Review of Yemenia flight from Amman to Sana'a in Economy

Ops am sorry ! i had no idea about that cause i am browsing reports in En only already edited now

the quality of pictures maybe not good because they were taken by mobile camera and as you mentioned in discreet mode but i think still acceptable . only 3 photos taken by Canon

I didn't understand what you mean ? what description you think should be used ?

Thanks for your comment !

Oh i see ! yeah you are right

You are most welcome :)

I am not an administrator, but I believe that this is a fully acceptable report.

You described very clearly the difficulty of operation of Yemenia.

The Il-76 is completely destroyed (just a matter of vocabulary).

Thank you again for taking pictures in these conditions, and for posting such an unusual report !

Wooh, that's a very unusual report ! Congratulations on finding the guts to report this flight : even in discreet mode I doubt most of the contributors would have dared doing it !

Thanks , am glad to hear that ! actually it was risky specially after landing in Sanaa if any of the securities or soldiers noticed me sure i would be in real trouble

Everything seemed pretty normal until the mandatory stop in Bisha. Then one is reminded of the current situation in Yemen.

Impressing that Yemenia still manages to operate under these conditions and that the destination has not fallen in the hazardous operations category, where only specialised companies accept to operate !

Yeah i thought they will suspend their operation until the war finish but fortunately they are not ! however the price is double now .

Overall a nice product on that A320 (much better than what was presented in the French report) : seats are reasonably comfy, pitch is decent, no service issue, catering that seems decent.

Of course, if the meal made you sick, you should sanction it, but I think one can assume it was a one-off issue.

Indeed ! every thing was okay no issues , maybe I'm the only one who had been effected by that meal !

I doubt that IL-76 is even usable for parts XD

Hopefully, other planes seem to have avoided it's fate !

Lol yeah i got same doubts . there were some others had the same fate :( .. The presidential aircraft B747-SP Reg : 7O-YMN had been totally destroyed by an air strike In Aden International airport in the south of Yemen

Once again thanks for the report ! I hope the situation in Yemen will better soon ! Moreover, you could then post us more Yemenia FRs :)

See you soon on FR !

thank you very much for your comment !

Oh, my! This was a fantastic report! Not only because of the exotic location, but all the tension that you had to go through! At first I wondered why you had taken most of the photographs vertically, but now I see that you had to go stealth most of the time in order to not raise suspicion.

Yeah exactly !

If I saw armed soldiers gettinng on my plane and asking to see our passports I would piss my pants.

actually no one of them were armed on-board in they are not soldiers , they presented themselves as the Saudi authorities and they were wearing the official Saudi dressing

What was in your breakfast? I can see something brown that doesn't look very appetizing.

it was omelet eggs , hotdogs and mushroom the brown

Yeah, that IL 76 looks a little... weathered. lol

lol xD

Thanks for sharing this experience. I'll be waiting for more!

you are most welcome ! thanks for your comment :)

Thank you for sharing this FR with us!

You need some real guts to make an FR of a flight like this one, a very interesting and unique FR.

well , I'm glad to hear that , thank you :)

I'm sorry to hear that you got stomach ache after the breakfast.

thanks :)

Could that be the IL-76 that was destroyed by an air-strike a year ago?

I think so , because this one also destroyed by an air-strike :(

Have a good one, see you!

Thanks for your nice comment !

Thanks for your comment and wishes :)

Thanks for sharing this exotic report, as you say, the only report on IY in English!

This is what's great about Flight-Report.com, you get to see what it's like to fly on airlines and go to destinations, you may never have to opportunity to experience.

yeah that is why i was insisting to share it.

That being said, the passenger experience onboard this IY A320 does not seem particularly appealing. The cabin looks old and run down, though the seats look plush and comfortable, as these older style seats often are. It's not luxurious, but then again, with the situation in Yemen, luxury isn't really a priority. So with everything that's happened the past year, IY gets people from point A to point B safely and that's definitely commendable.

well said . no matter if there is no luxury as long we reach our destination safely

I imagine that the security must be very strict on these flights and it is incredible that you were able to do a Flight Report at all! You were rightly very discrete about it--very smart.

further more i was wishful to board the plane before the others because if the passengers saw me it will be another issue like these situations every one seem to be cautious.

It's a shame the meal was not good, as it looks like the portions were generous and it looks tasty, but as always, looks can be deceiving.

sure ! appearance does not reflect the reality sometimes .

Thanks again for this inside look into a mysterious world!

you are most welcome ! thank you for your comment :)

Thanks for this FR.

Good that IY was able to resume some of its operations in spite of the ware still going on there.

ofcourse it is only the way to travel to Yemen by air

Why does the flight have to stop in KSA? Yemen is a sovereign country, there shouldn't be a need to stop in an intermediate country.

True ! but that will not be for long time it is only temporarily because the government of Yemen currently is in Saudi Arabia and manages every thing from there . they have given the allies a green light to do whatever they see suitable which result the mandatory landing in Bisha

The catering does look heavily processed, and it's also served at a weird hour in the middle of the night...

It was already morning around six o'clock

Thanks for your comment :)

Thanks for sharing this report on an airline that is not very well known by many readers on this site.

Yeah and that is why i began my report with introduction for the airline .

I dont' know the food tasted ( you say horrible) but at least it's a full breakfast and not so many airline serve this kind of tray anymore.

The cabin looks a bit plain to me but Yemenia is not an a comeption for the best cabin award I guess !

Yemenia is categorized by skytrax as 2 stars airline so ofcourse it will not be a competitor!

Every thing including seats are meeting with that level and maybe even more !

Thanks for your comment :)

Maybe other airlines catering is worse ! but i'm not here to compare . 7 hours flight i don't think it's considered as short flight ! however i have tried other airline before for the same route the catering was more better . Moreover this breakfast it made me sick.

Maybe i'm the only one who was effected and the others were satisfied one-off issue I just wanted here to show the real flight rating as i experienced .

Thanks :)