#22 out of 22 Low-cost airlines A minimum of 10 flight-reports within the past two years is required to appear in the rankings.
395 reviews
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:
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:
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!
Ryanair service is so consistent, that I can copy here any previous conclusion about them, and you probably won't notice :)
The flight was uneventful and everything was fine.
We arrived to TLV airport before the scheduled time and the flight attendants were nice.
I think that the buy on board prices are reasonable and the variety is good, but the panini and the coffee taste was awful, so I reduced the score.
FCO airport was very nice.
I think that I couldn't see it's full potential, if my flight was a late one, definitely I could visit more shops and enjoy it.
Still, the services in the airport were pretty good even on those strange hours, the airport was clean and everything went fast.
The only downside I could find was the distance to the gate, so I reduced the access score.
TLV airport experience this time was flawless! (As it turned out, this was the case also with our flight in June 2023, so probably they recruited more workers since my last horrible experience in June 2022)
Everything went fast, the airport was clean, what else do you need?
1 Comments
Haha yes, that's a good thing.
Thanks for sharing
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