Hello from Amman! After an Air Canada Rouge flight from Tampa to Toronto, EgyptAir business class flight from Toronto to Cairo, and amusing transfer at Cairo Airport, I flew from Cairo to Amman on Royal Jordanian. The flight was operated by an Embraer 175, which is my favorite regional jet.
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Curious what routing they took? It's always intriguing since given regional conflicts and their relations with Israel they can sometimes take very convoluting routes.
A couple years ago i flew Amman to Beirut (used to be able to drive this, of course its not recommended anymore). Despite being ~200 miles apart the flight took nearly 2 hours as they went South through Jordan, West over Egypt and then North along the Israeli coast.
Nice to see the new airport turned out nice. The old one of a few years ago was a DUMP.
Oh, somehow I’ve always imagined Royal Jordanian Embraer between CAI and AMM is a very small, “old” jet, but in fact it looks quite nice (and nice leather seat too) ! Most of time I usually take QR B777 F CAIDOH which gets boring to me, but next time I must try this : RJ & QR CAI-AMM-DOH. What a fun. Thanks for the review !
@Alex, both Egypt and Jordan recognize Israel as a state and maintain diplomatic ties so I don't think there would be any issues flying over Israel. Perhaps when you flew from AMM they were trying to avoid the airspace between Lebanon and Israel as the two are still technically at war.
@yyc - probably shoudl have specified i was flying a Lebanese airline not Royal Jordanian.
Sorry. Either way, even looking at my flight radar 24 app i'm seeing a lot of avoidance of Israeli airspace at the moment.
"I’m going to think twice about which airlines I fly. For one, I’ll never fly Royal Jordanian again. Any airline which has pilots that display such a high level of unprofessionalism and don’t even make a single announcement aren’t worth flying."
Never say never, I suppose.
I have to fly the E170 regularly and once I was sitting next to a pilot on a boeing who flew both and he reckons embraers are pieces of shyte. Interested to find out why it's your fav? I'm nervous about flying it now.
Hang on.. you last said "For one, I’ll never fly Royal Jordanian again" after your flight from hell post.
You just flew them again?
Singling out a young white German-American man for extra baggage checks! The nerve of these Arabs! LOL :p
I just flew from
AMM TO CAI same aircraft and loved it - Like you I thought for a short flight a really nice business class - I was expecting one of those planes wear they change the rubber bands before every flight
Loved Royal Jordanian - better airline then expected
"Best configuration of ERJ yet..."
But isn't it identical to Air Canada and Delta's E170/75/90/95s? I don't recall, maybe DL doesn't have the footrest? And AC took out a few inches of pitch recently.
