An early morning flight on a narrow bodied aircraft on an airline not renowned for being amongst the world’s leading airlines. My expectations were low. Then I stepped on board.
Egypt Air – not what I was expecting!
#EgyptAir #flightreview #businessclass
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The food trolley is a nice feature
Awesome service for a fairly short flight.Hope you got
Some sleep. Cheers mate ….safe travels…. Charles
What makes Abu Dhabi so bad stems from the fact that it has grown "organically" (in the loosest sense of the word). It doesn't feel like anyone has done any traffic management. Everything is all over the place e.g. lounges are in the wrong terminal.
Egyptair is fine as long as you are not Egyptian 🤣
Great to see you – hope you are well – Kevin & Cyndy UK
Great job Dennis! Yeah I’ve only had to do that a few times where I’m like “I’m not going to make a trip report about this one” and then I think “well it’s a nice new cabin and a Frontier A320neo! Sure why not make a trip report!” 😂😂 I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND your odd Intro but o get why. Sometimes you just want to sleep but you try to stay up to film! Anyways great job Dennis and Egyptair 🇪🇬 certainly looks nice especially on their newer fleet of A320/321 neo and A220 fleets over their older B737-800s… I wish they’d stick with the 737 and ordered the B737 MAX family however. Also I did still love your video on Egyptair “Flying Back Into History” on their B737-800. However I’m sorry to say it but their fabulous livery looks great on any aircraft even the A320/21 neo and especially the GORGEOUS A220! I do still like the old design and classic look of the 737s though!😅
All that aside great job as I’ve come to expect my friend! Finally at 2:51 the Egyptair A320neo cabin looks a lot nicer that the QANTAS Business Class cabin on their 737-800s and reminds me a lot of your flight on United Airlines A319 First (Really Business) Class trip! 😊That’s one thing American carriers do pretty well, the seats on their aircraft are much better and nicer feeling than overseas from what I’ve found.
Cheers 🥂 Dennis!
-Caleb
Egyptair is amping up for sure. Love to see it.
Thanks Dennis. enjoy your time in Egypt. When do we get to see another blooper?
Can I travel with your group if I am from Canada?
Thank you for the video!
Excellent review as always Dennis!😸
wow, this is incredible. now we need short haul business like this in Europe hahaha
Airlines which prioritize religion over anything else – like Egyptair – are to be avoided like the plague. But hey, to each their own.
It always better when it is a pleasant surprise rather than an unpleasant one. Thanks for taking us along!
I love your content. I hate the "I was shocked"…"Not what i was expecting".. wacky shocked face in thumbnail. You are miles better than that.
Best captains in the world:) go Egypt air
Dennis I have really loved your videos the last couple of yrs.i look forward to your next ones.
From Alex in Newcastle NSW.
Great review Den, they have lifted their game in recent years
I flew Egypt Air business last month. Better than post covid Emirates on the 777.
airbus three hundred and twenty 💀💀😂
Make videos about something else besides planes
I flew with them about 3 weeks ago. Check in agent scammed me.
I couldnt buy an extra bag online so I tried at the check in desk. No of course they wont take a credit card but there's an atm in the arrivals area. So old mate escorts me past all the security to an out of order atm. Eventually he accepts his 800EGP in a mix of AUD, CHF, and CLP, basically all the loose notes I could scrounge out the bottom of my bag. Gets me to count it three times, writes out all the exchange rates, "I get you receipt". Then about 10s before I step on to the plane he hands me a badly photocopied receipt for 50EGP.
EgyptAir is unfortunately a hit-or-miss airline. Most of the staff are well-intentioned, but it's clear there's a lot of organisational issues as well as budgetary issues that hinder them from excelling. EgyptAir is a dry airline which is simply inexcusable given Egypt's cosmopolitan history being marred by a rise in often overzealous religiousness. Egypt caters to a lot of western tourists, and they sometimes forget this and miss the mark. Also, I believe Egyptian cuisine needs to be more celebrated. The breakfast option you had looks incredible, but this isn't always the case. Plane maintenance needs to be brought up, and the lounge situation at CAI needs remedial improvements. They need to look at the Gulf carriers and head towards offering that sort of product, perhaps even with a little less over-the-top luxury (they don't need the showers on the planes), but also include more history involved, to cater to Egypt's history.
As a frequent traveller through Abu Dhabi, when you initially said it was the worst airport in the Middle East, I bristled at that thought. Then when you said that it was because it couldnt handle the number of passengers and pointed out the problems with security screening I had to agree.
Having to be rescreened during a transit was frustrating as many of the passengers would treat it as a free-for-all and make a bad system worse.
Having said that, on my last flight I had to fly with a moonboot, and when I got to security, a guard saw my boot, he removed one of the tapes and ushered me through a machine which wasnt being used and screened me through that. He thought that wearing the boot would be a problem but I told him that there was no metal in it so walked through with no beeping and was off to a lounge.
If I was travelling through there and didnt have lounge access, then I would recommend either having a credit card that gives you access to a lounge, joining a service like Priority Pass if they have a lounge there, or paying for access to a lounge if your stopover is long enough to make it worthwhile.
I love Egypt best country
Dennis, I really enjoy your videos. But I'm sorry I don't speak Aussie. I don't know what you were
really saying at 5:39, but the closed caption version was "in a remote cage as well as to poop." LOL
Great to see the new safety video from Egyptair ❤❤ Egyptair is really a fantastic airline now