Review of Ryanair flight from Rome to Tel Aviv in Economy

FCO AIRPORT - TERMINAL 1

Good morning from FCO airport, terminal 1!

Check in area:

I had the fast track service, so I managed to skip the short line in the hand baggage check:

Soon enough, I arrived to the duty free area just 5 minutes after I entered the airport.
The duty free was close on 4AM:

So I went to the Eataly (pun intended) shop:

This was a pretty nice place to eat and drink something, since I couldn't eat the breakfast in the hotel.
The prices were a bit high, but it's usual thing in many airports.
The shop itself was pretty nice to, with a lot a Italian food to bring home - many types of Pasta, sauces, chocolates, candies and more.

After I finished in Eataly, I went to the duty free, it opened around 4.30AM:

They even sell some meat products in the duty free! I think that I never saw such thing in my life.

I like the idea that they placed this car here, which is an Italian symbol in my opinion:

The duty free shop on FCO was pretty good, the variety of products was good and the prices were good as well, however, the service was a bit slow since there were only 2-3 workers to help.
Maybe it has something to do, due to the fact that it was very early.

I spent almost an hour in the duty free shop, then I made my way to the gate area, which was far away, and I also need to go through the passport control process.

My usual airport loo review:

As you can see, the toilets were clean and in very good condition.

I continued to make my way to the gate area:

While walking, I saw that there were a lot of shops in this airport, it's almost like a shopping mall!

Unfortunately, all of the shops were closed on this early hour.
I also found that there are more places to eat, but it was irrelevant on this time.

Continuing to make my way to the gate area…

Finally I arrived to the gate area:

Even though I had a priority boarding, I waited almost 20 minutes to get to the aircraft.

Before boarding to our aircraft, I spotted this Wizz A321:

Our aircraft:

FLIGHT EXPERIENCE - FCO TO TLV

Aircraft information:
Boeing 737-8AS(WL)
9H-QAX
In service since April 2015, making it almost 8 years old when I flew on it

Cabin view from my seat (17F):

Wing view:

And the big advantage of this seat, the great legroom:

Unfortunately, unlike my inbound flight to FCO, this time the cabin was the older one:

Push back started on 6:35AM, meaning we were on time.
More wing view:

Sorry for the reflections, but the sunrise was stunning in my opinion!

Take off video:

The aircraft took off on 6.48AM:

5 minutes after…

30 minutes into the flight:

On hour into the flight, I went to the rear toilets:

The toilets were clean and well maintained.

I returned to my seat and found that the crew started the buy on board service:

Cheers!
I bought this cup of coffee which tasted terrible.
This time I was hungry as well, so I bought a Panini with cheese and ham:

The cheese and the bread tasted fine, but the ham had a bad taste.
I'm not sure if it was my specific panini or this is how it should taste?

Looking a bit more closely into my seat, I found that it wasn't that clean…

20 minutes before landing:

Cabin view during descent:

Over the Israeli coast:

Landing video:

More photos during landing:

Spoilers deployed!

On our way to the parking area near terminal 1 and Elal maintenance:
Elal Boeing 777-200 (4X-ECA):

Airbus A340 (VP-BMS):

Wing view on our parking position:

Cabin view during deboarding:

Goodbye 9H-QAX!

As you can see, a bus already waited for us, to take us to terminal 3.

Wizz A321 and Transavia Boeing 737-800:

Elal Boeing 737-800 (4X-EKP):

Elal Boeing 777-200 (4X-ECF and probably 4X-ECE),
4X-ECF returned to service and 4X-ECE went through a massive cabin upgrade which should provide a similar product to the newer 787s.

Elal Boeing 737-800 (4X-EKK), this aircraft delivered to Elal in February 2020 and never flew since then, hopefully it'll start to fly soon:

TLV airport control tower:

TLV AIRPORT - TERMINAL 3

We arrived to terminal 3 and made our way to the passport control area:

I went pretty fast, unlike my flight from BUD to TLV, this time I finished the passport control process in 3-4 minutes!

Loo review in TLV airport, because… why not? :D

Very clean this time.

I made my way to the baggage claim area, but didn't waste time there, since I traveled with a trolley.

Last photos of terminal 3:

Thanks for reading!