protagonists of the mexican standoff.
the composition is heterogeneous, ranging from German tourists, Italian tourists in connection LR, the Russians (as the MUC), African, Americans, some immigrant.
Thursday 22 August 2013
FRA-NAP
Flight: LH336
Class: And
Seat: 9A
Eqp: Airbus A320
Reg: D-AIZQ (sharklet!)
Air Time: 1h28m
Scheduled: 2040-2235
Block to block: 2037-2218
The LF 90%, occasional vacancy
LF C lower than the 50%
We are next door to a 737-500
Solita card, usually legroom
Si va
After only 20 minutes, serve a double sandwich, one of which is identical to that of the lunch, and the other vegetarian (tomato, cheddar and do not know what) and there is a double passage of soft drinks.
Ad a certain point, in the back row, tempers start to heat up: The debate centers on how much water to put together with cement. The more the two gentlemen debate, more voices are raised, more slamming his fists on the table behind my back, more glances of other passengers look in that direction.
Date l'ORA, fatigue, there was silence in the rest of the cabin, I know, even if it is not nice, it was necessary to ask politely to postpone the interesting debate the next morning.
Nola Interport (Creed)
Incoming
Appena termina il thurst reversing, takes the applause followed by an instant and choral sound of belts that loose, and the first smartphone ringtones. 🙂
V7 to JTR, LH da MUC, 772 JL (Japan Airlines) per Tokyo (unfortunately we approached more)
obviously, parked next to an EMB AZ.
Outside there is a double temperature than the one I left in the morning, and a humidity hell. You put your luggage on the same tape of LH, V7 and some AZ, has certainly not helped to reclaim their baggage in a short time. The heat, was a kind of torture. ok,.
That’s it, I hope you enjoyed. 🙂