Review of Alitalia flight Prague → Rome in Economy

INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone
I'm writing this report after many months since I've been very busy with university.
Last Easter my family and I decided to visit Prague, since neither my father nor I have been there,
We booked the flight about one month before with CSA-Czech Airlines and Alitalia. While I've flown AZ many times in Europe, it would have been for me the first time with CSA
Here is the itinerary

13th April Rome Fiumicino - Prague Ruzyně with Czech Airlines A319
16th April Prague Ruzyně - Rome Fiumicino with Alitalia A320 (YOU ARE HERE)

AT THE AIRPORT

After spending Easter Holidays enjoying this beautiful city is time to come back home
Since the departure time was 18:10 we spend the morning walking around the city center
Around 15:30 we took a took a taxi to the airport and in about twenty minutes we reached Václav Havel Airport
Our flight would depart from Terminal 2, used for flights within the Schengen area

The departure hall is bright and large
This Terminal had opened in 2006

For unknown reasons we weren't able to make online check-in neither on AZ app nor on the website
Browsing on FlightReport in the days after I discovered it had happened also to other AZ flights
We had to wait about 10 minutes before check-in opened

Since we had few people in front of us we obtained our BPs in about 10 minutes

My boarding pass showing the gate D1

Having nothing else to do landside we went straight to the security check-point

The whole process didn't take so much
The control itself didn't seem accurate as in other European airports
When my turn came the policeman found the windproof light I bought the day before and told me it was forbidden
However he let me keep it (fortunately)
Duty-free area just after the checkpoint

It's not a hub without Victoria's Secrets XD

Our gate

Since there was a hour before boarding I decided to make a walk around the Terminal
The Terminal is clean and efficent, but it lacks of shops

Spotting time!
CSA A319s, TAP A320 and Air Dolomiti E-Jet parked at Pier C

Travel Service 737 at gate D3

CSA A319 and KLM 737

Brussels Airlines A320 just landed

Our bird parked at Gate D1

Boarding commenced on time

Brussels Airlines parked at Pier C while we waited to board

Going down the steep jetway

Our Airbus A320, EI-IKB, delivered in May 2000 (16,9 yo) and named after Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Still old livery for me

THE FLIGHT

Etihad Airways Partner logo near the door

Fuselage shot with AZ green line along the fuselage

The plane is equipped with new interiors

Since the plane was not full (123 pax/162 seats according to the flight report) I moved to row 29

The view from my seat as we started pushback (sorry for blurred pics)

Alitalia's logo on the headrest

Travel Service 737

Heading to RWY24

Bye Bye Prague

There was no queue for takeoff

And here we go…

Terminal 2

And finally in the air

Bye bye Czech Republic

We quickly reached cruise altitude

About half a hour into the flight a snack was served
The choice was between chips or biscuits and a beverage
I choose San Carlo's Chips and Coke

Where are you going mate?

Clouds

Ryanair 737

Approaching Italy clouds started to thin

Ravenna's port

Perfectly on time we started our descent

Since we came from north and landing operations that day were from south we had to fly over Rome

Olympic Stadium, Foreign Ministry (the white building next the stadium) and Gemelli Hospital (the enormous builiding complex under the stadium)

Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park (called Foro Italico) and Foreign Ministry

St Peter's Basilica

The "Big Snake", a huge complex of public housing almost 1 km long

EUR financial district in southern Rome

Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, also known as Colosseo Quadrato (Square Colosseum)
It was built in 1942 for Rome Universal Exposition (never held due to WWII) and in my opinion is one of the best example of Italian rationalist architecture

PalaLottomatica, design by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi

Souther suburbs of Rome

Cinecittà World, an amusement park themed around cinema

Approach path for the RWY is over Tirrean Sea

Tiber River's mouth

Rome Airport long-term parking

We landed on time on RWY34R

SAS A320 landed behind us

Air Berlin A320 (RIP)

Entering AZ's land

This A320, EI-DTJ (named after Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli) is painted with a special livery called Employee Signatures
When new AZ corporate image was presented in June 2016 many employees were asked to write their promises for the airline and all this phrases have been printed on the plane fuselage

A320s in old livery…

…and in new one

Parking on a remote stand next to EI-DSA, a former AirOne A320 named "Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo"

While desembarking I asked the flight report form to the Purser and he invited me to take some pics to the cockpit
Unfortunately the Captain was working on some papers and I just had time to say him "Thank you"

Very well filled Flight report

Last views of our aircraft from the bus

Welcome to Rome

Having cabin baggage only we headed straight to the exit and took the shuttle bus to the long term parking
Thank you for your attention!