Review of Transavia flight Paris → Catania in Economy

Hello everyone,
school is finished, it's time to restart reporting.
This summer, I'll go to Israël and Czech to see my family, England to improve my English in order to become a pilot, in Europe with a friend and in Italy with my parents.
This is the travel plan :

Saturday,June 24th 2017 :
Paris(CDG)-Tel Aviv(TLV) on Airbus A320 Air France (economy class)
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Wednesday, June 28th 2017 :
Tel Aviv(TLV)-Paris(CDG) on Airbus A320 Air France (economy class)
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Sunday, July 2nd 2017 :
Paris(ORY)-London (LHR) on Airbus A319 British Airways (economy class)
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Saturday, July 15th 2017 :
London(LHR)-Paris(ORY) on Airbus A319 British Airways (economy class)
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Sunday, July 16th 2017 :
Paris(CDG)-Prague(PRG) on Airbus A321 Air France (economy class)
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Tuesday, July 18th 2017 :
Vienna (VIE)-Bucarest(OTP) on Embraer 195 Austrian (economy class)
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Thursday, July 20th 2017:
Bucharest(OTP)-Iasi(IAS) on ATR 42 Tarom (economy class)
Tuesday, July 25th 2017 :
Bucharest(OTP)-Cluj(CLJ) on Airbus A318 Tarom (economy class)
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Thursday, July 27th 2017 :
Iasi(IAS)-Bucharest(OTP) on ATR 42 Tarom (economy class)
Thursday, July 27th 2017 :
Cluj(CLJ)-Bucharest(OTP) on Airbus A318 Tarom (economy class)
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Friday, July 28th 2017 :
Bucharest(OTP)-Paris(BVA) on Airbus A320 Wizz Air (economy class)

Sunday, July 30th 2017 :
Paris(ORY)-Catania(CTA) on Boeing B737-800 Transavia (economy class)
Sunday, August 6th 2017 :
Catania(CTA)-Paris(ORY) on Boeing B737-800 Transavia (economy class)
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 :
Paris(CDG)-Lyon(LYS) on Boeing B787-900 Air France (economy class)
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 :
Lyon(LYS)-Prague(PRG) on Bombardier CRJ 1000 Hop for Air France (economy class)
Friday, August 11th 2017:
Prague(PRG)-Paris(CDG) on Airbus A321 Air france (economy class)

We arrived to Orly's airport two hours and half before the flight due to traffic jam on the road.
A lot of people are travelling today for hollidays.
Although, they were five counters opened for TO, we waited a little bit to let our luggage.
At Orly terminal South, there is a panoramic balcont at the last floor ; perfect to spot

The FIDS (departures and arrivals) :


A very rich and unique spotting at ORY :
B737-800 Transavia (Old, new and Bostik liivery)
A330 Corsair Internationnal
A340 Corsair (by Hi Fly)
B737-700/800 RAM (old and new livery)
A320 Aigle Azur (one was rented for the hollidays, not the usual livery)
A330 Air Caraïbes
A340 Plus Ultra (for Cubana replacing the IL96-300 :( )
B757-200 Icelandair (departing)
A320 EasyJet
B737-800 Air Algérie
A320 Tunisair



Then, we passed the seucrity checks and I started spotting again.
Here, the planes were coming from the West Terminal for take-off
B777-200 AF Old livery
A320 Iberia



Our flight is announed at the door B4 (pax-bus)



On the hall B (european Union flights), Transavia is clearly present ;) :


The pre-boarding was awful, TO's staff wasn't nice and made cabin luggage checks without disciplin.
They started the boarding, made people waiting for the bus and didn't reflect on the tarif people used to have.
Very bad point

I couldn't spot on the tarmac because the max of the security was following me in the bus.
Our plane was F-GTVE (1 year old)
Here is my seat 2F



A very very good pitch



We've got a vey good offer by Transavia with 10euros, we chose tarif Max instead of flex (500 miles FB more, free seat (instead of 15 euros))
The Captain announced that we had to wait 10 minutes before departures.
So, spotting :

A320 family AF
A320 family BA
A320 TAP
B737-800 TO
A330 Air Caraïbes



Then, we left our parking
And, some more spotting :
A320 Air Corsica
F100 Avantiair
The training plane of Orly's fire fighters



We took-off on the pist 20, which is really rare one of the pist was close for operation works)
The A330 took of from an other pist because the 20-02 is too small.



A CRJ-700 and an A320 family AF were waiting for taking-off after us



Some other planes of the Terminal South
B767 RAM
A330 Tunisair



After we took-off, some pictures of the museum of Paray Vielle Poste with the Concorde



Some views of the Basis 217 of Bretigny :



During the flights, I ordered a pizza that AF gives for free and a tomato juice for 6,50 euros, I found the pizza not so tasty, but not so bad, bud the all was a little bit too expensive :



We left the metropolitan France by Toulon, I recognize the airport :



Then, we crossed Corsica :



We arrived in Sicilia by Taormina :



On approach on Catania :




The landing was smooth
The Etna :



We parked next to an A320 Air Berlin with a special livery :


There was also a A319 TK but I couldn't take a picture

Thanks for reading
Papa Sierra Golf 91