any one have experience flying Sky Europe?
Mar 18th, 2007 | 01:34 PM
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We flew from Rome to Prague last summer. Here is an excerpt of my travel report:
We are flying on SKYEUROPE to Prague today. We wait for about an hour in the check-in line. There are a lot of people in line wearing royal blue sweatshirts that say, “Dragon boat championships – Praha 2006”. I figure that Praha means Prague. But, what are dragon boats? Some sort of rowing, I guess.
The flight starts out fine. I am very pleased with myself, because this 1 and ¾ hour flight has cost 102 euros for all 4 of us. About $30 each! The plane is a new 737. It is comfortable, with enough leg room. There is a slight problem when the man in front of me reclines his seat. It seems to be directly in my face, so I have to recline my seat too. But, we’ve experienced this on a few of our flights. You always feel this way, but on some planes it seems to be a little worse than others.
As we begin to make our descent, DS2 tells me that we are flying through the clouds. I am just starting to wake up from a nap, so I am drowsy. Suddenly, there is a very loud noise - BANG - like an explosion, and a bright burst of light. Everyone gasps. Were we just hit by lightning? What will happen now?
I look immediately look for the two flight attendants, to see if they are worried. They are scurrying to their jump seats, which face us. When they turn around to sit down, they are laughing nervously. We all wait to see what will happen next. The flight attendants, conscious of people watching them, laugh and start talking between themselves. They seem on alert, but not particularly worried. So, I relax (a little). When we land a short time later, most people on the plane, including me, clap wildly and loudly. The pilot makes an announcement that we were indeed hit by lightning, but the plane is very well equipped to handle this event and it is not something to be worried about. Well, now you tell us!
The Prague airport is not crowded. It seems to be very modern and fairly small. As we pick up our baggage, we notice that DH’s suitcase is missing the lock, but we don’t think too much about it. Later, he finds out that his stuff has been gone through and a computer game and mouse are missing. We think that it must have happened in Rome, since the luggage came out immediately onto the beltway in Prague.
We are flying on SKYEUROPE to Prague today. We wait for about an hour in the check-in line. There are a lot of people in line wearing royal blue sweatshirts that say, “Dragon boat championships – Praha 2006”. I figure that Praha means Prague. But, what are dragon boats? Some sort of rowing, I guess.
The flight starts out fine. I am very pleased with myself, because this 1 and ¾ hour flight has cost 102 euros for all 4 of us. About $30 each! The plane is a new 737. It is comfortable, with enough leg room. There is a slight problem when the man in front of me reclines his seat. It seems to be directly in my face, so I have to recline my seat too. But, we’ve experienced this on a few of our flights. You always feel this way, but on some planes it seems to be a little worse than others.
As we begin to make our descent, DS2 tells me that we are flying through the clouds. I am just starting to wake up from a nap, so I am drowsy. Suddenly, there is a very loud noise - BANG - like an explosion, and a bright burst of light. Everyone gasps. Were we just hit by lightning? What will happen now?
I look immediately look for the two flight attendants, to see if they are worried. They are scurrying to their jump seats, which face us. When they turn around to sit down, they are laughing nervously. We all wait to see what will happen next. The flight attendants, conscious of people watching them, laugh and start talking between themselves. They seem on alert, but not particularly worried. So, I relax (a little). When we land a short time later, most people on the plane, including me, clap wildly and loudly. The pilot makes an announcement that we were indeed hit by lightning, but the plane is very well equipped to handle this event and it is not something to be worried about. Well, now you tell us!
The Prague airport is not crowded. It seems to be very modern and fairly small. As we pick up our baggage, we notice that DH’s suitcase is missing the lock, but we don’t think too much about it. Later, he finds out that his stuff has been gone through and a computer game and mouse are missing. We think that it must have happened in Rome, since the luggage came out immediately onto the beltway in Prague.
Mar 18th, 2007 | 03:23 PM
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Sep 14th, 2007 | 04:37 AM
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Well, I have a flight from AMS to BUD on Oct 27, 2007, but I'm afraid that Skyeurope kind of left us "high and dry" with respect to returning! I too got us a GREAT rate of about $117 for me and hubby to fly to BUD on Skyeurope and thought I would be able to get us a good price on a return to AMS (from BUD) as soon as the "fall schedule was posted." No luck. They stopped that route and now we are trying to find a way back to AMS!!! Yikes. If I would have known this, I would have made different arrangements to get us to BUD from AMS...like fly straight through on the Delta flight that is taking us to AMS from SMF!!!!
Live and learn, huh?
Dawn
Live and learn, huh?
Dawn
