#GREECE #Swiss #AirbusA321 #ATH

καλημέρα, Kalimera dear readers,

here we are at ZRH and there is more to fly today:




Thanx to, as usual:

http://www.gcmap.com/

The vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okVIVcv22aY



Thursday, 16.01.2014

ZRH(Flughafen Zürich)
ATH (Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos
Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών
Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) 

Service LX 1830 operated by Swiss 
Scheduled:  09.45  //  13.20

What about the checked airlines?:


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And maybe the plane types recorded?:


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The early 200 visited airports:


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And the further examples:


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The visited countries:


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The Tripreporter 2013 data:


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And till now, 2014:


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Walking straight to the gate B33, no detour, no lounge, nothing at all with just some minutes time in between for the next flight.
By the way this is the second part on the LX confirmation, the fare again 45.00 Euro´s. And what´s out there?:


It´s me, "Pitz Palu", I´am an A321 and I have worn the Swissair colors and registration HB-IOH from 21.03.1997 till the Swiss experiment


Leg no. 29 for me, a new entry to the log.
8 planes on type are in the fleet.
There is one story to show now:
http://avherald.com/h?article=445280d2&opt=0
Well, it´s definitely a Swiss like scenery here


09.45 am, as ontime as possible, "Swiss" and 2.05 hours from the
2500 meters runway "Two-Eight".
Still the 4 wet and cloudy degrees.
Ok, let´s go!


A closer view to the acceptable loaded cabin is necessary.
70% and not that much biz to notice, VFR maybe!?.
37C for me, the last row aisle, the window is taken and the middle seat remains open


Cockpit crew is from Switzerland, the "Pilot" with a very short info during approach only.
Routing is INN-Bolzano-Venice and all along the croatian coastline at 32000 and up till 35000 feet.
Good legroom and the seats en detail, dark grey leather, well used it is


Cabin crew is all female, one elder, nice, one younger, blonde, ok,
one middle aged greek native, nice, all announcements also in greek.
And one young, small, short black hair, ok, you know, really nice, asked me at least three times if I like to have something more to drink or else from the cart, really nice, I told you.
What about a view to the actual Swiss fleet?


Just by surprise, a hot meal


And don´t get me wrong I don´t need the night to sleep on a plane.
In fact, this light swing all the time,
the lovely airplane sound, a page in the book or somettimes also half the page is enough and I´am far away dreaming about, well, pleasant connections!.
And just a minute or two later....
Touchdown at the 3800 meters "Two-One-Right". 1.00 pm, 20 minutes ahead to schedule, 16 degrees and just a few clouds around till the sun is out, pretty it looks like and I´am at the "Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos
Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών
"Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος" again after a good time since the last visit

Where there is no intra security change from international arrivals to domestic departures possible. Ok, this is the chance to catch an airport boarding paper for my flight now from a nice young woman at the desk. And how I like it to spend some more time at the security check and how I like it again to notice it right after this check that the lounges are located prior to the stations.
Well, I´am not really in a need to do it again and therefore decided to stay airside for a closer view around and listen to the music!.
Listen to the music?.
Ok with me as long as it´s playing in the background. But here you should go and search for a relatively quiet place before you going crazy.
The same song ever and ever and loud it was.
And believe me, I wasn´t alone, downstairs at the groundfloor are a couple of seats in between two speakers with not only me decided to wait there for the flight.
Like a flock of sheep, lot´s of seats with no one to use it, the flock of sheep me included around these couple of seats and further again lot´s of seats with simply no one around, strange.
Ok, what about the screen, perfectly good to follow for me this way


Yes, that´s something for me and some apron action or not!


I definitely miss something here, ok maybe the one in the second picture, too!


Bus boarding from gate B28 it is well ontime. The flight shows an OA fightnumber operated by OA and according to some sources there is still the one and only A319 left in Olympic colours.
Sure, looking forward to exactly this one with the A319 on the OLCI seatmap, isn´t it?.
But well, sometimes you are looking endless forward to something.
Yes, it is an A319, lucky me, yes it is the sole example in the fleet, lucky me again.
But no, it isn´t operated by Olympic and no, it isn´t also in Olympic colours and no, if you like to ask me something here on the apron right now, better don´t do it!



And yes, there is one more leg to go today!.
The Tripreporter.