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Zdravo, dear readers,

there is also this time the final leg to go:




Thanx once again to:

http://www.gcmap.com/


Monday, 14.10.2013

FRA (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main)
STR (Flughafen Stuttgart)

Service LH 136 operated by Lufthansa
Scheduled:  21.55  //  22.35

Here we see the final edition of the Tripreporter 2013 data:


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And here is 2014 actually:


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All the visited countries:


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A couple of plane types:


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Airlines, maybe?:


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The visited airports:


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And some more:


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And welcome to the short one twice, the flight and the plane!.
This is the second part of the aforementioned Exp.de ticket,
the fare again 65.00 Euro´s.
A swift view for the Star Lounge, slightly less crowded than the last time but anyway nothing special and onwards for the flight.
Here we see at gate A26 D-ABIB, "Esslingen", the name and the direction to fly suits well!.
A classic 737-500, leg no. 37 on type and new to the log.
Since 18.12.1990 around with mainly LH and a short lease out to Smartwings in between.
16 examples are in the fleet and also here, there are no stories to show


Cabin crew is two male FA´s, one young and nice, the other one middle aged and ok, together with a senior woman, nice. Cockpit crew sounds according to the names showed by the purser from Germany, but not a single word to hear from upfront at all. Also no service on this leg.
Don´t talk about any route or flightlevel info.
Just to confirm


9.45 pm, ten minutes ahead to schedule, 30 minutes by "Lufthansa" again and departure from the 4000 meters runway "One-Eight", in theory!.
And this is a strange one and also one to show me how important it is to use the seatbelt.
It seems the pilots have the closing time in view. A fast taxi and turn on the runway, stopped for some seconds only till the engines spooled up and we are on the way.
No, not really, heavy breaking action and we stopped again a good couple of meters down the runway.
Some five minutes more in this position without any comment till the engines spooled up again and we departed successful this time.
The legroom is good here with the new style, clean dark grey leather seats.
The load is 80%. 10E, the exit row and two for me


Not that I´ve talked about it before, this one is not here to confirm the plane type and the actual magazine


Touchdown at "Two-Five", 10.30 pm, short ahead to schedule.  
The seats and bye now at the homebase


The place to have a rest now, at least for D-ABIB!



Well, also today, here are the conclusions:

1.)JAT STR-BEG: My personal tribute to the JAT part 1 done.
2.)JAT BEG-VIE: Is it JAT or Alitalia?. Anyway tribute part 2 completed.
3.)Lufthansa VIE-FRA: Comfy so far on the A321.
4.)Lufthansa FRA-STR: A shorty nightride for the homebase.

By the way, leg no. 4 today is also recorded as leg no. 998 at all.
So it seems there is a kind of jubilee coming up sometimes in the far future!.
And now, just for the case, if there is someone waiting for this question!.
And now?. Yes, exactly this one!.
There is such an terrible experience coming up.
Imagine, I´am so anxious, I´ve booked and they confirmed an up-to-date, top notch, safe and reliable plane with two engines like the A321 and what´s waiting on the apron?. Something scary with four engines. Should I really fly or maybe better protesting?.
Talking about the apron.
Imagine, me together with 1000 other pax in one bus, driving the long, long way around till the very last corner.
It feels so dangerous to walk close to under an engine or maybe even under the wing when you try to board the plane in the much to bright sun under this much to blue sky. Never again.
Imagine, I´ve read about, that exactly this type of plane needs a 10000 meters runway, much more than on offer here and it´s so slow in the air.
That´s so hazardous.
And to board this plane you should climb up a thousand of step´s till you finally, finally reach the plane.
And imagine, they don´t even show me the way to my seat, no, they told me to sit where I like with hundred so it seems seats open for me.
This is so hard to decide, I need an hour or so finally and no one helps me!.
Isn´t this the worst experience ever?.
Ahem, I´am still searching for the out-of-irony button here on this keyboard and I´am still searching, searching............



Zbogom za sada, take care.
The TRIPREPORTER