For the second to last segment ofmy quick trip to Paris and Cairo, Iflew Ethiopian Airlines’ A350-900 business class on the 7hr35min flight from Addis Ababa (ADD) to London (LHR). I won’t be reviewing this flight in full, but did want to share some thoughts on the experience.
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Ethiopian food is very nice, and yet none on the menu. One would think they would want to promote their heritage.
The Gatwick flight has an immediate turnaround while the Heathrow flight sits all day on ground. Therefore, if they needed that particular airframe back in Addis it makes sense to send it to LGW rather than LHR.
I’m of the generation “Have you ever had Ethiopian food? Neither have they”. In that regard, all the food pictured here is impressive.
The Ethiopian traditional meals are served on all LUNCH and DINNER service departing from Addis Ababa.
However, due to the post-midnight departure time of your flight it was slated for LIGHT SNACK and HOT BREAKFAST instead. Hence, no traditional meals unfortunately.
Most of the departures in the earlier part of the bank (ie. pre-midnight) should actually have the traditional meals in my experience.
It looks like your ADD-LHR flight passed directly over... Cairo???
That must've felt oddly [un?] rewarding...
I wonder if the sorts of Ethiopian restaurants we see in the U.S. really reflect all f the food culture at home. I like the restaurants, more social than aboard a plane though, it's not far removed from Arab food culture where you get a sort of a mezze eaten with bread and everyone eats together with your hands.
Flying over Egypt was probably the least bad option for everyone on board (except for Ben). A more western routing would pass over Libya while a most eastern routing would go over Israel and maybe Gaza (the future "Riviera of the Middle East"). It appears that the flight also overflew Sudan, another war zone.
Planning safe flight routes in this part of the world must be an interesting job.
An old, bigoted Skadden attorney? There's a millionth time for everything, I guess.
"Oh, really this kind of joke???"
The poster tends to vacillate between "stern know-everything frequent traveller" and "lawyer-wannabe in mom's basement posting assholeish BS."
In this case, it's the latter, specifically 1980s-style mockery of starvation and poverty.
How did the manage to screw up a negroni?!?!? It's the easiest mixed drink in the world to make. 1 part gin, 1 part campari, 1 part vermouth.
Problem with Ethiopian Airlines is that they transport primates to laboratories in their cargo. I just can't fly them anymore.
I love Arabic food but it is quite greasy. Greasy food is tasty food. I ate it decades ago but not as much today as I age. The Arabs love red meats such as beef, veal, lamb and mutton. No offense but it is hard for me to watch people eat food, especially rice, with their fingers, except finger food such as chicken wings, fries and pizza. I will definitely fly Ethiopia Airlines late next year when I return to southern African countries.
that's what you do while eating on a plane? staring at other passengers eat...
weird man. there's a screen for a reason...
"An old, bigoted Skadden attorney? There's a millionth time for everything, I guess."
(He's not a Skadden attorney; he's not an attorney at all.)
May be it is unfortunate for you to enjoy the food menu on this particular flight. During may last flight to the same destination, I enjoyed everything with the A350-1000, very delicious Ethiopian cultural food as well as western drink and food options.
Ethiopian is greet country . don't be written false information the food is best in the world.if you travel in American any Airlines they might not be get you food American people is starvation people definitely.you might be have bad experience if you travel in usa Any airline because the flight attendant their characters are prostitute,and if you travel in USA any Airline they might be give you junk food inside the Airport ethiopia is blessed country.even if ethiopian. They can feed the world ethiopian Airline is best in the world and Africa. the writer is delusion & confused person stop write falsely note
Ethiopian airlines is more comfortable than most European airlines.
Not cheap traveling from Heathrow, but very comfortable on EA.
British Airways have the smallest seats with the most narrow of ailes, not comfortable at all.
I have been flying on Ethiopian since 1979 .Their service is FAR superior to BA which is why I use them for JNB & CPT twice a year . My wife actually prefers the 2-2-2 layout as it is not so claustrophobic. Their meals are way better than BA & the service levels superior. If one flies from LGW in BIZ the Hotac in ADDIS is included
Ethiopian airlines is my worst flight ever. I spent 4 days on a return trip from Brussels to entebbe with no compensation. Poor accommodation no good meal. Every time you fly with them expect to find your luggage missing. No value for money, no respect for customers
Food terrible. Handling if luggage disgusting. Rushed between flights when delay was there fault.
As far as food was concerned, food was not bad, but for 2nd luggage accompanying me from Canada to Ethiopia, they charged me Canadian $100. Which was fair but then for my continuation from Ethiopia to Pakistan they charged me again US $275. which was a big rip off. Even though my ticket final destination was Pakistan.
I just flew a comparable schedule on QR in biz, and we had to choose between a light supper and a light-ish breakfast. How much can you eat in 5 hours in the middle of the night??? ET has fabulous coffee, and really quite respectable service even in main cabin. I only had a short, 2 hour flight in biz on an ET 737-Max8 last week, and thought it quite reasonable. I find this post rather whiny and uninformative. Please do better.
I've booked ET from CAI-KUL, so would I be correct in saying, based on the above, that no traditional Ethiopian meals on ET453 ADD-SIN-KUL departing at 23:50? I also assume it's the same on my return ET639 KUL-SIN-ADD? Just so I can set expectations for myself. Both flights say "Meals, Breakfast" on those sectors (the connecting CAI-ADD-CAI just say "Breakfast".