The forward cabin seats had very little space between them so as a solo traveller there was no privacy really apart from a small head height divider. Forward cabin window seat My middle seat in the mini cabin There were two cabins with the front one having 3 rows of 2-2-2 and the mini cabin with just one row in the same configuration. It turns out this was a 16 year old A330-200 which Aer Lingus acquired earlier this year from Qatar. And then we all sat and waited and waited……Eventually, just about on time we took off.
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Getting back to boarding I drunk my champagne(?) and it was removed with 45 minutes to go to take off. I am assuming she also told the rest of the crew about it too….
To be honest her attitude was like this for much of the flight as you will see (and not just with me). There are ways to approach this and she could have not been confrontational about it. I have no issue if people don’t want to be photographed but the reaction was totally uncalled for. At this point, she did not know that I was a blogger. She then stood over me and made me not only delete it but then go into the deleted items and delete it from there too. She told me quite rudely that I must not take pictures of people without their permission.
I showed her but explained that I was just trying to take the drinks. She immediately came over and asked if I had taken a picture of her and demanded to see my phone. On this flight, I took a picture of the pre-departure drinks which obviously the cabin crew was holding. I have been on hundreds of flights and never once had an issue. Obviously, sometimes people are in the picture but I always obscure or cut out people if they are identifiable if I haven’t asked their permission. As you can imagine I take photos of everything, mainly as an aide memoir rather than taking notes. They came round with pre-departure drinks pretty quickly with a choice of water, juice or I’m guessing what was Champagne. This was where it all started to go wrong. Voya is a reasonably upmarket organic brand and I quite liked the products.
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The amenity kit looked a bit cheap but it had the essentials you would need: socks, eyeshades, earplugs, toothbrush and toothpaste plus some Voya hand cream and lip balm. The cabin crew member was very helpful and found me a seat in the mini cabin in the middle two with no one next to me.Īt the seat was an amenity kit and the menu plus an invitation for the arrival lounge at Dublin. I popped into the galley to ask if there were any other seats available. I was not very happy about it on a night flight given that he would also have to climb over me to get out. Once on board, I could see that I was sitting next to someone with virtually no divide between the seats. There was a choice of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon or Zinfandel for the reds.įor beer drinkers, there were 5 to choose from including Newcastle brown ale and Brooklyn lager.īoarding started pretty early – over an hour before departure which seemed odd given that the flight was quiet.
There was no champagne but there were Prosecco plus Hess Chardonnay and Matua Sauvignon Blanc white wines. The drinks selection wasn’t bad though with a fairly typical selection of spirits and wines for a BA lounge. For everyone else, there were just a few sandwiches and very bizarrely – cold Brussel sprouts!! I know its nearly Christmas but there’s no need to use the leftovers from the Christmas party on the buffet! The buffet – spot the sprouts! This is because BA offer a pre-flight dining for their Club and First customers which I have had before and is normally pretty good. I quite like the lounge but if you wanted to eat before your flight on Aer Lingus there were slim pickings. And with a width of 22 inches, you’ll have plenty of room to stretch out as you dream your way across the Atlantic.” The lounge – cold sprouts anyone?Īer Lingus use the British Airways lounge at Newark. Here is the description from the Aer Lingus website of their A330 business class “High comfort seats – The A330 Business Cabin is furnished with a fully lie-flat 6.5ft long bed. From what he said I was now in an aisle seat on a 2-2-2 aircraft on the window side. I asked him what was going on with the aircraft and what type it was but he didn’t seem to know. The business class check-in was quiet when I arrived and the agent friendly but not particularly clued up. I decided to get to the airport fairly early to see what was going on. I could not change my seat in the check-in process or look at a seat map for some reason. This seat does not exist on any online maps that I can find which left me feeling rather confused. When I checked in it was showing me in seat 3C.
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