During our Good Morning Milan, Goodnight Moon trip, my dad and I flew Air Dolomiti economy from Milan (LIN) to Frankfurt (FRA). I redeemed points at the last minute, as this was the most convenient flight, and there was no business class award availability.
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Not having WiFi for an hour is a big deal to me - I bill out at over $3,000 an hour
Actually $3.53 at today's exchange rate.
If you're going to be snippy be accurate, too.
Well, I might suggest that you're paying for all the equipment and labor to get it to you at 25,000 feet above the Alps?
The only downside to Air Dolomiti is that you're probably looking forward to a bus gate experience whenever you fly them...
What a moronic comment. Obviously the aircraft is already stocked with Coffee before take-off. Dummy.
Air Dolomiti isa bit of a scam. It is fully owned by LH, which the latter uses tooperare their routes, but insists on not giving any Star Alliance benefits. Further, that capuccino after lunch tirade has a lot more to do with baristas being lazy, often by the same ones that brutally burn the coffee as is very common in Italy, than with tradition, taste or style. Good coffee places will very gladly make any milk based drink into their closing times as the margins are way higher.
Well, you'd better go away and make all that fictional money instead of wasting your and our time here with your stupid comments -- I guess we were lucky to experience a sliver of your valuable time!
ps. to show their blatant scam, they literally have a plane still flying with the Star Alliance livery and despite showing official registration data, their customer services denied it existed.
One thing you did not mention is the how Air Dolomiti consistently runs late and is a problem for Lufthansa. They are notorious for being at least an hour behind schedule already by lunchtime and a huge thorn in the side for Lufthansa.
Not entirely sure you’re right.
Cappuccino is very common in the morning - are they less lazy then?
The fact of the matter is that for most Italians, having a large milky drink after lunch is not a thing. It may be because Italians are more likely ( or at leas were in the past) to have wine with their lunch, and maybe because in the past the milk would go bad by lunchtime. Either way, any cafe initaly will gladly offer you a cappuccino at any time, but will know that you are a foreigner
lazy in a sense they are not used to do it in the afternoon, as opposed to the mornings, when is indeed as you rightly say, served often.
Plainly, @Jessica hasn't travelled around that part of Europe at all !
If she did she would know that 3 euros for an espresso was very common.
Not a math wizz either; 3 euros = USD 3.53, not 7.50!
Lufthansa Group is not exactly known for reducing the amount of different airlines and AOC.
The question is if ITA will stay or if they will move everything to the AOC of „Air Dolomiti“ or „Air Dolomiti City“ or „Air Dolomiti Discover“…
I believe it is Starbucks that brutally burns their coffee. In Italy, you can order a caffé macchiato (1:1 coffee to milk) any time of the day without issue, so the baristi will happily froth milk all day. Cappuccino is considered a breakfast drink, as much a meal as it is a coffee. After breakfast, a coffee is quick, hot, and frequent. And if you order a cappuccino after a meal, you're signalling that you're still hungry, which insults the hospitality of your host/restaurateur.
But, sure, most places that serve tourists know that they like their milk and, as nomad points out, overcharge. When they start calling you a big baby is a sign that they like you and think you should know these things. Either adjust your behavior or lean into it and own it.
@Mike...the situation in Italy with coffee (or 'caffe' as they say) has changed a lot. The old 'rules' about cappuccino only in the morning are gone. My Italian kids order that drink in the afternoons, and the locals don't even blink, much less squirm in abject horror. For sure, most cappuccino gets drunk in the morning; but as a local, you can enjoy it any time of the day without getting side-eye..It surprises me this old tale about cappuccino (and other coffee-based beverages) in Italy still gets thrown around like it was the Gospel. Very similar to tale about dressing well so you can get upgraded to business class.
Oh sorry, Samo the Sumo. I didn't realize that asking a question was a big issue here that requires a snippy reply. Show some respect.
I flew with Air Dolimiti last month, Frankfurt to Florence.
The flight was fine and nothing memorable.
But my gripe is that I bought a Lufthansa ticket from LHR to FRA to Florence, the first leg on Lufthansa and the second on Dolomiti.
The first flight was delayed with the connection less than an hour (lesson learned never to do that again). As a result, had an 8 hour layover at Frankfurt.
But, even though I'm Star Alliance Gold, I was denied lounge entry as Lufthansa doesn't recognise Air Dolimiti and claim to have no link together!
Complete rip off and not mentioned when booking the ticket.
Be warned.
They have a link, you'd get in as a SEN. It's just that your own FFP wouldn't pay for accessing the lounge when flying with a non-*A carrier. It's not good, but it's hardly surprising. What's even worse is that the flights earn no miles on most partner schemes, even if you're on a very expensive fare.
Absolutely, it is a scam. But LH doesn't care, it's part of their DNA to be a scam.
Italians don't scam and it's about taste not about lazy baristas. Get it right