Move over, all other airlines! I’ve just found the single aircraft I’m most interested in flying… thanks to reader Chris for bringing this to my attention.
Continue reading: Georgian Airways Boeing 767… With Two First Class Seats?!?
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Hope you manage to book it somehow!
The comment re. Skymark is incorrect btw. They are still flying.
@ Scandinavian Traveler -- Whoops, my mistake! Exhaustion from this trip is getting the best of me. Fixed.
there's a video on youtube from georgian public broadcaster showing the 767-300 cabin
There's a video of the Omni 767-200 where you can see those crew seats, that could maybe be made first class...? Floor to ceiling curtain, move over La Premiere 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-By9ezwfI
good catch, that's almost certainly what it is. Looks like business class seats appropriated as crew rest with a 'box' around them. I wonder if Georgian will differentiate service at all, especially as it looks to be in the business class cabin when the curtains are open.
Interesting. I realize from your past posts, you do not select flights based on local legal rights. However, sometimes when new laws / rules take effect, it is worth considering timing of travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgian-parliament-approves-law-curbing-lgbt-rights-2024-09-17/
Ask any Georgian what continent their country is in and they will tell you Europe. They are an EU candidate country and are both culturally and geographically aligned with Europe, not Asia.
Rossiya is also very much still flying; they are a subsidiary company of Aeroflot Group. Maybe you were thinking of Transaero which did go bankrupt some years ago.
@ CT -- Yep, my mistake. For whatever reason I was thinking of Transaero. I'm apparently really exhausted this trip, bleh!
Whilst it can be debated to some extent, general consensus in the Caucasus region is that the three Caucasian states, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaidjan, are located in Europe.
@Ben found this on airliners.net showing the crew seats on the Omni Air B767;
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Omni-Air-International-OAI/Boeing-767-224-ER/4205239
Georgian reader here… happy to give them a call and ask around 😉
Also Tbilisi is always worth a visit with very nice hotels in and outside the city. (New Paragraph Luxury Collection , Rooms, Pullman Axis Towers)
And yes, right now Georgian government is not behaving at all but people in Tbilisi are much more progressive and we all hope elections end of October will change lots of things.
My initial thought was 'one seat for the president and one for his wife'.
Then I looked up what those two seats look like and it's basically two business class seats in a burqa. I'd get claustrophobic if I had to spend 6 hours in a tiny room with everyone walking past me on every side of the tiny curtained room. That's a first class nightmare.
Please Ben, if you end up flying to Georgia spend a night at Stamba hotel... it doesn't belong to any chain, but from what I've heard it's a solid option in town and it seems to reflect Tbilisi's architecture very well.
Hey, some LH planes are still 2-2-2 in J. And Turkish still has 2-3-2 on on it's 777s.
Someone should tell them that those seats in the cockpit are for the pilot and the first officer and not to be confused with first class seats….
Interesting to see large overlap in people interested in visiting Georgia that are also extreme pro Ukraine/ anti Russia.
Foreign affairs opinions only last as long as your ego.
Haha and YES but i would say a Mac paint program from the 1990s with the font like that
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"Also, can we all agree that the carrier’s livery kind of looks like it was made in Microsoft Paint? That doesn’t look real, right?"
I flew on this 767 2 weeks before and I have answers for this mystery situation
On March 12th, this aircraft exited the fleet and was flown to SIN for cargo conversion.