Review: Air Berlin Economy Class Catania to Munich

Dumb note here, but I really liked it when you had a title for your trips, like Royal dis(HHonor), VIE-IST via TYO, etc. Review just seems impersonal.

@ Ben -- Thanks for the feedback. Still have the titles with the introduction post, but decided to do away with the title with each individual post to keep the titles a bit shorter. If others feel similarly let me know and I'm happy to add them back.

I agree with commenter Ben, I liked the official titles.

Also, this is probably out of your control, but it's ironic you're trying to make the titles shorter when the Boarding Area redesign makes posts an order of magnitude longer pre-click.

Wow, Sheraton Munich for 20 Euros. That is a mega bargain !

Oops that was the taxi, interpreted wrong.

Really wish you'd give *some* information about the places you go. I guess that's not why people read you, or you perceive that to be the case, but just a paragraph before this flight review saying your thoughts on Catania would be great.

You get to go places a lot of us don't, after all. Be nice to hear which are worth the time

@ James K. -- It's a great suggestion, and to be honest I'm so far behind on trip reports right now that I'm just trying to get through them as quickly as possible. Plan on doing a post soon about the places I've been in the past 12 months and how I feel about them.

For a trade show in May, I used Air Berlin Düsseldorf-Munich last May. It was my first flight with them as well (and the second flight, the same night back) and I must say I was pleasantly suprised. I expected a RyanAir or maybe EasyJet experience, but it felt more like a KLM/Lufthansa ride. Yep, same problem with the stupid bus, especially weird because we were using an empty gate with bridge to get to the bus.

There were newspapers (unfortunately only in German), I got a drink, really friendly staff: I liked it! Okay, it was only an hour flight, so can't complain too much about the seat. Nevertheless, I've taken flights with RyanAir of an hour and I had to bend myself in ways previously thought impossible to get into that seat, something I didn't witness with Air Berlin (I'm 2m02/6'9).

Didn't get the free champagne, though 😉

Reading your Air Dolomiti-report reminds me of something: didn't you get chocolate while deboarding? I got a really cute chocolate heart. It tasted great!

With the longer title, it's harder to know exactly which part of the report you're gonna read when you get the tweet.

"I’ve never flown Air Berlin in the passenger cabin, so was curious to see what the service was like."

HUMBLE BRAG ALERT! HUMBLE BRAG ALERT!

I agree with James K. about how it would be nice to hear about your land travels. Especially after you teased us with "And that’s where three days of pure Sicilian madness began…"
We'll just have to imagine it. 😉

Non-OneWorld elites can pick seats for free by pulling up their Amadeus record using the Royal Air Jordanian website! Yes, this actually works 🙂

@ Chris -- Wow, thanks for the heads up. So I just made a dummy booking to try this. It looks like RJ's flight will randomly assign you a seat, though won't let you change it. Is your experience different?

As OW Emerald and frequent Air Berlin Traveller, I am pretty sure that as a OW Emerald you can also get XL-Seats for free in advance - never had a problem with this.