After a roughly six second bus ride from the terminal, we pulled up to the Ethiopian 767 that would be taking us to Frankfurt, in "Star Alliance" livery no less. Boarding was via stairs through door 2L, so upon entering the plane we turned left into the business class cabin. Oy. Hello 1990! We walked…
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When you say the flight was at least safe, do you mean it landed? An ancient plane with a crew that spends most of the time outside the cockpit...wouldn't lead me to use safe as my first descriptor.
'It would be like booking business class from the US to Europe on a US airline, only to have a 737 with domestic first class seats subbed in (and at least those seats would have built-in power ports).'
This actually happened to me on a Brazil-US AA flight (757 instead of 737 though). Was horrible by comparison.
That food probably came from some sort of buffet restaurant close to the airport. They probably forgot to cater food and then asked the closest restaurant to deliver directly to the plane. Gross!!!!
Fun to read this review. I love the colorful seats of this carrier, so classy 😀 . This plane and the "product" is really like a travel back in time.
As I mentioned before, you flew on ET-ALO which is far and away the best of the 767 fleet. Most of the others do not have seats with as much pitch, no PTVs and the smaller overhead bins. If you think the experience on ET-ALO was bad, you ain't seen nothing. I've flown most of the fleet at various times and I exult if I see ALO or ALP down to operate the flight I'm on! 🙂
Hey, that's the same champagne they serve in Delta BE. I wonder if the only people who buy that brand are the airlines
And the lavatory was once again only stocked with tissues instead of paper towels. What's the deal with that?
My favorite part was that it was like a time machine back to 1990. I was hoping they would be looping Ferris Bueller's Day Off and episodes of Murphy Brown on the TVs.
Lucky, sounds like you need a Kindle with some good books on it. Battery lasts for weeks so you almost never find yourself with a dead battery!
Call me a little crazy.. I'm going to throw this wild idea out there. Maybe ... just maybe... it might be a good idea to have a book available to read when there's no places to power up gadgets. I know.. I know! You're probably thinking what's a book? Is that the old archaic way of reading that doesn't involve an e-reader or tablet, but actually uses trees to make a binding that can be read!! Well it is an old technology but it these sorts of situations can help save someone's sanity by providing some form of entertainment. Even if someone doesn't want to go all out novel there are magazines (books with glossy pictures) and even books with crosswords/puzzles (paper that you have to use a piece of wood with a shaft of graphite through it to complete the puzzles... it's almost like using reeds for cuniform tablets!) 😉
Power brick from NewEgg was about the best $30 I've ever spent. Charges my phone 3-4 times. I suggest 14000mAh version.
This is a great portable charger http://www.jackeryusa.com I have the Jackery Bar version.
@ Dina - Wowwww...
@ Lucky - it's a shame they run 767s regularly HKG - ADD. At least neither FRA or HKG get a Dash 8...
Just scored the Allpowers portable charger for about $37 on Amazon. Takes forever to charge because it's rated at 50000 mAh, and holds a ton of chargeable power, but has two USB outlets to charge on-the-go. It even comes with a USB cord and a few extra tips to charge all kinds of power-hungry items! http://www.amazon.com/ALLPOWERS%C2%AE-50000mAh-External-Portable-Blackberry/dp/B00FDLPMH2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1406602557&sr=1-1&keywords=allpowers+50000mah
@ Alvin - my post was meant to be satirical and funny about society in general and the importance of electronics in our lives ( I include myself when I'm talking about electronics). Not meant to disparage lucky at all. I just enjoyed writing something and using the word cuneiform!
"We touched down on Runway 7C at 4:35PM, well ahead of schedule. Unfortunately it took us about 20 minutes to taxi to our arrival gate — 10 of those minutes were spent waiting to cross the parallel runway."
You would only have to cross the runway if you arrived on 7R - arriving on 7C in FRA, there is no other parallel runway to cross on your way to the terminal.
I took ET for my trip to Chad from Seoul stopping at Bangkok and Addis. Plane to BKK was by Korean Air and it was not bad but from BKK was a pain in the ass. Plane got delayed and they booked us a room at novotel near by airport telling us the plane will be there at 8:30. When we got to the airport we waited and waited until it was noon.
At Addis it was a nightmare. It seem that almost everyone on the flight was to stay at Addis and it took us 2hours to get visa and document for the hotel.
To top this off all our bags went to Eygpt instead of Seoul on our return flight as well as 787 being changed to 767. lol.
Dear Lucky, thanks for delivering all this fantastic reports.
For me it looks like (ET) Ethiopian is just missing the finesse and final touch?
@ peterfox -- I'd say that's true on the 787/777, but I'd say there's a bit more than that missing on the 767.
Thanks for sharing!
I am looking at a flight with them now - need some more Star Alliance miles to keep the Star Gold card. Do they offer some miles in Business at least, to make up for the not so amazing service? I flew them in Economy once, when I lost me LH connection - and that is a no-go - never again.
Just an update, Selamta, Ethiopian's inflight magazine reports in this month's issue that the 767s will be upgraded imminently in business class to angled flat seats. Better late than never.