أهلا و سهلا, Selam and Hello, dear readers,
I´am in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, an amazing place, but I should fly again right now:
Thanx once again to:
http://www.gcmap.com/
Thursday, 05.12.2013
ADD (Addis Ababa Bole International Airport)
CDG (Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle)
Service ET 704 operated by Ethiopian Airlines
Scheduled: 23.55 // 05.45
This is a view for all the visited countries, Ethiopia is counted with no. 61:
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A new entry is also to see with ADD and the visited airports at no. 285:
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The previous 200 visited places:
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The final Tripreporter 2013 map:
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And this is 2014, at least till now:
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Ethiopian Airlines is new with the checked airlines at no. 176:
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And the plane types recorded are also here:
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Lots of people around. Night curfew?. Noise restrictions?. For sure not here in Ethiopia!
Addis works also with the security at the entrance system.
Me and the bag checked the relaxed style and in the terminal soon thereafter
Not that long to wait at the counter, a nice young Ethiopian woman at work.
This time the flight is well loaded, but the last row two seater is open and some talking later she offered the window and also blocked the aisle. Really well done service here in Addis.
Some thirty minutes at passport check and security with the usual scenes.
Senior travellers cutting the queue with a short connection,
such a short one like it later turns out when the young guy at the front asked about, with pax in the queue on earlier flights. Well, it´s the rule also in Ethiopia, seniors and trust me, not the african Seniors, no these are the European seniors, always first.
Further for a view to the screen
Paris and onwards for BRU looks like ok.
And a 767, the classic one, is waiting at gate 2.
315.00 Euro´s is the fare here, fixed by Opodo.de, another one way booking.
I don´t use the lounge this time, it looks like packed with people standing around.
Well, gate 2, always interesting to follow baggage loaded to you´re plane and not that long thereafter unloaded again.
Some confusion later, sure this is Africa, the gate changed and it looks like we´re on the tech track.
Well again, there is an connection upcoming, one of these feasible examples during booking, on different tickets of course.
And when it comes closer it feels like the guy at the controls had a cup of the strong black stuff to much when he pressed the book it button!.
By bus right now and there is another 763 on the apron
So this is ET-ALP, another one without an individual name and the 763 like on schedule.
New to the log and leg no. 9 on type
13 examples are in the fleet and with a delivery date at 22.06.2005 this is the newest example
This machine is also known here:
http://avherald.com/h?article=4339a581&opt=0
Also by night, I like apron boarding!
And especially around the big birds, you know!
Bye now to "Addis Ababa Bole International Airport", 0.00 am it is, short after schedule, 7.20 hours by "Ethiopian"
and departure from the 4604 meters "Zero-Seven-Left" at 8 degrees and clear sky.
Cockpit crew, at least the "Captain" sounds english native, with a short welcome in an experienced style at the runway entrance. Nice and short again prior to descent.
Routing is Khartoum-South Eastern Egypt-North Eastern Lybia-Trapani-Ajaccio-Nice-Dijon at 34000 till 36000 feet.
My pleasure, you know!
40 A/B for me.
And this is certainly a step back in time with the direct comparison to the 787 on the inbound.
The legroom is remarkable lower and the whole cabin looks like somewhat retro.
Here is the actual magazine
The load is 80%, locals and westerners well mixed.
The safety card and the cabin with the really well used fabric seats
Not that really clean it is
Cabin crew serving my seat is a middle aged woman, large, slim, black hair, really nice.
Nice staff all around and HSN suits me well,
rice, tomato sauce and herbs
Well, the short nights are calling discret, but also permanently till close to the "Aéroport Roissy Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle"
Touchdown at the 4215 meters "Two-Six-Right", 05.45 am, perfectly ontime and 7 partly cloudy degrees.
Welcome again to good old Europe
Immigration works swiftly and there is an intra terminal shuttle on offer now.
One more leg to go, the one with the short connection!.
Take care.
The Tripreporter
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