How to fly in stormy times.
Two weeks of rest are over. Using my example, I'll show you how a typical flight goes now. Yesterday our flight to Antalya was immediately postponed from 19:05 to 22:50.
We took off around 23:00. We were about to fly to Slovakia, when the crew announced that they would turn around and land in Istanbul.
We landed in Istanbul at 3 am. Consider it a waste of time to hang around on a flight for 4 hours. In Istanbul, starting at 7 am, the flight was delayed by an hour each time. At 10 they still took off.
those. We sat at the airport for 7 hours.
We flew to Moscow in 3.5 hours, but spent another 45 minutes circling around Venukovo, waiting for clearance to land. We sat down at 14:00. As a result, the flight was extended from 19:00 yesterday to 14:00 today, or 19:00.
Of course without sleep. In addition, there was also a charter version of the A-321 (the charter is easy to recognize - it has no business class). In common parlance - "cattle truck". This is when the airlines (in our case, Turkish Airlines) reduce and reduce the legroom between the seats, and large people no longer fit into the seats themselves. No hot meals. those. In this bent position, people spent a total of 8 hours in the plane on this flight.
At exactly the same time, when the registration was opened, we bought seats in the emergency bar (Page 11) – two seats in a row (not three) with more spacious feet. They paid €100 for every place. For TAs and charters, consider that such places are actually “business.” This is not the worst option. People say such a flight from Antalya or Dubai to Moscow can take 40 to 50 hours – because of the endless closure of the sky at Moscow airports. A bit more funny. At Istanbul Airport, in Russian via the speaker, delays in flights to Moscow are explained in “bad weather.”.