Hi all,
I was flying from Toronto to Athens with a stopover in Rome back in December 2011. Since I did not take many pix from Toronto to Rome I'm also including the pictures of Rome to Athens in this FR.
Back then Toronto was served with Alitalia's Boeing 767, which was not popular at all by people and most people tried to avoid connecting through Rome. You can see the cabin in pix below, which was very old and ugly. Nowadays they are serving Toronto with their A330, which is great and very nice and I have a trip report about it if you look under my profile.
Below are pix from Toronto airport
Our plane
Very old Cabin- we got lucky and got the emergency exit seats as they had more leg room
The meal was ok
Map of the Rome's satelllite terminal
Dome plane spotting till our flight to Athens
We were bussed to the plane
Nice and comfortable cabin
Take off
Beautiful scenery on approach to Athens
Some pictures of the beautiful city of Athens
Monasteraki Square- The city's main square
Views from Mount Lycabettus- Very beautiful and organized
Athen's Ermou- Main Pedestrian area
Olympic Stadium
Acropolis Area
The new Acropolis Museum
The Parthenon (Main structure)
Views over central Athens
A very cute sales person :)
Hope you enjoyed this FR :)
Wow, I had almost forgotten Alitalia had 767s...that cabin is ancient! LOL. Good thing you had exit row seats! The meal looks pretty decent--better than what you would get on a US airline anyway. It's crazy when the short haul flight has more comfortable seats than the long-haul. That happened to me before when I got stuck with an AF 77W in 3-4-3, it was terrible. I was connecting to an A320 to IST and it was such a relief to get out of those seats and on the wider A320 seats. You would think it should be the other way around!
Thanks for sharing this report. Nice pics of Athens.
Thanks so much Kevin, yes I wonder why the long haul seats are more cramped than the short haul. I wish they did something about it as they are getting more narrow each day. Yes, the AZ catering was good and besides the ancient looking interior it was overall a good flight :)
Beautiful report with great images as usual. The bonus feels like a personal tour.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much Jetsetpanda. I'm glad you liked the pictures :)